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Fall Semester opening info!
It happens every year: you get to campus and you realize you forgot something. It may be a toothbrush. It may be the tuition check. Whatever it may be, you’ll need answers, and you’ll need them fast. The Office of Media Relations has compiled a list below to help expedite the process.
Starbucks makes debut on campus
The 2,400-square foot coffeehouse – reportedly twice the size of many of the company’s stores – opened for business Monday, Aug. 7, to sell the full line of Starbucks coffees, pastries and sandwiches.
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.
Registrar moves for next two years
Office of the Registrar has been relocated until 2008 from Maytum Hall to the Daniel Reed Library. The move is temporary while Maytum Hall undergoes significant heating and cooling renovation. To find the Registrar's Office, visitors can enter the McEwen Hall/Reed Library complex. Signs have been posted to help direct visitors to the proper area.
Groundbreaking Ceremony signifies soccer field project is underway
The natural and synthetic turf fields will be used by 260 men and women in Fredonia’s intercollegiate soccer programs, and nearly 4,000 intramural athletes, not to mention alumni and community members who come on campus to play the sport.
New soccer fields to be world-class
Groundbreaking on July 5 announced the $3.3 construction project creating a new natural grass playing field for the men’s and women’s soccer teams, an artificial turf field for soccer, bleacher seating for 1,000 spectators, and lights for night games.
Welch’s/National Scholarships go to three in county
Each received a $1,000 scholarship for the academic year starting in August.
The Quartet Program announces debut concert season
The Quartet Program, in its 37th season as a seven-week workshop bringing together 36 of the world’s finest young musicians from age 14 to 30...
Three receive SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
English Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Music Professor Karolyn Stonefelt, and former Residence Life Director Harry Watters will accept the SUNY-level honors recognizing superior achievement at the first meeting of the All-Campus Meeting of the Fall 2006 Semester.
Registration open for "Art of Improv"
The week-long workshop, which runs from July 30 through August 4, will be facilitated by world class cellist, improviser, recording artist and Grammy-nominee David Darling.