The Leader

Fredonia science professor selected to governor’s water protection committee

Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN HART Special to The Leader Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry, a biology professor at SUNY Fredonia, has been selected for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s steering committee for combating harmful algal blooms (HABs) in several lakes throughout New York state. Alongside a panel of nationwide experts, Wigdahl-Perry is scheduled to attend a summit...

Fredonia professor receives international recognition

Reading Time: 3 minutes  VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor     The issue of plastic pollution is starting to be taken seriously, and it’s partly thanks to Sherri Mason, the chair of Fredonia’s Geology and Environmental Sciences department. As an affiliate of Orb Media, the non-profit activist organization against plastic pollution, Mason was...

Cutting the ribbon KM3 Studios and Fredonia Video Game Development Club open their alphas to public

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Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor     Just in its second semester, Fredonia’s Video Game Development Club has gathered a following that some clubs spend years building. Last Wednesday, the club and Kermit Mitchell III (the club’s founder and president) presented an alpha video game testing, open to the public. Two...

Sigma Tau Delta: Linking education with community

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer   On March 30, Sigma Tau Delta hosted an open mic night at the 21 East Bookstore in Dunkirk. The bookstore is almost hidden in a brick building on East Second Street. However, once inside, you’ll notice the store is open and inviting with comfy chairs...

Governor Cuomo suggests his SAFE Act be adopted nationwide

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor     Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of D.C. Saturday in support of gun law reform. Marchers came together in light of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month which left 17 students and faculty dead and many more...

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