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Bernhard, Murphy and Reese to present at national conference
Three faculty members of the School of Music – Christian Bernhard, Paul Murphy and Jill Reese – will give a presentation at the 56th National...
Students build video game in computer programming competition
On Oct. 12 to 13, six students from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences participated in the programming competition HackUpstate, sponsored by Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego, and hosted at the Syracuse Technology Garden.
Geologist Baird to receive teaching award
Dr. Gordon Baird of the Department of Geosciences at SUNY Fredonia has been selected to receive the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Outstanding Educator Award. He will receive the award on Nov. 4 at a noon luncheon at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown, W.Va.
Neil Feit is co-editor of new book, "Attitudes De Se: Linguistics, Epistemology, Metaphysics"
Philosophy professor Neil Feit has just published a new book, which he co-edited with Italian linguist Alessandro Capone. It is an interdisciplinary collection of new articles, by philosophers and linguists, on special problems in linguistics, epistemology, and metaphysics raised by the first-person perspective (and its linguistic counterpart, the first-person pronoun "I").
College Lodge the focus of upcoming Brown Bag talk
The Fall 2013 Liberal Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Lecture Series will focus on, "Digital Futures: Technology's Promises and Perils." The series offers monthly informal talks by SUNY Fredonia faculty members. Each panel presentation is followed by a brief discussion and refreshments. The series begins on Wednesday, Oct. 9, with a panel on, “What Makes the Forests of the College Lodge Special.”
Iclal Vanwesenbeeck chaired panel at Middle East Studies conference
Associate Professor Iclal C. Vanwesenbeeck is chairing a panel on reproductive health and medicine in Jordan and Egypt in this year's Middle East Studies Association Conference in New Orleans, La., in October.
The 85th Annual Meeting of New York State Geological Association will be hosted by the Department of Geosciences
The 85th Annual Meeting of New York State Geological Association will be hosted by the Department of Geosciences on Sept. 20 to 22 as part of the department’s 50th anniversary celebration. Activities will include five field trips on Saturday and Sunday, and a Saturday night banquet featuring a talk by Dr. Gary Lash.
Sherri Mason's groundbreaking research continues to garner international attention
Sherri Mason, above right, collaborated with The 5 Gyres Institute to track plastic pollutants in Great Lakes. Chemistry Professor Sherri (Sam) Mason continued to traverse...
Sarah Gerkensmeyer travels to promote new book
Visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Gerkensmeyer of the Department of English spent much of the summer promoting her new book, "What You Are Now Enjoying," winner of the 2012 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize and published in February.
With research award, Emily VanDette studies 19th century women writers
As the recipient of the Helen F. Faust Women Writers Research Travel award from Penn State University to support her research in its Special Collections Libraries, Dr. Emily VanDette of the Department of English made two research trips over the summer to consult archival materials for a new project that examines the legacy of 19th century U.S. women writers in literary history.