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Graduate students and undergraduates took two courses this summer offered by SUNY Fredonia's English Department that included an educational trip to London, England. The courses, focusing on women's literature and major authors, were taught by professors Jeanette McVicker and Adrienne McCormick.

 The Professional Development Center will hold orientation for new faculty on Thursday, Aug. 21, featuring information, fun, and learning about the campus and the area. Go to the web page.

“We are extremely happy to declare the 2008 fall term closed, as we prepare to welcome the biggest class —and the strongest, academically, in terms of both standardized test scores and high school averages — the Fredonia campus has ever experienced,” said President Dennis L. Hefner.

The SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator will have a tent at the Chautauqua County Fair, July 21 through July 27, to spread the latest news about the incubator and its newest programs and services.  Incubator staff will be there to provide information about what the incubator can provide to entrepreneurs from throughout the region. They will be offering daily giveaway of SUNY Fredonia merchandise. Learn more about the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator.

A landmark new graduate program will now allow students with a bachelor’s degree in a natural science area of study to more quickly complete requirements for both the initial and professional teaching certifications needed to teach within New York State public schools.

Mathematical Sciences Professor H. Joseph Straight has been named among this year’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Faculty Service. This award is a statewide honor conferred to acknowledge and provide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement.

The naming of the Reed Library addition as the Carnahan-Jackson Center for Learning and Scholarship recognizes the longstanding financial and volunteer support given by the Carnahan-Jackson Foundation to the SUNY Fredonia community over the years, as well as the personal philanthropy and leadership provided by its Board Chairman, David H. Carnahan (in photo), President Dennis L. Hefner announced in May.

SUNY Fredonia's new director of its Professional Development Center is inviting SUNY Fredonia professional and CSEA staff  to an open forum on professional development Tuesday, July 29, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Japanese Garden Room of Reed Library.  

This informal brown-bag event offers employees  the chance to meet with colleagues, fellow employees and the PDC staff, and to help the Center design staff-specific programs for the upcoming year. Dr. Schell will facilitate the brainstorming session. "I promise that we'll have fun!" she said. 

For more information or to answer your questions, contact "Beez" Lea Ann Schell, Ph.D.,  director of the Professional Development Center (716-673-4864).

Visit the Center's website.

A key component of a comprehensive public relations plan designed by senior public relations majors to help the 1891 Fredonia Opera House expand its membership and attract younger audiences has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation

Seventy-two Fredonia State student-athletes were cited by the State University of New York Athletic Conference for their academic achievement during the Spring 2008 semester. Among the honorees were 39 student-athletes named to the Commissioner’s List, for varsity athletes who completed their entire season and maintained a GPA of 3.3 for three semesters.

The Fredonia State Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2008 will include three multiple-choice All-Americans, the Hall's first softball inductee, and a former athletic trainer who now plies his trade with the Buffalo Bills of the NFL.  Hall of Fame committee members meeting in March selected Chris Hughey, Chris Whitmore, Robert Healy, Melanie (Yaskulski) Deemer, and Bud Carpenter (Buffalo Bills trainer, in photo) for induction Oct. 18 on campus.

“Anchors and Gears,” a work created by sculptor Brett Hunter, has been installed in the green space between Mason Hall and Reed Library on the SUNY Fredonia campus. Standing more than six feet tall, it was made from pieces of granite and steel over the course of several months.

Six undergraduates have just finished the first annual six-week study-abroad program in Mexico this summer at the Ollin Tlahtoalli Centro de Lenguas y Cultura Mexicana. Located in Oaxaca, the center is dedicated to preserving endangered Mexican indigenous languages, the teaching of Spanish within a Mexican cultural framework, and the promotion of Mexican culture and traditions.

Local music lovers can feast their ears on magnificent chamber works performed by some of the world’s most talented young artists as The Quartet Program launches its third season in residence at SUNY Fredonia. The internationally renowned Ying Quartet opens the season with a special guest artist recital on June 28.