Major Highlights
Fall 2006 marked the launch of three new undergraduate degrees:
The Department of Psychology began offering an M.A. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology.
The Institute of RNA Science and Technology was launched.
The Department of Africana Studies graduate program ranked second in the nation and the undergraduate program was sixth, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine.
The Center for the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences hosted the successful Architecture at Albany theme semester.
Awards and Recognition
Acclaimed jazz musician and Grammy award nominee, Don Byron, visiting associate professor, Music, Guggenheim Fellow, 2007.
Minjeong Kim, doctoral candidate, Sociology, 2007 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women's Studies.
Max Lifchitz, professor, Music, Elena-Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies, Columbus State University, Center for International Education.
2007 College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching: Karyn Loscocco, Sociology (Service in Teaching), Amy Murrell Taylor, History (Service in Teaching), and Gerald Zahavi, History (Innovation in Teaching).
Steven Messner, professor, Sociology, 2007 Collins Fellow.
Edward Schwarzschild, associate professor, English, Fulbright scholarship.
Eszter Szalczer, associate professor, Theatre, 2007 NEH summer stipend.
Grants
Lance Bosart, professor, Earth and Atmospheric Science, $285,037, NSF, "A Multiscale Diagnostic and Prognostic Investigation of Environmental Influences on Tropical Cyclone Life."
The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities received $1.5 million in state funding.
The Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities was allocated $45,000 in the New York State budget for 2007-08.
The Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences, Critical Exchange Grant, Imaging America: Artists in Public Life. Educational program component, $180,000 award, Getty Foundation, Campus Heritage Grant.
Evgeny Dikarev, assistant professor, Chemistry, $274,160, NSF, "Acquisition of Powder X-Ray Diffractometer for Research and Teaching."
Virginia Eubanks, assistant professor, Women's Studies, $104,927, NSF Program on Ethics and Values of Science, Engineering and Technology, "The Citizenship Effects of Welfare Administration Technologies."
The Journalism Program received a $25,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
Min-Ho Lee, assistant professor, Biology, $685,000, American Cancer Society, "The Coordinate Translational Control of Multiple mRNA Targets in C. Elegans."
Rabi Musah, associate professor, Chemistry, $100,000, NSF, "Undergraduate Research Curriculum Development in Chemistry."
Ben Szaro, professor, Biology, $390,000, New York State Department of Health, "Gene Expression Profiling in Successful Spinal Reinnervation."
Major Gifts
The Department of Biological Sciences Biodiversity, Conservation, and Public Policy Program attracted over $1.1 million through commitments from five endowments.