Professor Lewis Brownstein (Political Science), who is retiring after 44 years teaching at New Paltz, has been awarded Emeritus status by the College. Lewis was honored at a farewell celebration on May 4 at the College Terrace. Members of the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO), the Office of Institutional Research & Planning, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art have been awarded a grant in the amount of $20,000 from The New York Community Trust to measure the economic impact of the arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Professor Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) has received a $19,546 grant...
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
Professor Michael Vargas (History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies) has been awarded the 2012 La Corónica International Book Award for his monograph “Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents.” The prize will be announced at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9-12. It carries for the author an honorarium and an invitation to attend the Congress in the following year to preside over a special session dedicated to advancing the research themes of the awarded work.
GEM Fellowship awarded to Ranysha Ware
AMP/CSTEP student Ranysha Ware ’13 (Computer Science) was awarded a GEM Fellowship from the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. Ware will intern at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory this summer and then head to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst as a GEM Fellow in their Computer Science program.
Hudson Valley Writing Project teacher consultant and New Paltz alumna receives Fulbright Award
Christine McCartney ’07g (English), an English Language Arts teacher at Newburgh Free Academy and a teacher consultant for the Hudson Valley Writing Project, has been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching grant to conduct research in Finland. McCartney is one of approximately 20 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad in 2012-13 through the Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program. During her six-month stay in Finland, McCartney will study at the University of Tampere, where she will conduct seminars for local teachers and students, observe classes, and complete a capstone project in which she will research how Finnish teachers...
Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
The Hudson Valley Psychological Association has awarded New Paltz a Psychologically Healthy Community Award in recognition of our contributions to the psychological health of our communities. Professor James Halpern (Psychology), who is the director of the Institute of Disaster Mental Health (IDMH), was notified of the award and invited to accept on behalf of the College at an event that will be held at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum on June 8.
Publications
The third edition of the college art appreciation textbook, “The Power of Art,” co-written by Professor Susan Lewis (History) and husband Richard Lewis (Marist College), has been published by Wadsworth/Cengage Learning (2014). The new edition features more works by women and non-Western artists. It also highlights the convergence of artistic media (drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, and design) in contemporary art, as well as the cross-pollination of art across the globe enabled by the internet.
New Paltz student wins Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Award
“The Dark I Know,” a musical written and directed by New Paltz student Alex Eisen ’13 and NYU student John Watts, was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Musical Theatre Award for 2013. Eisen wrote the libretto and lyrics, and Watts was the project’s composer. Professor Stephen Kitsakos (Theatre Arts) served as faculty mentor and helped craft and develop the script and the score. “The Dark I Know” is the story of a photojournalist and her son in Germany who become involved with a Jewish family during the 1929 to 1939 rise to power of the...
Publications
Professor David Appelbaum (Philosophy), for Codhill Press, has just published the 10-year-anniversary edition of Professor Alice Andrews’s (Psychology, Evolutionary Studies) novel “Trine Erotic.” Writes Steven Pinker: “A marvelously seductive novel that inspires and pleases many instincts at once.” Distributed by SUNY Press. Professors Maureen Morrow (Biology, RSCA) and Kathleen (KT) Tobin (Sociology, CRREO) published an article in the winter 2012 CUR Quarterly, the official publication of the Council on Undergraduate Research. “Communicating Student Research at SUNY New Paltz to State and Local Elected Officials” describes the various ways in which CRREO connects undergraduate researchers with lawmakers. This article is...
Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition
Suzanne Grady (Communication & Marketing) received a Gold Accolades Award for Institutional Media Relations from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for a series of articles and events in commemoration of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The series included coverage of New Paltz’s Institute of Disaster Mental Health (IDMH) in the New York Times, an NBC documentary featuring Caitlin Langone ’12, and a flag planting ceremony on campus. Grady was presented with the award in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 4 at the CASE District II conference.