HIGHLIGHTS
Nominations
Taken until Oct. 15
Nominations for Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Service Professor will be accepted by the President's Office, AD 246, until Friday, Oct. 15. These selective academic ranks are awarded by the State University of New York Board of Trustees to full-time faculty members who meet the highest standards of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
All nominations should be made in confidence.
The complete nomination guidelines are posted on the University's Web page. For more information about the nomination process, contact Richard Farrell, special assistant to the President and assistant vice president for Academic Affairs, at 442-5414.
University Senate Executive Committee
to Meet
The
University Senate Executive Committee will meet Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. in
AD 253. For more information, contact Madelyn Cicero at 442-5406.
Nominations Open for Alumni Association
Awards
The Alumni Affairs Office is seeking nominations for the annual Alumni
Association Awards. Contact Melissa Samuels at 442-3083 for more information.
The Distinguished Alumni
Award honors alumni who have displayed distinctive achievements in their
careers and/or civic involvement.
The Excellence in Alumni
Service Award recognizes outstanding service to the University and/or to
the Alumni Association.
The Citizen of the University
Award salutes non-alumni for exceptional leadership or service to the University
community.
The Excellence in Education
award pays tribute to alumni for extraordinary distinction in the field
of education, including pre-K through post-secondary classroom teaching,
school services and administration. This has been expanded from the Excellence
in Teaching Award.
The Bertha E. Brimmer
Medal honors alumni who demonstrate outstanding teaching ability at the
secondary school level in New York State.
Whistle Watch Expanded
Albany
Medical College and Albany Law School have joined the University's Whistle
Watch safety program this fall. The College of Saint Rose became a partner
last year.
Since the fall of 1993,
the University has distributed more than 20,000 whistles to UAlbany students,
faculty and staff as well as residents in both the Pine Hills and Beverwyck
neighborhoods.
Thomas Gebhardt, director
of Personal Safety & Off-Campus Affairs, said, “As additional colleges
join the Whistle Watch program, more individuals have whistles in their
hands, more people know what to do when they hear a whistle and as a result,
we are all safer.”
This personal
alert program is sponsored by the President's Task Force on Women's Safety,
the Division of Student Affairs and University Auxiliary Services in cooperation
with the Albany Police Department and the University Police Department.
Tour Ireland with the University
Chamber Singers
The
University Chamber Singers will sing their way through Ireland May 26 through
June 3, 2000. The Chamber Singers group is a Department of Music ensemble
made up of 21 UAlbany students, freshmen through seniors. They are led
by David Griggs-Janower, associate professor and director of choral music.
The group will be performing at cathedrals during the evenings, and sightseeing
during the day.
Members have
been raising funds for the trip. The UAlbany Chamber Singers toured Italy
in 1996, England and Wales in 1992, and the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia
in 1988.
“As always, we welcome
additional non-singers who would like to join us,” said Griggs-Janower.
Cost of the trip, which is open to the public, is $2,000. This includes
doubles rooms, the flight and tour bus. Students in quads will pay $1,760.
Among the stops on this
trip are Galway, the Cliffs of Moher, Connemara, Limerick, Killarney, Ring
of Kerry, Cobh, Cashel and Dublin.
For more information,
or to make reservations, contact Griggs-Janower at 442-4167 or e-mail him
at janower@csc.albany.edu.
Griggs-Janower is also
artistic director and conductor of Albany Pro Musica, which has
been selected to perform at the Eastern Division Convention of the American
Choral Directors Association Feb. 18 and 19, 2000, in Baltimore, Md.
The group is a local
semi-professional community chorus that has been aired on National Public
Radio a dozen times in the last five years. When NPR produced its first
CD, Christmas Around the Country, Albany Pro Musica was included.
“It is indeed
an honor for APM to be selected to perform for a thousand choral directors
and singers,” Griggs-Janower said. Choruses are only eligible once every
four years, and Albany Pro Musica has been selected every time they have
auditioned. This will be their fourth Eastern Division Convention.
| University President Karen R. Hitchcock and
State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno joined representatives of
about 60 companies from around the world who gathered in the University's
new library last month for “Chip Fab Hot Link.” The three-day conference,
hosted by the University at Albany and its Center for Advanced Thin Film
Technology on behalf of the Capital Region Semiconductor Task Force, was
aimed at marketing the attractions of the Capital Region as a competitive
location for computer chip fabrication plants. “We want to be your partners,”
Bruno told the group. “You need to tell us what it takes to get you here,
in New York State, in the Capital Region.”
One major focus of discussion was the semiconductor industry's use of foundries, which are subcontracted chip production facilities. Alain Kaloyeros, director of the University's Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, said companies that own chip plants, such as Motorola Corp. or Intel Corp. are selectively getting out of the expensive fabrication process and instead are outsourcing production to foundries. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., which is considering foundry construction in the U.S., was among the companies attending the conference. |
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New Bus Route: CDTA buses are now dropping off and picking up passengers at a new location at the heart of the campus, just west of the new library. The new route provides main line bus access directly to the Campus Center and the new library. University buses also make stops at the location, which is proving to be popular with students and others who want to travel to the center of campus quickly. The new service started Sept. 1 with a "maiden voyage" ride taken by four administrators of the University's Facilities Management Office and student Diana Reid, who is a project coordinator for Facilities Management. The four administrators were Assistant Vice President Don Delmanzo, who conceived and developed the bus connection; Director of Facilities Management Mark Reynolds, whose office supervised the construction contracts; Assistant Director of Physical Plant Carol Perrin, who developed the support agreement with CDTA; and Elena McCormick, project manager. Landscaping: Now that work on Perimeter Road and expanded parking areas is nearly complete, Bohl Construction is putting the finishing touches on the landscaping along the roadways and parking lots. The work includes planting trees and shrubs, and grass. The expanded parking areas will contain lawn and trees on the islands, enhancing green areas across the main campus. The Grounds Department, meanwhile, has completed work on a planting of 350 chrysanthemums on the hillside west of the Recreation and Convocation Center. The purple and yellow flowers are arranged in the shape of a "U" and an “A” and measure 42 feet by 22 feet. The design is the work of Timothy Reilly, grounds manager. |