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The red carpet -- lined with tours, delicious food and live performances -- will be rolled out during Family Weekend, Sept. 28 to 30, when SUNY Fredonia welcomes parents and family members of its more than 5,000 students to campus. “Family Weekend is a tradition at SUNY Fredonia, and a great time to re-connect students with their loved ones after the busy first month of the semester. There are activities for people of all ages, and we encourage families to visit on this special weekend.”  Registration will be held Friday, 3 to 7 p.m., at the Williams Center. Festivities begin with a buffet with hot hors d’oeuvres and other light fare at the Williams Center, 5 to 7 p.m.

 
Kim Tillery, above, has been selected as one of about a dozen audiologists from the United States to go to China in late September to conduct hearing assessments on thousands of Special Olympic athletes. 

A program to showcase the strength and breadth of the offerings of the State University of New York, “Operation Inform,” will be hosted Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Williams Center at SUNY Fredonia. Attending will be over 100 school guidance counselors from 49 schools within a 100 mile radius of the university. Director of Admissions Christopher Dearth noted, “It is an absolute pleasure to host these high school professionals for SUNY Operation Inform. Not only are we highlighting the value and importance of a SUNY education, we are also showcasing Fredonia.”

Creating “A Burning Desire to Read” is the goal of SUNY Fredonia’s Reed Library in partnership with foundations, schools, and libraries throughout Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties in promoting The Big Read.

The appointment of Alison Barry as the new manager, along with the installation of a computerized ticketing system, are among the recent changes at the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office.

The sixth annual Jurgen P. Banse-Fay Memorial Production Management Intern award at the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center was presented recently to Jeff Mace, a B.F.A. Theatrical Technical Production major at the State University of New York at Fredonia. 

Tina Hastings has been named to head the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Art Gallery . A native of Ohio, she holds a master’s degree in public administration with a museum focus from Southern Illinois University, where she also served as assistant museum curator.

The 18th Annual Early Childhood Conference will be held Saturday, Sept.  29, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., at McEwen Hall.  The annual event is held to offer professional development opportunities to members of the Chautauqua County early childhood community, including teacher education students.

A special multi-media musical tribute featuring the music of alumnus Tony Caramia is the highlight of the Saturday, Sept. 29, dedication of the Steinway concert grand piano resulting from a gift from the Sorel Charitable Organization to the Fredonia School of Music.

The College of Education at SUNY Fredonia has been awarded two federal grants totaling $3 million over the next five years to continue its English Language Acquisition (ELA) program and to also establish the new Bringing Resources that Incorporate Development in General Education (BRIDGE) program. “It’s highly unusual to have two grants funded from the same source to one institution,” said Dr. Barbara Mallette, principal investigator for the Project BRIDGE grant and professor in the Language, Learning and Leadership department at SUNY Fredonia. Both are designed to help schools serve growing student populations whose native language is not English.

Visiting Assistant Professor Gurmukh Singh will present the 2007 Kasling Memorial Lecture, "The Birth and Death of a Star," at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall. The Kasling Lecture recognizes a member of the faculty whose scholarly excellence has enhanced the reputation of the university.

SUNY Fredonia senior Social Work majors Briana Palmer of Silver Creek, Craig Felton of Jamestown, and Jessica Slomiany of Dunkirk will have an opportunity to complete their field placement in a local public child welfare agency, take a course specific to child welfare practice and put their skills to work right after graduation. They are among the first beneficiaries of the New York State Child Welfare Scholarship Program, an effort to recruit high-achieving undergraduate social work students into the field of public child welfare.

Four students from the School of Music were declared the “best of the best” as winners of the annual Concerto Competition, a tradition at Fredonia for decades. After several hours of back-to-back performances on Sunday, ensemble directors and studio faculty deliberated and Assistant Director Barry Kilpatrick announced this year’s winners.

A unique look at hip-hop culture will be presented by activist and documentary filmmaker Byron Hurt during a talk and screening of his film, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” on Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. in Room 202 McEwen Hall. Among the scholars giving on-screen interviews during the film is Fredonia alumnus and author, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, who teaches at Duke University.

The lecture, "Evolution and Design: At the Crossroads of Science and Religion," by Dr. Kenneth Miller will be presented on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. in Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall, as the first event in the 2007-2008 SUNY Fredonia Convocation series with the theme, "Reflections of the Past."

It’s all about volunteering at the upcoming Community Service Fair to be held Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Williams Center. Helping to lead the effort is SUNY Fredonia alumnus Steven Bonanno, an AmeriCorps VISTA employee of the Office of Campus Life and Office of Volunteer and Community Services for the 2007-2008 academic year.

SUNY Fredonia has landed a couple of big fish, so to speak, in Great Lakes environmental research with the receipt of major grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation.  The university, through Dr. Michael Milligan in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a $157,000 grant to purchase state-of-the-art laboratory analytical equipment designed to detect very small concentrations of pollutants in fish, water, sediment and air. 

A concert by internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Goode on Saturday, Sept. 29, is the highlight of a celebration of a special gift by the Elizabeth and Michel Sorel Charitable Organization to the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

SUNY Fredonia is one of 222 outstanding colleges and universities in the Northeast that The Princeton Review recommends to college applicants