News Releases - December 2006
AIDS: 25 Years
Later Focus of UAlbany School of
Public Health Community Forum
Third Thursday
Breakfast Broadcast (T2B2) available
free online at 9 a.m. on Dec. 21
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 18, 2006)
-- A 25-year retrospective of
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS) will be the focus of a Third
Thursday Breakfast Broadcast (T2B2)
on December 21 from the University
at Albany's School of Public Health.
The program will include interviews
with Frank J. Oldham, Jr., the
executive director of National
Association of People with AIDS and
Doug Fish, M.D., the medical
director for the AIDS Treatment
Program at Albany Medical Center.
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UAlbany's Center for Technology in
Government Announces Selection of
Four International Working Groups on
Digital Government Research
Financial
Support to Foster International
Research on Global Collaboration,
Urban Livability, Citizen
Participation, and Public Health and
Safety
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 15, 2006)
-- The University at Albany's Center
for Technology in Government (CTG)
has selected four groups of
international researchers to receive
funding to advance digital
government (DG) research on issues
that cross national boundaries. The
groups were chosen through a peer
review of proposed research programs
that would benefit from close
collaboration of U.S. and
international partners.
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UAlbany
Challenges Campus to Read
Project chooses Elizabeth Kolbert's
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
for
2nd annual cross-campus read
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 14, 2006)
-- University at Albany Officer in
Charge and Executive Vice President
for Academic Affairs Susan Herbst
has launched the second annual
University at Albany Reading
Project, a program to engage the
entire University community in
reading a common text. The
undertaking is designed to bring all
students, faculty, and staff
together for reflection, analysis,
and debate, reinforcing the
University's shared enterprise as an
intellectual community.
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Elder Network Receives Boost from
Governor and State Legislators
State provides
$800,100 for programs to assist
Capital Region seniors
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 13, 2006) -- The Governor and Legislature today
announced $800,100 in state funding
for the Elder Network of the Capital
Region (ENCR), based at the
University at Albany's School of
Social Welfare, to establish
programs to create sustainable,
aging-prepared communities from
which exemplary practices will serve
as models to augment New York's
long-term care policy reform
initiatives.
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Expert Advisory: UAlbany's Anxiety
Disorders Research Program Offers
Tips to Curb Holiday Stress
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 13, 2006) --
The shopping, parties, decorating
and general bustle of the holidays
produces, for many, more stress than
pleasure. John P. Forsyth, director
of the University at Albany's
Anxiety Disorders Research Program,
offers the following simple tips and
reminders for dealing with holiday
season stress:
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Media Advisory:
State Announces Support of Elder
Network of the Capital Region
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 11, 2006) -- Governor George E. Pataki (invited)
and members of the State Legislature
join Susan Herbst, Office in Charge
of the University at Albany, to
announce significant state funding
to support the Elder Network of the
Capital Region.
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UAlbany Announces
Commencement, Dec. 10
Hon. Richard C.
Wesley, an alumnus, will give the
keynote address
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 7, 2006) -- The University at Albany will hold
its Winter Commencement on Sunday,
December 10, 1 p.m. at the SEFCU
Arena on the uptown campus.
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