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In Step with President Hall |
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March 2006 |
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A New Look
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A crane lifts the tarp off the new sign
announcing the University at Albany at the downtown campus. |
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President Kermit L. Hall. |
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March 29, 2006 - University at
Albany President Kermit L. Hall has unveiled the new campus
identifier for the University's downtown campus, symbolizing the
first step of a $2.4 million initiative that will make the
University's three campuses welcoming, and easy to find and
navigate. The University has set a goal of completing the
project in time for students' arrival for the fall semester.
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First Niagara
Supports Cancer Research
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vice chairman, First Niagara Financial Group; Carl Florio,
president, Eastern Region, First Niagara Bank; Paulette
McCormick, Ph.D., director, Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in
Cancer Genomics (GCECG); President Kermit L. Hall, University at Albany;
Kevin O'Bryan, senior vice president, chief credit officer,
First Niagara Bank; and Peter Cosgrove, senior vice president,
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March 29, 2006 - First Niagara
Bank donated $50,000 to the
Center for
Excellence in Cancer Genomics at the University at Albany's
Cancer Research Center on the East Campus. The funds will be
used to purchase equipment that is needed by scientists focused
on research that will uncover the basic mechanisms that drive
cancer progression.
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Breakfast with Leaders
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Professor Jim Hargett of the Department of
East Asian Studies, Professor Nanzhao Zhou, President Kermit L.
Hall, Professor Liping Huang, and Professor Tony DeBlasi, also
of East Asian Studies. |
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Breakfast meeting. |
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March 29, 2006 - At the invitation
of President Kermit L. Hall, professors Nanzhao Zhou and Liping
Huang of East China Normal University in Shanghai visited
UAlbany from March 29-31. The purpose of their visit was to meet
with various representatives of UAlbany departments and schools
in order to discuss possible areas of cooperation and
collaboration in the future. President Lizhong Yu of East China
Normal University will visit UAlbany sometime in late May. |
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Learning from
President Hall
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March 28, 2006 - President Kermit
L. Hall talked to Professor Erik Hoffmann's undergraduate course
Building Democracies and Markets
about his work on the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records
Review Board. Hoffmann teaches the
political
science course on the uptown campus. Hoffmann noted, "Hall's
public service was unique and invaluable as well as challenging
and time-consuming. The five-member board declassified and
generated eight million documents. Hall's reflections on how
best to balance national security and privacy with openness and
accountability were especially relevant to the themes of this
class." |
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Spellman Achievement
Awards
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March 26, 2006 |
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From left, John Murphy, Jennifer Uhlmann, and
President Kermit L. Hall. University Police Chief Frank Wiley is
behind Uhlmann. Uhlmann, who had the highest cumulative GPA for
any Latina female in the senior class, was presented with a
Spellman Achievement Top Honoree Award for Seniors. |
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Junior Esmeralda Hoscoy, far right, vice
president of the Student Association, talks with a family member
and President Kermit L. Hall. |
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Lecture at Court of
Appeals Hall
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Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York
State Court of Appeals with President Kermit L. Hall. |
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President Hall in the New York State Court of
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March 23, 2006 - President Hall
gave the inaugural lecture in the New York State Court of
Appeals Lecture Series. His talk was on "The
New York Times vs. Sullivan and its Times: The Press and
the Community."
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Tracy Kidder on Campus
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March 23, 2006 |
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From left, President Kermit L. Hall, author
Tracy Kidder, and Donald Faulkner, director of the New York
State Writers Institute. |
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Students, faculty, and administrators across
campus have been reading and discussing Kidder's "Mountains
Beyond Mountains" for the University's inaugural
Reading Project
this semester.
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Haitian Student
Association Donation
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March 23, 2006 - The Haitian
student group raised more than $1,000 for Partners in Health,
the healthcare organization Kidder writes about in
Mountains Beyond Mountains. HSA also
made a $1,000 donation to the SUNY Haitian Student Association
Scholarship, which will go to Haiti to sponsor the education of
a university student. |
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From left, Donald Faulkner, director of the
New York State Writers Institute, Kennique Washington, vice
president of the Haitian Student Association (HSA), author Tracy
Kidder, President Hall, Phyllis Hall, Patrick Romain, adviser to
the HSA, and Nicole Baptiste, president of the HSA. |
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University at Albany
Acquires Joseph E. Persico Papers
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President Kermit L. Hall; William Kennedy,
executive director and founder of the New York State Writers
Institute; author Joseph E. Persico; and Donald Faulkner,
director of the New York State Writers Institute and associate
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Joseph E. Persico |
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Hall and Persico. |
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Phyllis Hall and Persico. |
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March 22, 2006 - The University at
Albany has acquired the papers of Joseph E. Persico, the
best-selling author of Roosevelt's Secret
War, Edward R. Murrow: An American Original,
The Imperial Rockefeller, and
co-author of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's
autobiography My American Journey.
Persico's personal and professional papers, documents,
memorabilia, and speeches, many written during his 11 years as a
speechwriter for Governor and later Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller, will be stored in the
University Libraries' M.E.
Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives.
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President for a Day
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March 22, 2006 - Vincent Porfirio, a senior
English major from Schoharie, N.Y.,
had the opportunity to view the life of a public university president when he
shadowed President Kermit L. Hall as President for a Day. Porfirio, who has a
minor in history, is a transfer
student from the State University of New York College at Oswego. |
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From left, Vincent Porfirio and President Kermit L. Hall in
the Science Library. |
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UAlbany Works with
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March 21, 2006 - The Albany City
School District's Board of Education on Tuesday approved the
Albany High-School-UAlbany Alliance for Young Talent. The
program is being set up to curb violence at the high school. A
special classroom has been set up at the University at Albany
for up to 15 at-risk Albany High School Students. The classroom,
at the Science Library, is being staffed by Albany High School
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From left, Eva Joseph, superintendent of
Albany City schools; Kermit L. Hall, president of the University
at Albany; James Anderson, vice president for Student Success
and vice provost; and Katharine Briar-Lawson, dean of the School
of Social Welfare. |
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Board of
Visitors Reception
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President Kermit L. Hall. |
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Social
of Social Welfare Dean Katharine Briar-Lawson and Albany
Schools Superintendent Eva Joseph. |
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Albany County Executive Michael Breslin. |
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Distinguished Teaching Professor James Acker
of the School of Criminal
Justice. |
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March 20, 2006 - Local community
members and dignitaries spoke at the reception for the
Board of Visitors. |
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Board of
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The Board of Visitors.
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March 20, 2006 - The
Board of Visitors was on campus March 20-21 for its
inaugural visit. The board is made up of distinguished national
and international leaders in business and higher education.
Members were given a full introduction to the University at
Albany. |
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Minority
Scholars' Lunch
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March 13, 2006 - President Kermit
L. Hall addresses students from Albany High School as part of
the Minority Scholars' Lunch in the Campus Center. |
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President's
Leadership Awards
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March 12, 2006 - President Kermit
L. Hall congratulated recipients of the
President's
Leadership Awards at a ceremony in the Campus Center
Ballroom on Sunday, March 12. The awards recognize and reward
students who have made significant contributions to enhance the
quality of life at the University at Albany. Recipients have
demonstrated a variety of accomplishments, including
extraordinary leadership, service, academic achievement, and
involvement within the University community. |
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UAlbany Going to the
Dance
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Jamar Wilson had 29 points.
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President Kermit L. Hall at the
history-making men's basketball game. |
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The energy was electric. |
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The crowd rushed the floor as UAlbany beat Vermont 80-67 >>
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March 11, 2006 - Jamar Wilson
scored 29 points in leading UAlbany to its first-ever America
East Conference championship and NCAA Division I tournament
berth in an 80-67 victory over Vermont before a capacity crowd
of 4,538 fans on March 11 at the Recreation and Convocation
Center. UAlbany will meet Connecticut, one of four teams to
receive No. 1 seeds, in the 2006 NCAA Division I Men's
Basketball Tournament's first round on Friday, March 17, at
Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. |
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Hall with Hillary
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March 10, 2006 - Clinton, Hall,
and O'Connor attended Innovations and
Opportunities in Telecommunications: A Showcase of New York
State's Telecommunications Industry, a conference on
trends in the telecommunications sector, at the University at
Albany on March 10. Clinton moderated a panel discussion at the
conference. Sponsors for the event included New Jobs for New
York, Inc., and the Center for Economic Growth. |
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From left, U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton, University at Albany President Kermit L. Hall, and
Kevin O'Connor, CEO of Tech Valley Communications. |
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Linda Greenhouse
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March 9, 2006 - Linda Greenhouse,
who has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The
New York Times for nearly three
decades, was the guest speaker for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting
Scholar Program on March 8. She was also a guest of the
New York State
Writers Institute. She is shown here with President Kermit
L. Hall the following day. Hall is a constitutional scholar and
expert on the Supreme Court.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times"
reporter Linda Greenhouse with President Kermit L. Hall. |
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President Hall at
SUNY Day
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From left, President Kermit L. Hall, State
Sen. Neil Breslin, Shannon Williams and Wendy Weller. |
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President Hall and a UAlbany contingent met
with State Sen. Kenneth LaValle. |
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March 7, 2006 - President Kermit
L. Hall and a contingent of UAlbany supporters advocated on
behalf of the University at Albany at SUNY Day. |
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Hall Greets Board of
Visitors
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President Kermit L. Hall shakes hands with
John Zogby as Mildred Garcia applauds. Zogby, president and CEO
of Zogby International, and Garcia, president of Berkeley
College, are members of UAlbany's Board of Visitors. |
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Hall and Garcia. |
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Luncheon for members of the Board of
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Professor Paulette McCormick introduces Zogby
and Garcia to the Cancer Genomics Center on the East Campus. |
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March 6, 2006 - The newly created
Board of Visitors, made up of distinguished leaders, will
help the University test key assumptions being developed through
compact planning against the broader framework of higher
education. |
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