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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.
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
reports on $850 million pouring into nanosciences research
at UAlbany. Full
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