April 2006 News Releases
Media Advisory
and Photo Op: Mayor Jennings, Presidents Hall and
Sullivan Make Clean Sweep
UAlbany Campus Clean-Up Day Focuses on Downtown for 10th
Anniversary
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 28, 2006) -- Albany Mayor Gerald D.
Jennings and College of Saint Rose President R. Mark
Sullivan join University at Albany President Kermit L.
Hall for UAlbany's annual Campus Clean-Up Day.
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Media Advisory: Teachers Tour Crime Scenes at University
at Albany's NERFI Labs
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 28, 2006) -- Teachers from
across New York State will tour the Northeast Regional
Forensic Institute (NERFI) at the University at Albany,
receiving training in crime scene processing. Teachers
will then process four crime scenes set up at the
University labs.
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UAlbany Honors Top Researchers with Endowed Professorships
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 26, 2006) -- University at
Albany President Kermit L. Hall named the first recipients
of two endowed professorships at the Spring Faculty
Meeting. Kenneth L. Demerjian, director of Atmospheric
Sciences Research Center (ASRC) and professor in the
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science was named as
the first recipient Ray Falconer Endowed Chair in
atmospheric sciences. Distinguished Professor of chemistry
Eric Block will hold the Carla Rizzo Delray '42
Professorship.
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Media Advisory: UAlbany's School of Public Health
Announces 15th Annual Poster Day
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 26, 2006) -- The 15th Annual
University at Albany School of Public Health Poster Day
involves 80 students presenting their research or
internship work to public health professionals from the
university and community. Dr. Carole Mitnick from Partners
in Health, the organization that is the focus of Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder's
Mountains Beyond Mountains, will give the keynote
address.
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University at Albany Libraries Support Albany
High International Baccalaureate Diploma
Students
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 26, 2006) -- The University at
Albany Libraries are now offering research
support to Albany High School students in the
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme.
High school students in the pre-university
program are required to complete an extended
research project of 4,000 words and are
encouraged to select a well-focused topic as
preparation for university studies.
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Jeffrey D. Straussman Named Dean of Rockefeller College
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 21, 2006) -- Provost and
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Susan Herbst
today announced the appointment of Professor Jeffrey D.
Straussman as the next dean of the Rockefeller College of
Public Affairs and Policy.
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School of Public Health Dean Peter Levin
Announces Retirement from University at Albany
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 20, 2006) -- University at
Albany Dean of the School of Public Health Peter
J. Levin has announced his retirement from his
post effective this summer.
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UAlbany's Five Quad Volunteer Ambulance Service Equipped
to Provide Asthma Medication Treatments
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 20, 2006) -- The University at
Albany's Five Quad Volunteer Ambulance Service has been
approved to carry nebulized albuterol sulfate, a
medication usually reserved for paramedic or higher-level
provider use for asthmatics.
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UAlbany's Center for Technology in Government Unveils
Online XML Toolkit for Government Agencies
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 19, 2006) -- The University at
Albany's Center for Technology in Government (CTG) has
announced the release of the first version of its online
XML Toolkit. The Toolkit is a product of the Center's XML
Testbed, which serves to assist New York State agencies in
examining the benefits and challenges of Web site
management using the emerging technology of XML.
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Carol Gilligan to Receive UAlbany Medallion at 2006 Center
for Jewish Studies & School of Education Celebration
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 17, 2006) -- The University at
Albany will honor scholar and acclaimed author Carol
Gilligan at the 2006 Center for Jewish Studies and School
of Education Celebration. The 250-person celebration marks
the beginning of a new Jewish Education Initiative that is
a collaboration of the nationally ranked School of
Education and the new Center for Jewish Studies.
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SUNY Chancellor John
R. Ryan Honors Student Excellence
Awards Given to 270 Students from 62
Campuses
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 17, 2006) -- John R. Ryan,
Chancellor of the State University of New York,
honored 270 college students from 62 SUNY
campuses with the 2006 Chancellor's Award for
Student Excellence, Monday, April 10.
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Media Advisory: UAlbany Raises Funds for Rwandan
Service-Learning Trip Through Experiential
Revisiting of the 1994 Genocide
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 14, 2006) --
NY Times
best-selling author, and Rwandan genocide
survivor Immacul�e Ilibagiza will discuss her
ordeal and sign her book "Left to Tell:
Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" as
the University at Albany continues to raise
money to send ten students and two faculty from
the School of Social Welfare from UAlbany to
Rwanda this summer. A screening of "Hotel
Rwanda" will also be shown with a $5.00
admission price covering all events.
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Media Advisory: Albany Celebrates Fountain Day
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 13, 2006) -- The University at
Albany will celebrate Fountain Day, the annual
rite of spring when the main fountain on the
campus podium is turned on for the season, with
games, contests, prizes, free food, music and
entertainment.
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University at Albany Offers Graduate Public Security
Certificate
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 12, 2006) -- The University of
Albany, in partnership with the New York State Office of
Homeland Security, is offering a Public Security Studies
Certificate to graduate students through the Rockefeller
College of Public Affairs and Policy.
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UAlbany's Center for Technology in
Government Advances Information Sharing Among Justice
Agencies
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 11, 2006) -- The Center for
Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany
today announced the release of a new resource, Sharing
Justice Information: A Capability Assessment Toolkit.
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UAlbany's Laura L. Fredriksen Wins
Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 7, 2006) -- University at Albany
sophomore Laura L. Fredriksen has won a competitive Goldwater
Scholarship, effective for the 2006-2007 academic year.
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Media Advisory: Schodack Sixth Graders Tour UAlbany's
Forensic Labs
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 6, 2006) -- Students from
Schodack Central Schools will tour the University at
Albany Northeast Regional Forensic Institute's (NERFI)
laboratories. Students will learn about police crime scene
DNA sampling and witness DNA analysis.
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Guggenheim Foundation Honors UAlbany Professor and
Novelist
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 6, 2006) -- University at
Albany professor of English and writer in residence Lynne
Tillman has been awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships are
awarded to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional
ability by publishing a significant body of work in the
fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities,
and the creative arts.
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UAlbany Combines Celebrated Fiction and Award
Winning Film to Commemorate World Health Day
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 5, 2006) -- The University at
Albany's School of Public Health closes Public
Health Week and commemorates World Health Day,
April 7, with the presentation of the film,
Water First,
by Amy Hart, broadcast producer for the
School of Public Health. Following the
screening, Dean Peter Levin will lead a
discussion of the film, relating it to the
UAlbany Reading Project title,
Mountains
Beyond Mountains by Pulitzer Prize
winning novelist Tracy Kidder.
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Media Advisory: Kennedy Assassination
is Topic of Kermit L. Hall Lecture
ALBANY, N.Y.
(April 5, 2006) -- "Open Secrets: The Kennedy
Assassination and Its Lessons for Today", a lecture
by Kermit L. Hall, legal historian, member of the 1990s Assassination Records
Review Board, editor of The Oxford Companion to the Supreme
Court of the United States, and president of the University at Albany.
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U.S. Unprepared for Impact of Aging
Population on Health Workforce According to UAlbany
Center for Health Workforce Studies
Shortages of RNs, geriatric
specialists pose significant strains on health services
for Elderly
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 5, 2006) -- The United States
is unprepared to meet the health care challenges posed
by its aging population, according to a new study by the
Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) at the University
at Albany's School of Public Health.
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