Jan Hammond (Educational Administration) was appointed to the Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching by the New York State Board of Regents. Hammond’s term will end on June 30, 2010. The board serves the Regents and the Commissioner of Education on teaching issues and related professions.

Sara Pasti (Museum) received sponsorship from the Greenway Heritage Conservancy HRV Inc. for the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s educational symposium, “Revisiting the Hudson: 19th Century Landscape Painting in Context.”

L.H. Roper (History) has been named a co-general editor of the new Journal of Early American History and related book series, The American Colonies, 1500-1830, both published by Brill Academic Publishers of Leiden, the Netherlands. Roper will serve with Jaap Jacobs, a Dutch independent scholar, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke of the University of Paris-8 in St. Denis. The journal will be housed in the Department of History at New Paltz and will publish its first number in early 2010. For more information, visit www.brill.nl/jeah/.

Tags: History Department, journal, New York State Board of Regents, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, symposium

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