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Dr. Paul Schwartz, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for more than eight years, has been selected to be the next Dean of Academic Affairs at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. 
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Graduate students in SUNY Fredonia's speech pathology program gave hearing tests to180 athletes at the Special Olympic Fall Games in Binghamton, N.Y., in October
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Alberto Rey (visual art and new media) was a panelist...

Adrienne McCormick (English) will present a paper...

Aimee Nezhukumatathil (English) was the visiting writer...

P. Michael Gerholdt and Sally Crist (Information Technology Services) are presenting the session...

Jeanette McVicker (English) contributed a review chapter...

Amy Cuhel-Schuckers (Research Services) presented the break-out session...

Joseph Baxter (Information Technology Services) has been certified...

Christopher Taverna (ITS Help Desk) has been certified...

William Brown (biology), with a team of three (former) Fredonia undergraduates, published the paper...

Len Faulk (Center for Rural Regional Development & Governance) has been appointed...

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This fall, the national Alpha Lambda Delta honor society added SUNY Fredonia to its list of more than 250 chapters throughout the U.S., which support students who excel in their first year of college.

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Friday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. in Fenton Hall Room 105, Fredonia graduate Erion Plaku (computer science, 2000) will return to campus from his studies at Rice University to discuss motion planning and how it applies to robotics.  The lecture is open to the public.
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Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Malcolm Nelson is currently working on an anecdotal study of the longest highway in the United States. It is this road, U.S. 20, which he takes to work every day, and indeed, offers him an exceptionally personal vista of human traffic going east or west as it passes by the front door of his home in Brocton, N.Y.   SUNY Press has selected Dr. Nelson's book, Twent West: The Great Road Across America, as one of its books to be published in 2007.

Dr. Malcolm Nelson

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Vice President for Academic Affairs Virginia Horvath announced that the professional education programs at SUNY Fredonia have been fully accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
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Employees of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) visited SUNY Fredonia on Tuesday, Oct. 24, to learn about Fredonia's success in migrating to the ANGEL Learning System in preparation for the SLN’s upcoming migration to ANGEL.

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SUNY Fredonia and the City of Dunkirk will jointly hold a News Conference on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. to announce the site location for the SUNY Fredonia High Tech Incubator. The news conference will be held on the vacant lot on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, N.Y., between Second and Third Streets.
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The Alumni Association honored stellar graduates, many athletes, and remembered deceased friends, as Fredonia celebrated its annual Homecoming Weekend Oct. 20, 21, and 22.  The Class of 1981 came together for its 25th reunion, and the Communication Department celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding. Students elected Patrick Newell and Lisa Meyers as Homecoming King and Queen.
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Former Fredonia State coach and administrator Dr. Thomas Prevet, women’s soccer player Kristi (Buntich) Wiley, baseball player Joe Caso, and cross country and track and field athlete Todd Grady will be inducted into the SUNY Fredonia Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 21.
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Over 60 faculty, staff, and students at SUNY Fredonia have volunteered to examine certain dimensions of the first-year of college as experienced at SUNY Fredonia in order to help students succeed in college.  SUNY Fredonia has teamed up with Foundations of Excellence (FoE) in the First College Year in order to examine the freshman first-year experience.  FoE will be used to conduct a self-study to look at a variety of dimensions of the freshman year. 
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Selected student ensembles from the Fredonia School of Music will perform four, half-hour Children’s Concerts on Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m. starting Oct. 28 in the multi-purpose room of the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk.  Planned with the help of Fredonia faculty who are experts in music and education, the concerts will introduce very young audiences (from infants to 6 year-olds) to musical instruments.
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 As nations across the planet come to grips with the realities of global warming, power plants that burn fossil fuel and send carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are regarded as probably the single most significant human contributors to the problem. At the same time, the world depends on the energy they produce.

Among the engineers, scientists, academics, politicians, and CEOs who are seeking solutions to the power plant challenge is Professor Peter Reinelt, above, who teaches economics at SUNY Fredonia. He studies the economics of investing in new power plants when decision-makers are surrounded by regulatory uncertainty. So far, governments, especially at the federal level, have not committed themselves to legislation that would limit how much carbon dioxide plants are allowed to release.

“No one wants the climate to change, obviously,” Dr. Reinelt said. “There’s really only one reason the government and industry aren’t racing to stop carbon emissions, and that’s the perceived cost.” 

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