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Trio to receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence
Alyson Baumann, Avril King and Caroline Schettler, seniors at Fredonia who excelled in the classroom and collectively have six academic majors and two minors, will receive the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Practice interviews for health professions students go online
There’s a new twist to practice interviews conducted every year by the Fredonia Health Professions Advising Committee for students who will be applying to health professional schools. Like classroom instruction that resumed this week, these sessions were done online.
Emeritus faculty member shares positive messages through music
Fredonia Department of Communication Professor Emeritus Dan Berggren, also an Adirondack folksinger for 45 years, has joined in the effort to brighten the days of those heeding the directive to stay close to home.
Distance education unfolds at Fredonia
With the spring semester resuming, students, faculty and staff at Fredonia are settling into an online distance education model that was developed and put into place in remarkably short order so learning will continue during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Fredonia combines school leadership instruction into unique online program
School leadership training at Fredonia has been redesigned to create a single direct path for educators already working in K-12 school districts to attain advanced certifications that lead to becoming a school building principal and school district superintendent.
Seed project aims to connect with Distance Education students and restore Chestnut trees
Every spring semester at Fredonia, about 25 prospective elementary school teachers nurture American chestnut seedlings that could contribute to long-term efforts to restore the American chestnut tree in the Eastern United States.
Pratt selected to receive Lanford Presidential Prize
Fredonia native Brigham Pratt has been named the recipient of the 2020 Lanford Presidential Prize from the Oscar and Esther Lanford Endowment of the Fredonia College Foundation.
Environmental Sciences major approved by State Education Department
A stand-alone Bachelor of Science major in Environmental Sciences is one of the newest programs approved by the New York State Education Department for Fredonia.
Summer internships are offered through incubator
The Fredonia Technology Incubator is again offering paid summer internships for Fredonia students advancing an entrepreneurial project.
Senior experiences geology field camp in Hawaii
Fredonia senior Gilian Tytka marked both New Years Eve and her own birthday on the largest volcano on earth.