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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.

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. 

More than 130 students are following their Fredonia professors abroad to study  art, literature, science, politics, education, architecture, and culture, the International Education Center announced.
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Students at SUNY Fredonia swept the research poster competition at the 47th annual New York State Speech Language and Hearing Association conference, scooping up top awards at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to being formally recognized at the association’s conference, held April 13 in Buffalo, two Fredonia students also received $1,500 scholarships.The competition drew entries from both public and private institutions from across the state.

Revealed in a survey conducted by the State D.E.C. and biologists at SUNY Fredonia recently is that anglers from all over the United States—and even as far away as Europe—travel to Canadaway Creek in hopes of landing a hefty, hard-fighting fish known as the steelhead. The researchers determined that on average each non-resident angler spends $64 per day in the Village of Fredonia and other parts of the county. With the prime steelhead season running from September to December, and again from February to April, that could add up to an impressive flow of dollars into the county’s economy.  In photo, a D.E.C. interviewer queries a fly fisherman in Canadaway Creek.
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Sportfishery of the smallmouth bass in Lake Erie has for years been of considerable economic value to Chautauqua County. In an effort to learn more about the population of this species in the lake and its tributaries, SUNY Fredonia Biology Professors Tim Strakosh and Ted Lee will study the genetic makeup of the smallmouth bass, beginning this summer.  “As far as we know Lake Erie has never been stocked with smallmouth bass, which means that the fishery is based upon a possibly pure, wild strain of smallmouth bass,” Dr. Strakosh said. “To help ensure a healthy fishery we need a good understanding of their population genetics.”
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A major grant to facilitate oil and natural gas exploration by improving an analytical technique used to assess rock formations thought to contain these deposits has been awarded to Gary Lash, professor in SUNY Fredonia’s Geosciences Department. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority awarded just over $131,000 to Dr. Lash to address problems associated with the assessment of thermal histories of Middle and Upper Devonian black shale, an emerging source of hydrocarbons – or natural gas and oil -- in Western New York State and Western Pennsylvania.
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Free testing for hearing, speech-language and vision for all ages will be offered to the public on Saturday, April 28, from 9 a.m. until noon at SUNY Fredonia. In addition testing for ambliopia (lazy-eye in children) will be offered to young children. These screenings will be conducted by The Henry C. Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders, the Chautauqua Blind Association and by members of the Dunkirk-Fredonia Lions Club in honor of Better Speech and Hearing Month that is celebrated throughout May. This testing will take place on the first floor of Thompson Hall where the center is located.
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The Institute for Research in Science Teaching at SUNY Fredonia has been selected as an educational distributor of An Inconvenient Truth, the 2007 Academy-Award winning documentary film on global warming directed by Davis Guggenheim and presented by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

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Belize, a country in Central America struggling with few educational resources and a multitude of social ills, isn’t the first spring break destination of most college students. But it was the choice of a group of SUNY Fredonia students who devoted their entire mid-March hiatus to a service-learning experience far removed from western New York State.  “It was an adventure that I truly believe is life changing,” said Ellie Reddy, professor in SUNY Fredonia’s School of Education. “It is amazing to see and actually experience the poverty, to see life in another culture, to be part of their lives – even for such a short period of time.”

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Jeffrey D. Corcoran of Ballston Lake, N.Y., has been named director of the SUNY Fredonia High Technology Incubator in Dunkirk, N.Y. He is responsible for all aspects of operating the facility, which was created last year with funding from New York State, SUNY, and New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). The incubator is in the design phase and is expected to be built in 2008. Meanwhile, temporary office space has been established in downtown Dunkirk’s Empire Zone and incubator space will be opening shortly. Mr. Corcoran took charge April 2 at offices in the Stearns Building on Central Avenue, and is already involved in developing strategic plans and marketing for the facility

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Alberto Rey of the Visual Arts and New Media Department was one of 11 faculty members from six SUNY campuses to be promoted to Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its March meeting.  The promotion is to a tenured University ranking that is conferred for consistent and extraordinary accomplishment. President Dennis L. Hefner and Professor Rey were both at the meeting in Albany when the appointments were announced.
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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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