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Asia is next on the list for Catherine Riedesel's global plans.

Catherine Riedesel of Ripley, N.Y. has received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 to support her semester abroad studying at the College Consortium for International Studies in Bangalore, India.

Currently a junior at SUNY Fredonia, where she is majoring in social studies education, Ms. Reidesel’s plans for the spring semester are helping to fulfill a personal goal she has to visit every continent on the globe. She has already been to North and South America, Europe, and Africa. 

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The Office of Payroll Services presented its Outstanding Student Employee Service awards to three seniors for their job performance during the Fall 2006 semester.  The winners are Tara Graves, a criminal justice major from Forestville, N.Y., who worked in the President’s Office; Lauren Kicak of Lancaster, N.Y., a childhood education major with an English specialty, who worked in the Human Resources Office; and Elizabeth Wilger, a speech and language disabilities education major, who worked in the Office of Student Accounts. Each student received a certificate and a $25 FSA Gift Card.

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SUNY Fredonia named Clark Companies of Delhi, N.Y., specialists in designing and building world-class sports facilities, as its Contractor of the Year during an annual luncheon honoring all companies which did business with the university last year.
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At the American Speech Language Hearing Association national convention (Nov. 18, Miami, Fl.), Dr. Kim L. Tillery and two professional colleagues led the two-hour program, "For the clinicians, by the clinicians re: auditory processing disorders panel group discussion." The Hearing Journal [(2006) 59(6) 32-34] declared an article co-authored by Dr. Kim Tillery to be a “must read” in its recent feature, “The Best of 2005 Diagnostic Audiology.” At the International Council of Psychologists 64th annual convention (Kos Island, Greece), research by a team including Dr. Kim L. Tillery was presented by W.D. Keller in the paper, “Auditory Processing Disorders in Children Diagnosed with Nonverbal Learning Disability.

Bryan Hopkins (visual arts and new media) is curator and author of "Selections from the Annette Cravens Ceramics Collection" exhibition at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College (opening in January). Works by Bryan Hopkins are currently on display at: The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; Mark Palmer Gallery, Paducah, KY; Susan Maasch Fine Arts, Portland, ME; and Pearl Art Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY.

Dr. Bruce Simon (English), currently serving as a Fulbright Fellow at Kyushu University and Seinan Gakuin University, will deliver a paper at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in January entitled "Traumatic Displacements and Militant Mourning: Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Mahasweta Devi’s Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha.

Dr. Jeanette McVicker (English) contributed a review chapter on "Postcolonial Approaches" to Palgrave Advances in Critical Virginia Woolf Studies (edited by Dr. Anna Snaith, King's College, London) forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan. She also presented a paper in September on "Journalism, Subjectivity, Governmentality" at the Media Change and Social Theory conference organized by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Oxford University.

Mark Janik (chemistry) is one of the authors of the article published in Biochemistry this year entitled, “Oxalone and Lactone Moieties of Podophyllotoxin Exhibit Properties of Both the B and C Rings of Colchicine in Its Binding with Tubulin.”
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Dr. Ziya Arnavut in his Fenton Hall office. He has improved on a data compression technique that "losslessly" does the job.

In his 2004 paper published in The Computer Journal, Dr. Ziya Arnavut (computer science) demonstrated that a technique he developed to help compress digital files, known as Inversion Coder, yields superior compression results when used in the second step of a compression algorithm. Recently, Prof. Hidetoshi Yokoo of Gunma University in Japan published an article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in which he theoretically proved Dr. Arnavut’s thesis.

Read the complete news release on Dr. Arnavut.
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