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UAlbany in the News
by Lisa James Goldsberry (April 8, 2004)
� The March 8 edition of The Boston
Globe featured information about Albany Nanotech.
�Nanotech Being Seen as Next Big Thing: States, Colleges
Jockey for Research Dollars� discussed how a few years
ago every state wanted a �silicon� of some sort and
today everyone wants �nano.� According to the article,
New York has spent more than $200 million to transform
UAlbany into a nanotech research center and attract
companies, such as International Sematech, the semiconductor
industry research consortium, to Albany. Nanotech initiatives
have been launched in at least 25 states. �Companies
are likely to concentrate in established technology
centers, which offer not only research capacity, but
also entrepreneurial networks, venture capital, and
professional support services that turn research into
commercial products,� according to an author of a Brookings
Institution study who was quoted in the piece.
� The March 12 issue of The New
York Times featured quotes by Nadieszda Kizenko,
a professor in the Department of History. �Heading Home
After 55 Years in America: Russian Icon Stopping in
New York for Three Days of Veneration,� focused on the
miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Tikhvin and
its journey back to Russia. Beyond its long history,
church officials and scholars see the icon as a potent
symbol of Russian national feeling and the resurgence
of the Russian Orthodox church after the fall of communism.
�They�re not just pious things. These are icons that
are connected with wars and victories,� Kizenko was
quoted as saying.
� A March 21 story sent on the United
Press International wire featured information
on research done by Benjamin Shaw of the School of Public
Health. �Parents Can Affect Child�s Future Health� focused
on a new analysis done by Shaw and his colleagues from
the University of Michigan. They investigated whether
the health effects of parental support during childhood
persist throughout adulthood into old age. They found
a connection between lack of parental support during
childhood and increased levels of depression, hypertension,
arthritis, and other chronic health problems. The study
of 2,905 men and women, ages 25 to 74, was reported
in the March issue of Psychology
and Aging. Stories on the study also appeared
in the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
the Palm Beach Post, and
several other news outlets.
� The April 2004 issue of Psychology
Today magazine featured quotes by Scott South
of Sociology. �The New Trophy Wife� discussed how alpha
women are highly sought-after partners in business and
in marriage. It mentioned South�s research examining
the characteristics most desirable to black and white
men, ages 19 to 35, in which he found that a woman�s
ability to hold a steady job mattered more than her
age, previous marriages, maternal status, religion,
or race. Men were more willing to marry women with more,
rather than less, education than they themselves had.
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