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SUNY Press to publish Nelson's book on Rt. 20
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Malcolm Nelson is currently working on an anecdotal study of the longest highway in the United States. It is this road, U.S. 20, which he takes to work every day, and indeed, offers him an exceptionally personal vista of human traffic going east or west as it passes by the front door of his home in Brocton, N.Y. SUNY Press has selected Dr. Nelson's book, Twent West: The Great Road Across America, as one of its books to be published in 2007. Dr. Malcolm Nelson
Site for High Tech Incubator to be announced
SUNY Fredonia and the City of Dunkirk will jointly hold a News Conference on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. to announce the site location for the SUNY Fredonia High Tech Incubator. The news conference will be held on the vacant lot on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, N.Y., between Second and Third Streets.
Junior wins first prize at national research conference
Christine Ander First Prize for giving the best oral presentation on went to to junior Christine Ander, a chemistry major from Medina, N.Y., at the...
Global warming: where economics and ecology face off
As nations across the planet come to grips with the realities of global warming, power plants that burn fossil fuel and send carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are regarded as probably the single most significant human contributors to the problem. At the same time, the world depends on the energy they produce. Among the engineers, scientists, academics, politicians, and CEOs who are seeking solutions to the power plant challenge is Professor Peter Reinelt, above, who teaches economics at SUNY Fredonia. He studies the economics of investing in new power plants when decision-makers are surrounded by regulatory uncertainty. So far, governments, especially at the federal level, have not committed themselves to legislation that would limit how much carbon dioxide plants are allowed to release. “No one wants the climate to change, obviously,” Dr. Reinelt said. “There’s really only one reason the government and industry aren’t racing to stop carbon emissions, and that’s the perceived cost.”
Is slavery the world's oldest trade?
Slavery in ancient Egypt Slavery is not a pleasant subject. The suffering of slaves and the brutality of slavery is a black page writ large in American history, and most SUNY Fredonia freshmen come into Markus Vink’s history classes carrying powerful images of slavery as it was practiced in their own country in the 19th century. But, in his research seminar, Dr. Vink takes them on a different journey across time and space. He directs their attention eastward across the Atlantic, across the continent of Africa and into the world of the early modern Indian Ocean. He points them back to a time earlier than the American colonies. Here they find a world in which slaves are already ubiquitous, and where the practice of slavery is traditional. His research has traced slavery as far back as 1500 B.C.E., to the beginnings of (recorded) history and to the times of stateless peoples, hunter-gatherers, and pastoral nomads. Since then, a steady stream of captive humanity continued to flow through the rise and fall of empires, sultanates, confederations and kingdoms “Slavery,” Dr. Vink maintains, “is the world’s oldest trade.”
Geosciences riding crest of new gas boom
Technology is making the difference in modern gas exploration. Dr. Lash studies data from a well already drilled for clues to subsurface characteristics in Western...
Women in chemistry subject of Fall Gathering
Cheryl Campo is the speaker at the Fall Gathering of the Women’s Studies Program on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. Her talk is titled, “Wine, Women and Song…Mixtures, Men and Science,” as her topic.
Sherri Mason has grant to improve air quality models in NYS
Sherri Mason (chemistry) has funding from the Great Lakes Commission to improve and validate an atmospheric model that will predict the movement of pollutants coming into the air from cars, industry, and even Great Lakes evaporation.
Chemistry joins prestigious center for polymer studies
SUNY Fredonia has a $120,000 portion of an NSF grant to Case Western Reserve University as a result of a partnership involving Fredonia's chemistry department, and faculty members Philip Kumler (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) and Dr. Cheryl Campo. The agreement will create undergraduate research opportunities for students, and support research by faculty in the department. More departments at Fredonia may be added in the future.
Researchers shed light on behavior in sexual cannibalism
Approaching a female for sex is tantamount to laying his life on the line, but male praying mantises aren't that willing to die for the chance to mate, Biology Professor William D. Brown and his former graduate student Jonathan P. Lelito reported recently in the The American Naturalist.