 Sloan Foundation Award winner Ing-Nang Wang/Photo by Mark Schmidt |
UAlbany Biology Professor
Wins Sloan Foundation Award
Assistant Professor of Biology Ing-Nang Wang is among the outstanding
young scientists and economists who have been chosen to receive the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellowship. Full
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Albany Third
in Nation as Educational Hub
The Albany region is tops when it comes
to education, according to a February 14 article in Forbes magazine
that was based on research done by the Places Rated Almanac,
Millennium Edition. The Albany-Schenectady-Troy region rated No. 3,
after the Raleigh-Durham Chapel Hill area and Boston, Mass.
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Kennedy’s Roscoe Nominated
for a 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award
The finalists for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner
Award are: Roscoe by William Kennedy (Viking Press), executive
director and founder of the New York State Writers Institute and a faculty
member in the
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UAlbany Department of English; The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron (FSG); The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle (Crown); The Caprices by Sabina Murray (Mariner); and Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino (Coffee House Press).
The judges, Gail Godwin, Valerie Martin, and Alexs Pate, looked at 357 novels and short story collections published in the U.S. by more than 90 publishing houses, including small and academic presses.
The winner will receive $15,000; the four finalists will receive $5,000 each. The authors will be honored during the 23rd An-nual PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 17.
MindGenix Helps Drug Firms
in Alzheimer’s Research
The economic engines continue to rev up at the University at Albany’s
East Campus. Since last summer, MindGenix Inc. (USA), a small startup
company, has been operating at the campus’s business incubator for biotechnology.
MindGenix, managed by David Pushett, chief operating officer, offers contract research services to firms that develop pharmaceuticals to combat neurological ailments, especially the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Full Story