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UAlbany
in the News
by
Lisa James Goldsberry
The
May 15 broadcast of National Public Radio featured a story
which quoted DON OROKOS and
JOE MASCARENHAS of the Department
of Biological Sciences and WENDY
BECKER of the School of Business. W.
MARK DALE, director of the NYC Forensics Lab and a
student in UAlbany�s executive MBA program, was also quoted
in the story. The topic of the piece was the current pressure
to solve more crimes using DNA technology. However, with labs
nationwide being short-staffed and suffering from high turnover,
lab quality problems result. Reporter Larry Abramson cited
forensics training programs like UAlbany�s new master�s program
in forensic science as one solution. Becker was quoted as
saying, �The way the field is going, it�s becoming increasingly
automated.� Orokos added, �We�re training these people to
think like scientists.�
The August 29 issue of The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured quotes by BETTY
DANIEL, chair of the Depart ment of Economics. The
article, �Georgia�s Jobs, Work Force Shrink: U.S. Unemployment
Claims Stay at a Worrisome Level,� focused on how the labor
market is down despite signs showing a strengthening economy.
According to the article, in 2003 the U.S. economy has lost
jobs in every month except January. Nationally, the number
of people filing for jobless claims was up and continues to
hover near recession levels. Daniel was quoted as saying,
�Everyone expected the economy to pick up by now, and during
all previous recoveries, jobs pick up, too.� She added, �I
don�t think the experts know exactly what�s going on here.�
The
August 13 issue of Newsday
featured UAlbany student RYAN
FITZPATRICK, a theatre and history major from Sayville,
N.Y. The article, �Living � and Laboring � In the Past,� focused
on a group of college students who swap the comforts of 2003
for two weeks of hard work, circa 1855, at Old Bethpage Village
Restora tion. The students were testing a pilot internship
that aims to give participants firsthand knowledge of what
life would have been like for a Long Island farm family living
in 1855. They slept in replica rope beds, rose with the roosters,
and had to learn new skills such as milking cows and cooking
meals over a hearth.
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