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.
Campus News
- 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
Students in the News
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...
Student artwork and faculty essay published in “Keep Delete”
Digital illustrations by undergraduate graphic design students in Professor Amy Papaelias’s (Art) Spring 2012 Interaction Design, an upper-level course in the Graphic Design Program, were selected for publication in “Keep Delete: turning messages into keepsakes” (October 2013, CreateSpace) by Andrea Wilkinson, Lecturer at the Media, Arts, Design faculty in Limburg, Belgium. “Keep Delete” is about turning digital messages on the verge of being forgotten, deleted, outdated, or even lost into tangible artifacts. The publication includes more than 100 designed artifacts from designers, students, and artists from around the world and essays from designers reflecting on the relationship between design...
New Paltz student awarded Undergraduate Research Experience Travel Award
With the help of an Undergraduate Research Experience Travel Award (URETA), Sarath Manuel ’13 (Psychology) presented the results of his research at the 53rd Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was held Nov. 15-18. Along with his mentor, Professor Navin Viswanathan (Psychology), he presented Sensitivity to VOT- Vowel Length Covariation in Spanish and English Monolinguals. Manuel researched his subject matter when he was a part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) funded by the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities (RSCA) program. The URETA award is available to students who have participated in either SURE or...
Outing Club video selected as contest finalist
A video made by New Paltz student Terence Gardner (Digital Media Production) for the College’s Outing Club was selected as one of four finalists in Polartec’s “Made Possible Challenge.” Finalists were selected by a panel of judges based on three criteria: passion for the outdoors; motivation/effort; and originality. Ultimately, the contest winner was decided by the number of votes the videos received on Polartec’s Made Possible Facebook page.
Students in the News
Remy LeDily ’13 (Communication Disorders) and Aileen Dolan ’13 (Communication Disorders), presented results of their work at the November 2012 American Speech and Hearing Association Convention in Atlanta, Ga. Along with their mentor, Professor Inga Anema (Communication Disorders), they presented Effects of Updated vs Outdated Pictorial Stimuli on Naming Tests under the topic area Language Disorders in Adults. The students received a Student Travel Award (STA) from the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities (RSCA). Information about the Student Travel Award is available here.
New Paltz American Marketing Association chapter receives awards
The New Paltz chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), which won a bronze medal at the AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans this year, also received several awards at the New Paltz Student Club and Leadership Awards reception held on campus. The AMA received three awards including the Best Large-Scale Event of the Year, Outstanding Promotional Award, and the Outstanding Recruitment Award. The awards recognize the AMA’s success in organizing the 16th Annual Business Day Conference, promoting the chapter, and recruiting and retaining members. The board’s commitment to community service was also recognized with a nomination for...
Sociology students bring attention to distracted driving
Why do people use cell phones while driving, despite the activity’s classification as a crime? Students in Eve Waltermaurer’s Criminological Theory class explored a variety of theories that explain the behavior, and implemented several real-world solutions to help address the problem. One theory suggests that because distracted driving is viewed as normal in our society, and engaging in that behavior doesn’t break any social norms, the criminality of it isn’t enough to dissuade people from doing it. To get the message out that society does not approve of the behavior, students proposed legislation to create a Distracted Driving Awareness...
Marketing association wins three awards
The SUNY New Paltz chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), which took home a bronze medal at the International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans this year, won more awards at the New Paltz Student Club and Leadership Awards reception held on campus. The AMA received three awards, including the Best Large-Scale Event of the Year, Outstanding Promotional Award, and the Outstanding Recruitment Award. The awards recognize the AMA’s success in organizing the 16th Annual Business Day Conference, promoting the chapter, and recruiting and retaining members. The board’s commitment to community service was also recognized with a nomination for...