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By Christine Hanson McKnight Fine Arts Sculpture Studio: The contractor, David Christopher of Clifton Park, has begun clearing the site and preparing it for construction. The $4.155 million project is on the east side of campus. UPD Building: The University has taken acceptance of a part of the new University Police Department Building related to communications. A formal turnover of the building is tentatively set for June. For tours of the building, call Diana Reid at 442-3441. Western Avenue Move: The first furniture deliveries for the second floor of 2 University Place were scheduled to occur this week. Parking lot striping is now complete. Renovations are now nearing completion on 2 University Place and another building, 1215 Western Avenue, to house an estimated 300 University employees. Those employees are scheduled to make the move from the Administration Building in the coming weeks to clear the way for conversion of the Administration Building into academic space. For complete details on the move, go to http://chef/fab.albany.edu/move. Western Avenue “Domino” Projects: The University will soon begin implementing a series of projects related to the Western Avenue moves. The work includes painting and other rehabilitation work at the Performing Arts Center, the current offices of University Relations and Information Systems, and Academic Computing and the Computing Center. Seating and carpeting will be replaced in the PAC’s Recital Hall over the summer. Parking Study: The University is in the process of hiring a consultant to study long-term traffic patterns and parking needs. Steve Beditz chairs a 10-member committee charged with responsibility for reviewing the issue. Library East Paving Improvements: The University will undertake this summer a number of improvements affecting the promenade on the east side of the new library. These include creating more handicapped spaces and making the roadway available for limited delivery access. Richardson Hall: The second floor of Richardson Hall on the downtown campus will be repainted and carpeted over the summer. The work is similar to improvements to the first floor last summer. Husted Hall: Plans are under way to convert much of Husted Hall, also on the downtown campus, into classroom space. The work will include installation of state-of-the-art electronic classrooms and one or two larger lecture rooms. No timetable has been set. |
Professor Mary Beth Norton, a well known historian
in early American and women’s history from Cornell University, will give
the annual Janice D. and Theodore H. Fossieck Lecture on April 27 at 4
p.m. in Campus Center 375. There will be a reception on the second
floor of Ten Broeck Hall, Dutch Quad, in the East Well area after
the lecture. The lecture, titled “Sex, Religion, and Society in Early America;
or, a 17th-century Maryland Ménage a Trois and its Consequences,”
is open to the public.
Norton was educated at the University of Michigan,
where she received a B.A. with high honors in 1964, and Harvard University,
where she earned an M.A. (1965) and a Ph.D. (1969). Since 1971 she
has taught at Cornell University, where she is now the Mary Donlon Alger
Professor of American History.
A specialist in early American and women’s history,
Norton has written The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England,
1774-1789 (1972); Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of
American Women, 1750-1800 (1980; 1996); and Founding Mothers &
Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996).
She is co-author of the basic American history textbook, A People and a
Nation, is co-editor of two volumes of original essays and one compilation
of reprinted articles and documents on American women’s history, and served
as the general editor for the American Historical Association’s Guide to
Historical Literature (third edition, 1995). She has written scholarly
essays for such journals as the American Historical Review, Signs, and
the William and Mary Quarterly. She is currently working on a new
study of what she calls the “Salem Witchcraft Crisis” of 1692.
Norton has held numerous research fellowships, including
ones from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation
and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She has also been awarded
the Allan Nevins Prize for the best-written dissertation in American history
(1970), the Berkshire Conference Prize for the best book by a woman historian
(1981), and four honorary degrees. Her most recent book, Founding Mothers
& Fathers, was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in
history. Active in professional associations, she has been a member of
the council of the Organization of American Historians and vice-president
for research of the American Historical Association. She served as a presidential
appointee on the National Council for the Humanities, 1978-1984.
Theodore Fossieck was a retired principal of the
former Milne School in Albany. He endowed the annual lecture and dedicated
it to topics related to Colonial and Revolutionary history.