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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.
After five years of work, History Professor Xin Fan’s edited volume, “Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia," a collaboration with Professor Almut-Barbara Renger of Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, has been published
A painting that had hung in Reed Library for over 30 years will help preserve an important literary archive. The painting by Niko Pirosmani, “Georgian Woman Wearing a Lechaki,” sold Tuesday at Sotheby’s in London for an estimated $2.3 million. The Fredonia College Foundation, which owned the painting, has established an endowment which will invest all net funds generated through this sale to support the prestigious Stefan Zweig collection, as well as Archives and Special Collections in Reed Library, for the benefit of scholars and students who have the remarkable opportunity to study the works of an important writer.
Dr. Nicholas Quintyne of the Department of Biology was used to hearing from former students. However, he had never gotten a request quite like the one he received from Dr. Michael Metzner in early September. Metzner had decided to take a break from his surgical residency in San Antonio and began working as one of the surgical consultants on the set of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Three faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will share the podium to explore “Science in the Age of Alternative Facts” in the Brown Bag lunch series on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at noon in Williams Center Room S204.
An essay written by Dr. Jeff Iovannone on trailblazing Buffalo transgender activist Peggie Ames, who spoke at Fredonia in the late 1970s, appeared in a recent issue of the feminist web publication “The Establishment.”
Dr. Joseph McFall, a professor in the Department of Psychology, was recently invited to speak at the SUNY-sponsored fifth annual Applied Learning Conference.
Patterson Library in Westfield will host a preview screening of “Among the Hemlocks, Fantastic Stories from Fredonia, NY,” a documentary by Roslin Smith, assistant professor of Communication, on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 6 p.m. The film depicts the history of Fredonia using voices of its residents.
Dr. Junaid Zubairi of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences has had a research article published in the Hindawi Journal of Computer Networks and Communications. The article, "IoT-Based Ambulatory Vital Signs Data Transfer System," was published in the November 2018 issue.
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck had two essays published in the “Los Angeles Review of Books.”
English professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck was invited to participate in a one-day symposium, held in Be'er Sheva, Israel, on Oct. 31, devoted to the work and career of the Israeli literary scholar Mark Gelber on the occasion of the latter's retirement.