Presentations, Exhibitions Sally Cross (Development) outlined the SUNY New Paltz Foundation’s role in the recent purchase and leaseback agreement to acquire 40 acres of land south of campus for student, faculty and staff housing at a panel discussion at the Higher Education and Real Estate: Developing and Managing Real Estate Assets in a Tough Economy conference in Boston, April 16-17. The panel was one of two university/developer case studies presented at the conference. Thomas Sarrantonio (Art – Foundation) will have an exhibition of paintings at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, May 2-June 1.
Campus News
- 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
- SUNY New Paltz to celebrate commencement
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Publications Dudley Cahn (Communication and Media) published a chapter, titled “Friendship, Conflict, and Dissolution,” in the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (March 2009, SAGE Publications).
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Students in the News Seven CSTEP (Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program) students belonging to the college’s AC2 (AMP/CSTEP Community) program accompanied the director, Stacie Nunes, (Physics) and assistant director, Reena DePaolo, to the 17th Annual CSTEP Statewide Student Conference at the Sagamore Hotel and Conference Center in Bolton Landing, N.Y., April 3-5. The centerpiece of the conference is student research showcased during a poster presentation competition and oral presentations. The work presented at the conference took place as part of the 2008 AC2 Summer Research Program and the 2008-09 academic year. Christopher Cahn ’09 (Biology), who worked with...
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Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition Bevier Hall won the 2009 RecycleMania Tournament on campus. Students in Bevier Hall recycled an average of 1.14 pounds per capita – collecting a total of 2,414.6 of recyclables during the campus’s participation in the nationwide RecycleMania competition, January 18-March 25. Donna Goodman (Development) is retiring on April 21 after 10 years at New Paltz. She was responsible for corporate and foundation fundraising for the SUNY New Paltz Foundation where her efforts have supported scholarships both directly and through the Celebrating New Paltz Gala and the Doug Sheppard Scholarship Golf Tournament, as well as...
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Publications Alice Andrews (Psychology, Evolutionary Studies) is serving as co-editor to “The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, and Culture,” a journal of evolutionary critiques to be published by SUNY Press in 2010; the first issue of which will debut as a book. Andrews is working with the literary Darwinist Joseph Carroll. The editorial board includes Glenn Geher (Psychology, Evolutionary Studies) and Jeff Miller (Political Science, Honors Program). Stephen Kitsakos (Theatre) is the co-author of the article “Make me aware: Expressionism in Company” with Paul M. Puccio, associate professor of English at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. The article appears in...
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Presentations, Exhibitions On April 18, 38 student members of the Concert Choir participated, along with other regional choral groups, in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston. Karanja Keita Carroll (Black Studies) presented “Maintaining Africana Studies: Content, Structure and Ideology for the 21st Century” at the 33rd Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference in Atlanta, Ga., on March 19. Carroll also presented “Black Studies at SUNY New Paltz: The Formative Years, 1968-1972″ at the SUNY 60th Anniversary Scholarly Conference on April 4. He also participated in...
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Alumni in the News Dan Einschlag ’07 (Music) and his wife, Emily, hosted the largest seder in America and the largest seder on any university campus in the world at the University of Florida -Gainesville, April 8-9. Dan prepared the food at his Rockland, N.Y. restaurant and traveled to Florida to help Rabbi Berl Goldman with the spiritual and ritual aspects of the meal, which had 600 students in attendance. Andy Eisenberg ’81 (Chinese Studies Contract Major), who received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington – Seattle in Chinese History in 1991, was recently promoted to the rank...
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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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Presentations, Exhibitions Performances of “Porch by Moonlight,” a one-act play by Larry Carr (English), premiered at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in the West Side YMCA in New York City on April 1 and 2, as part of the YMCA Playwriting Festival. Jannett Dinsmore ’09 (Biology) presented a poster detailing her research conducted with Aaron Haselton (Biology) at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America’s Eastern Branch in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 21, titled “The Effects of Dietary Regime on Post-Starvation Feeding in Drosophila Melanogaster.”