Anne R. Roschelle (Sociology) was elected vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society. She will serve a two-year term. Joshua A. Simons (Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach) has been awarded a $19,673 grant by the Town of New Paltz Historic Preservation Commission for his project, “Interactive Online Map of Historic Properties of New Paltz.”
Campus News
- Dr. Hamilton Stapell Named 2012-13 Teacher of the Year for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- New Paltz ranked second in list of top 50 affordable colleges
- SUNY New Paltz to celebrate commencement
- New Paltz names Nicolette Glebatis as class of 2013 valedictorian
- New Paltz enhances Commencement security
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News from Human Resources
The Office of Human Resources has announced the college’s new hires, promotions and transfers for December 2009. New hires Professional faculty: Dan Rigney (Development), Gifts Officer Steven Ross (Public Affairs/Web Development) Web Developer
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The Office of Sponsored Programs is pleased to announce that Dr. Gerald Benjamin (CRREO) has been awarded a grant by Ulster County for his project entitled, “Quarterly Reports on Ulster County Government Performance.”
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Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) received $108,219 from a $430,500 National Science Foundation grant for an undergraduate research project titled “Surface and Analytical Chemistry to Elucidate Fundamental Biofilm Properties and Mechanisms of Biofilm Control.” Ferguson is one of three principal investigators on the project; the other two are Eileen Spain from Occidental College in Los Angeles and Megan Nunez from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. James H. Ottaway Jr. presented a lecture on the history and future of the newspaper industry at a Lifetime Learning Institute event on Dec. 4. He said newspapers are declining in all major markets....
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Jonathan Raskin (Psychology) was elected a 2009 fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.
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Kristine Harris (History, Asian Studies) served as visiting associate professor at the University of Chicago in spring 2009. There she developed two new courses, Women Chinese Film and Shanghai Film Mediascape, for graduate students and undergraduates in cinema and media studies, East Asian languages and civilizations and gender studies. Harris also taught Chinese cinema at the University of Chicago in spring 2007. At New Paltz, she will offer a revised version of Shanghai Film Mediascape in spring 2010. Mary Kahl (Communication and Media) won the 2009 Neil Postman Award from the New York State Communication Association. The award, which...
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Sara Pasti (Dorsky Museum) has been awarded a $4,818 grant by the Hudson Valley Greenway Communities Council for a project titled “Revisiting the Hudson: 19th Century Landscape Painting in Context.” The symposium will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, “Views and Visions: The Hudson River to Niagara Falls – 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society,” which is on display through Dec. 13 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. The interdisciplinary symposium will contextualize 19th-century American landscape painting.
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Mary Kahl (Communication and Media) was awarded the 2009 Feminist Scholar/Mentor Award by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. The award recognizes sustained scholarship about women’s communication practices and an exemplary record of academic mentorship. Kahl will receive the award in October at the annual OSCLG Conference in Los Angeles. The New Paltz collegiate chapter of the American Marketing Association in the School of Business, under the direction of faculty adviser is Ted Clark (Business), is one of two chapters nationwide to be awarded a $500 grant from the International American Marketing Association Collegiate Division....
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Howard Good (Communication and Media) had a poem, “Sal’s Place,” which appeared in the February 2009 issue of elimae, nominated for the Best of the Net volume published annually by Sundress Press. This is his third poem to be nominated over the past three years for the Best of the Net. The School of Business added the following members to its Business Advisory Council: • Tracy Badgley – CPA, Partner, Levitan Yegidis and Associates, LLP; • C. Edward Burke Jr. – First Vice President, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; • Adam Galiard – Manager of Technology Development and Project Engineering,...