Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Jaclynne Kerner (Art History) has been selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, “Disease in the Middle Ages.” The seminar, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), will be held from July 5 to Aug. 8 at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine in London. Participants will explore the ways in which scientific knowledge informs humanistic methods of understanding cultural responses to disease in the Middle Ages, and how humanistic studies of medieval...
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- New Paltz selects Interim Dean of the School of Business
- SUNY New Paltz picked as site for Governor Cuomo’s NYS Master Teacher Program
- 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
- New Paltz names Nicolette Glebatis as class of 2013 valedictorian
Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Bythema Bagley ’83 of New Paltz has been reappointed by Governor David Paterson to the New Paltz College Council for a term to expire in June 2012. The School of Business announces the 2009 recipients of its service and teaching awards. Ted Clark, professor and director of the college’s Business Institute, will receive the Distinguished Service Award. Bruce Mather, professor, will receive the Distinguished Teaching Award. Toni Rizzo, administrative assistant to the dean, and Rendesia Scott, senior academic advisor, will each receive the Staff Service Award. The recipients will be presented with their awards...
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Maryalice Citera (Psychology) and Robin Cohen-La Valle (Student Development) were awarded a $750 grant from the National Institute for Study of Transfer Students for their project, “Transfer Student Self-Reliance and Its Relationship to Adjustment and Academic Performance in the Millennial Transfer Student,” which explores the association among self-reliance, transfer student adjustment and performance while also comparing entrants starting in the fall with mid-year entrants. Larry Hauptman (History) received the Environmental Distinguished Award from Mohonk Consultations, a nonprofit environmental organization based at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz. The award recognizes his contributions to writing...
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) received a fellowship from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame for the spring 2010 semester. The fellowship brings together social scientists performing research on democracy and social justice. Junge’s goal is to generate text for a book-length monograph that examines how social actors and groups outside of formal political institutions in Porto Alegre, Brazil, have made sense of progressive political initiatives conducted ostensibly on their behalf.
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Maryalice Citera (Psychology) and Robin Cohen-La Valle, associate dean of students, are the recipients of a research grant from the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) for a study titled “Transfer Student Self-Reliance and Its Relationship to Adjustment and Academic Performance in the Millennial Transfer Student.” Phyllis Freeman (Psychology) will receive the SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher Award, which is presented to a faculty member whose singular accomplishments exceed normal expectations in a chosen field, on March 21. Freeman has been a member of the faculty since 1975 and...
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Gerald Benjamin, associate vice president for regional engagement and director of the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO), has been awarded a $5,000 grant by the Netherlands-America Foundation for his project, “The Worlds of Henry Hudson: Teaching and Understanding New Netherlands from a Transatlantic Perspective.” This intellectual event will be held in connection with the quadricentennial celebration of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the Hudson River and will explore the four “worlds” related to Hudson and his voyage: early modern overseas empires; the contacts between European and non-European people; colonial societies; and transatlantic...
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AWARDS, HONORS, APPOINTMENTS AND RECOGNITION Gregory Bray (Communication and Media) received the CINE Golden Eagle Award for “A Horse Connection,” a documentary film he wrote, produced and directed. The film focuses on a therapeutic horse riding program for persons with special needs. Students and alumni from the Communication and Media Department assisted in the project over the two-year production period. Those students were: Rob Jameson ’06 and Jae Verner ’06, directors of photography; Bryan Neilon ’07, editor; Joshua Farina ’06, Ryan Conner ’06 and Stephanie Man ’07, videographers; and Yolan Baker ’07, Mary Hall ’07 and Daniel Asis ’07,...
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AWARDS, HONORS, APPOINTMENTS AND RECOGNITION Ted Clark (Business Institute, Business) received a $17,446 grant from a major hospital consortium to study health care practices in the Hudson Valley. The study team will include 13 undergraduate and two graduate business students. In addition, Clark has been elected to the position of second vice president for the Business Marketing Association’s Hudson Valley Region and will be responsible for program development. Howard Good (Communication and Media) had his 10-part prose poem, “A Tiny Fugue for Tomorrowland,” nominated by the journal Bartleby Snopes for a Pushcart Prize. This is Good’s third Pushcart nomination...
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AWARDS, HONORS, APPOINTMENTS AND RECOGNITION Ted Clark (Business) received a grant for $28,780 from a major credit union to study consumer banking practices in the Hudson Valley. In addition, Clark, and consultants Ann Smith and John Bassler, received a grant for $5,921 for a project to assist the credit union in developing a new mission and vision statement. Petra Kern (Music Therapy) received the American Music Therapy Association’s national research and publication award for 2008 at the organization’s annual conference in St. Louis in November. Kern evaluated the effects of embedded music therapy interventions for young children with disabilities,...