Alumni in the News

Hudson Valley Writing Project teacher consultant and New Paltz alumna receives Fulbright Award

April 8, 2013

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...

F&PA alumna nominated for NY Innovative Theatre Award

October 25, 2012

By Staff Writer

Kudos to Charlotte Pines ’09 (Theatre Arts)! At a sold-out event in New York City on July 23, Pines received a nomination for a New York Innovative Theatre Award (IT Awards) . The nomination was for an Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role award for her performance in Callous Cad. The event was attended by nearly 500 artists and guests. According to the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, the IT Awards are given annually to honor individuals and organizations who have achieved artistic excellence in Off-Off-Broadway theatre. The New York IT Awards recognizes the unique and essential role Off-Off-Broadway...

On stage in NYC

September 4, 2012

By Staff Writer

Andrea Lynn Green ’09 (Theatre Arts) starred in “Blind Date” at the 59 E 59 Theatres in Manhattan, Aug. 12-18. The production was part of the Off-Broadway theater company Primary Stages’ program, “Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote.” Read the review of the play that appeared in the New York Times. Green will return to campus for Reunion later this month, when she will participate in a panel discussion hosted by the School of Fine and Performing Arts.

Geography alumni win national award

September 4, 2012

By Staff Writer

Dave Luhan ’88 (Geography) and Doug Genzer ’93 (Geography) received a Special Achievement Award from Esri, a research and technology company, for their DenverGIS team’s successful project, “Parcel Fabric Conversion.” They coordinated and introduced a new data structure model, state-of-the-art tools, streamlined workflow processes and quality control for maintaining and updating information on lots, parcels, ordinances and surveys used by the Assessment Division and Public Works Survey Department for the city and county of Denver. Dave is currently GeoSpatial Applications Director and Doug is Senior GIS Analyst for the City and County of Denver. More information about their project...

Our Evolving Brains

June 27, 2012

By Staff Writer

Is the human brain continuing to evolve? In what ways does it adapt to changing conditions? Who else is asking these questions, and what answers are they finding? PsychTable.org is a new, online project co-created by Daniel Glass ’12g (Psychology), with Niruban Balachandran (Rutgers University) and Timothy Nabzdyk (Mississippi State University and SUNY Buffalo), to collect information related to these issues. Evolved psychological adaptations (EPAs) of the human mind are the focus of Glass’s research, and PsychTable.org is the first international collaborative endeavor to classify them. The project, which lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and...

Recent graduate presents paper at leading scholarly conference

March 26, 2012

By Staff Writer

Emily I. Sobel ’11 (Asian Studies) presented a paper, “Little Brother and Sister are Watching: Youth-Directed Media Tools and Thought Work in Post-1989 Chinese News Media,” on March 15 at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies held in Toronto, Canada. AAS is the premier conference in North America for the field of Asian Studies, attracting scholars from around the world. Sobel’s paper grew out of her senior thesis for the Honors Program. It was developed as an independent study project in Asian Studies under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Schwartz (Political Science) as lead reader...

Sergey Jivetin receives prestigious Tiffany Foundation Award

March 12, 2012

By Staff Writer

Sergey Jivetin ’01 (Metal) has been awarded an unrestricted grant in the amount of $20,000 from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Thirty grant recipients were chosen from more than 130 nominations in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and craft media, gathered by a nationwide nominating committee. Jivetin’s work incorporates concepts of engineering and mechanical physics, as well as materials such as fishing hooks, syringe needles, and human hair. Jivetin is a previous recipient of the Art Jewelry Forum’s Emerging Artist Award and the Herbert Hoffman Preis. His work will be on view at the Smithsonian American...

Julian Keenan named one of New Jersey’s “Biggest Brains”

March 12, 2012

By Staff Writer

The Star-Ledger has named Julian Keenan ’91 (Psychology), g ’94 (Psychology) among the “Biggest Brains of New Jersey” in a feature story on nj.com. He was among 20 intellects included on the “N.J. Brainpower List.” Founder and director of Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Montclair State University, Keenan was recognized for his research “on topics in which experimentation has been typically difficult, including deception, self-awareness and the overlap between sense of self and sense of others. In trying to discover which neural networks are responsible for these traits, Keenan uses creative techniques on volunteer subjects including noninvasive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to...