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Professor Ellen Litwicki, chairperson of the history department at SUNY Fredonia, will present a talk entitled “From Emerson’s ‘Portion of Thyself’ to the Gift Registry: Defining the Gift” during the Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 5, at noon in S104 of the Williams Center. The event is free and open to all campus and community members. Refreshments will be served. 

Two articles by Karry A. Kazial, assistant professor of biology, are in press. Both include SUNY Fredonia students as co-authors.

Linda Dorsten, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Public Health, and Dr. Yuhui Li (Rowan University), are recipients of a Funds for the Advance of the Discipline (FAD) award to continue their study of health in China. Their project is titled, "Data Collection and Modeling in Hard-to-Study but Rapidly Growing Populations:  Socio-Economic Development, Ethnic Population and Elder Health in China." 

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $5,000 grant to SUNY Fredonia to establish a preservation environment monitoring program at the Archives and Special Collections housed at its Daniel A. Reed Library.

Awards for the 2008-2009 cycle of the Carnahan-Jackson Humanities Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation have been announced. A total of $20,350 was awarded to faculty and staff in the departments of history, English, philosophy, theatre, visual arts and new media, and the School of Music and Reed Library.

Assistant Professor Jill Marshall of the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction provided a curricular change to the graduate course, Issues and Trends in Elementary Social Studies Education, which benefitted local social studies teachers.

SUNY Fredonia professor of philosophy, Dr. Dale Tuggy, will present the lecture, “Apparently Contradictory Religious Beliefs,” as part of the university’s Brown Bag Lecture series on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at noon in Williams Center Room S-104.

On Friday, Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101, alumnus Michael Marletta of the U.C. Berkeley chemistry faculty, will present a seminar on his research career, entitled,  "From NO (Nitric Oxide) Signaling to Ligand Discrimination to a Blood Substitute."

More than 50 teachers from area school districts gathered at a workshop hosted by SUNY Fredonia Oct. 9 to 11 to enhance their teaching skills through participation in GEMS, a resource of innovative science and math education developed by the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Khalid Siddiqui, a recipient of the 2007 President’s Award for Excellence at SUNY Fredonia, will explore the topic, “Bridging Disciplines with Computing,” during his lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2 p.m., at the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall.

SUNY Fredonia students, all recipients of grants for summer research, will present reports on their projects on Friday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101 on the SUNY Fredonia campus.

President Dennis L. Hefner has appointed two local businesspersons as leaders of the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator Advisory Committee.

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 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.