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Eggs from the Permian age

Hegna co-authors published articles that utilized SEM-EDS equipment

Associate Professor Thomas Hegna was a co-author of two articles using SUNY Fredonia's new scanning electron microscope and energy-dispersive spectrometer.

3-D printing of skulls of animals

Multidisciplinary project leads to exhibit this weekend

A project funded through the Fredonia College Foundation speaks to the intersection of science and art.

Dr. Wentao Cao

Assistant Professor Cao gives invited talk in Japan

Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences Assistant Professor Wentao Cao gave an invited talk at the Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University, Japan.

Gregory Holmberg collects a bucket of water along the Lake Erie shoreline for testing by students at Point Gratiot Park.

Education majors work with international students at NASA/GLOBE annual meeting

Two SUNY Fredonia education majors broadened their experience guiding a contingent of students that included 21 from foreign countries during the NASA/GLOBE annual meeting.

Jasper Bateman, looking for fossils in the Devonian Silica Shale during a mid-conference field trip, near Milan, MI. Inset photo of student at poster presentation

Geology student, professor attend paleontological conference

Jasper Bateman, a rising sophomore Geology major from Buffalo, NY, and Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences Thomas Hegna presented their respective research at...

Dr. Thomas Hegna

Hegna to teach at the Paleobiology Database summer workshop

Associate Professor Thomas Hegna will be an instructor at a summer workshop hosted by Paleobiology Database (PBDB), an online database that aims to document diversity...

Reginal Spiller and Tim Zulawski head shots

Commencement speakers include distinguished alumni

Distinguished SUNY Fredonia alumni — Reginal “Reg” Spiller, who is President and CEO of Azimuth Energy LLC and CEO of subsidiary Azimuth GIS-E, and Tim...

Hayden Backus at the scanning electron microscope (SEM) in Houghton Hall

Geology major Hayden Backus receives prestigious DOE fellowship

Hayden Backus, a senior Geology major from Westfield, NY, has been awarded a prestigious Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy.

At work on the 3D skull project in the Houghton Hall Room 233 are Fiona Rigney (center) and Ishaan Prathamesh Rangnekar.

Students create 3D skulls in project funded by Costello award connecting biology, computer science and art

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...