The Graduate Studies Office and Faculty Student Association are sponsoring a Graduate Student Symposium Conversations across the Disciplines, entitled, "Sustaining our Futures." The event is Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Houghton Hall's first floor loungeThe entire campus community is invited to share in this interdisciplinary discussion between students, faculty and alumni on sustainability.
Graduate Alumni Keynote speakers and their talks are Beth Ann Dryer (Nurturing Self-Efficacy Producing your own Future) and Christine Marie Battista (Ecologies of Exception: A Genealogy of American Eco-Exceptionalism and Empire in 19thCentury America).
Ms. Dryer is the Literacy Instructional Specialist for Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES. She was also a Peace Corps volunteer and served as a ESP Program Specialist to the US Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She received her M.A./B.A. in English from SUNY Fredonia in 1991 & 1993.
Ms. Battista is currently finishing her Ph.D. dissertation in English at Binghamton University where she has earned 3 major awards. She is an English M.A./B.S. 2003-2005 Communication alumna of SUNY Fredonia.
Other Symposium Highlights:
- Round table presentation of current student papers
- Student poster session
- Graduation School Preparation Workshop
