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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Creating a 3D skull collection basically from scratch – made particularly unique because it’s a collaborative project engaging students enrolled in seemingly distant academic areas – is opening new educational opportunities at SUNY Fredonia.
Research compiled by eight SUNY Fredonia geology, earth science, environmental sciences, computer science and sculpture students and one recent graduate, with guidance from faculty members, will be on display at the Earth Science Student Forum at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Assistant Professor Wentao Cao had his research paper, “Exhumation of an Ultrahigh-Pressure Slice from the Upper Plate of the Caledonian Orogen – A Record from Titanite in North-East Greenland,” published in the journal Tectonics.
Students and faculty in the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences presented research at the 2024 Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeastern (NE) Section Meeting held in Manchester, NH, March 16 to 19.
The Devonian (about 355-415 million years ago) was when the clam shrimp — a still-living group of crustaceans that can be found in western NY — first appeared in the fossil record.
SUNY Fredonia students and faculty from the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences will host an outreach booth at the Buffalo Geological Society’s 54th annual Gem Mineral Fossil Show in Hamburg, NY, on March 16 and 17.
Dr. Thomas Hegna of the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences will deliver a lecture in-person in Denver, CO, “Tales told by Trilobites” at the Thursday, March 7 Earth Science Forum at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Summer job and internship opportunities will be introduced at a workshop conducted by Biology and Geology and Environmental Sciences faculty on Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Assistant Professor Wentao Cao co-authored a new research paper, “Identifying Serpentine Minerals by their Chemical Compositions with Machine Learning,” published in the journal American Mineralogist.
Assistant Professor Matthew Purtill co-authored a multidisciplinary article, "Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven.”