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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.
“My heart’s there in Ukraine, but I can’t be there to help, so I want to do all that I can. I can’t imagine what my family and friends are going through right now.” That’s the driving force behind the humanitarian aid campaign Christina Witters, a junior Biology major from Rochester, N.Y., is conducting at SUNY Fredonia to support Ukrainians.
Fredonia students were not able to staff medical brigades in Honduras during the semester break, but the university’s connection to the Central American country remains intact even during the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to Department of Biology Department Chair and Professor Ted Lee and four alumni.
Students can get an inside track on research projects, upper-level course electives and other learning opportunities in the Department of Biology at an informal gathering on Friday, Feb. 18.
A fundraiser – featuring works of art created by more than a dozen area artists – is underway to raise money to purchase medicine and medical supplies that SUNY Fredonia students will take along with them to Honduras in 2023, where they serve on medical brigades that provide needed health care.
Courtney Campese, a junior Biology major with minors in Chemistry and Public Health from Lancaster, N.Y., has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship to support her Spring 2022 study abroad experience at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
A team of SUNY Fredonia administrators and faculty representing science and business departments recently toured the new Athenex biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Dunkirk to learn about potential opportunities it may offer to students and professors.
Summer research is returning, with seven undergraduate and graduate students scheduled to gain valuable experience working alongside Biology faculty, thanks to funding provided by the Holmberg Foundation and the Joseph and Jane (Schuster) Biology Endowment for Scholarship and Research.
Health profession schools, doctoral programs and research are among the varied destinations of 19 students who are graduating or have recently graduated with science degrees offered at Fredonia
Students who have already been accepted to or who plan to attend health professional schools will explore a variety of topics related to enrolling at these schools at a panel discussion on Thursday, May 6.
A team of research scientists that included Fredonia Department of Biology Associate Professor Courtney Wigdahl-Perry led a panel discussion to provide information on water quality research they have conducted at Chautauqua Lake.