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The 10th Annual Student Research and Creativity Exposition will be held Thursday, April 24, from noon to 6 p.m. in the Williams Center. Posters, presentations, displays, performances, and demonstrations will culminate with a keynote address by alumnus Christopher Cahill of George Washington University's chemistry faculty at 4:15 p.m. More than 100 students are exhibiting their work.

A painter, a poet and a biologist will discuss their diverse reasons for caring about water during Earth Week at SUNY Fredonia. An aquatic issues panel on April 23 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in S-104 Williams Center will feature the personal stories, biological research, creative writing and the visual arts of panelists Alberto Rey, Timothy Strakosh, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Several SUNY Fredonia students participated in the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans recently. Of the more than 9,000 scholarly presentations at the gathering, several detailed the research of 12 students from SUNY Fredonia.

Dr. Reneta Barneva, a professor of computer science at SUNY Fredonia, is serving as vice chair of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA) 2008 to be held April 7-9 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Buffalo. She and a colleague from Buffalo State College were designated to organize the event.

Reed Library hosts a touring exhibit of 40 black-and-white photos taken by an African-American photographer who lived and worked in Nebraska in the early 20th century. The exhibit opens March 31 and will feature a guest lecture by Deborah Wills of Tisch School of the Arts (NYI) on April 8.

Three students presented their winning research papers at the Women’s Studies Annual Research Conference on Gender Tuesday, April 1. The guest-speaker of the two-hour event was Asian Studies Scholar Piya Pangsapa of SUNY at Buffalo.

Under the supervision of Dr. Ivani Vassoler (Political Science & International Studies) two SUNY Fredonia students shared their research at the Conference on Latin American Studies that took place on March 7-8 at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore.

In his new book, Raymond Belliotti, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, points to the uncanny connections between the careers and lives of nine baseball greats and the philosophies of the great thinkers of the West. For example: the rise, fall, and redemption of Mickey Mantle demonstrated aspects of faith, reason, and human response crafted by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Art Historian Leesa Rittelmann will present the talk, “Feminism, Fascism and Nazi Photographs of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen,” on Wednesday, April 2, at noon in S104 of the Williams Center as part of the College of Arts and Humanities’ “Brown Bag Lecture Series.” The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Rittelmann is the co-organizer with Professor Tom Loughlin of this spring’s Arts and Humanities symposium, “Leni’s Legacy: Art, Ethics and Propaganda.”

The history and culture of Jews, whose numbers were quite small in a part of the world dominated by Roman Catholicism, has been frequently ignored in general studies of Europe during the Middle Ages. Over the course of more than 300 pages, Dr. Steinberg’s book seeks to correct the record through introductions to Jewish thought, history and texts.

Olga Bogatyrenko, Assistant Professor in Political Science will be the featured speaker at the Social Science Colloquium on Friday, March 14, at 3 p.m. in Room E359 Thompson Hall.  The title of her talk is “Amazing Transformations: When do Great Powers Successfully Transform Their Power”? This presentation will focus on evaluating America’s current international standing in light of its performance along several economic, political and military dimensions.

The public relations curriculum at SUNY Fredonia has selected two agencies for its eighth annual 2008 Community Partners program. In the senior capstone course, Public Relations Management, students will develop strategic campaigns to benefit Literacy Volunteers of Chautauqua County and the 1891 Fredonia Opera House, local nonprofit organizations facing public relations challenges.

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."