UAlbany in the News
by Media Relations Staff (April 7, 2006)
- Hilde Hoogenboom, assistant professor of
Slavic and Eurasian studies in the Department of
Languages, Literatures and Cultures, appeared on
the March 16 edition of A&E's "Biography" as an
expert on Catherine the Great. In 2005,
Hoogenboom published, with Mark Cruse,
The Memoirs of Catherine
the Great (Modern Library-Random House),
which Publishers Weekly
called a "fresh, clean translation."
- A report on the supply of doctors in New
York from the Center for Health Workforce
Studies at UAlbany's School of Public Health was
featured in the Buffalo
News article "Physician shortage reaching
unhealthy level" on March 21. The article noted,
"The Buffalo Niagara region's disadvantages at
keeping the doctors it trains and recruiting the
physicians it needs is leading to shortages in
some specialties and concern about the future .
. . Buffalo Niagara was one of only two regions
in the state that experienced a loss of doctors
between 2000 and 2004, according to a recent
report by the University at Albany's Center for
Health Workforce Studies."
- President Kermit L. Hall was quoted in a
March 8 USA Today article "Alarms sound over
athletes' Facebook time," concerning First
Amendment rights for athletes using Facebook.com.
Hall said schools are probably on safe ground to
restrict athletes' Facebook usage, though
probably not other students. "Students who join
those teams submit to a certain degree of
regulation that doesn't follow the rest of the
student population," said Hall. "They're not
public figures in the sense of
New York Times v.
Sullivan . . . but they are in the sense that
they appear regularly on the sports pages."
- The University at Albany Great Danes
clinched the America East Championship and faced
the top-seeded UConn Huskies March 17 in the
first round of the NCAA Big Dance. The Great
Danes dominated the court for most of the
contest and captivated a nationally-televised
audience that hoped to witness a
record-breaking, historic upset. UConn won with
a final score of 72-59, but the UAlbany men's
basketball team and Coach Will Brown garnered attention and articles in The New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, The Hartford Courant, New York Post, New York Daily News, USA Today, Boston Globe, LA Times, CBS, ESPN.com, and SportingNews.com.
