Students in the News The following students each received a $575 Jim Fredericks Student Employee Scholarship from Campus Auxiliary Services: Julie Caputo ’09 (Childhood Education, 1-6 English) Cynthia Carangelo ’09g (Music Therapy) Chris Cirincione ’09g (Business Administration) Paula Clay ’10 (Childhood Education, 1-6 English) Vixon Johns ’09 (Journalism) Melissa Mizerak ’10 (Pre-Art Education) Sriharsha Neelamraju ’11 (Electrical Engineering) Amber Orsino ’11 (Pre-Art) Viviana Quinones ’09 (Psychology) Allison Zaleznick ’09 (Childhood Education, 1-6 English) Each applicant had to write a statement about why working in auxiliary services has been a positive experience. All full-time, New Paltz students who receive paychecks...
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
Publications
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PUBLICATIONS Giordana Grossi (Psychology), Jeremy Murphy ’06 (Psychology) and Josh Boggan ’04 (Psychology) published “Word and Pseudoword Superiority Effects in Native Italian-English Bilinguals” in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Eugene Heath (Philosophy) co-edited a collection of essays, “Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society,” which was recently published by Pickering and Chatto (London, 2009). This is Heath’s second collection on Ferguson, an 18th-century philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. Gerald Sorin (History/Jewish Studies) has an essay, “American Jews and Radicalism,” appear in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. His review essay on A.B. Yehoshua’s latest novel, “Friendly Fire,” was published in...
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PUBLICATIONS John Langan (English) had an article, “‘Through the Gates of Darkness’: The Cosmopolitan Gothic of J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker,” published in Studies in the Fantastic. Clifford Opurum (Economics) recently published a chapter, titled “Globalization and Regional Integration: The ECOWAS Model, in the textbook Globalization of Business: Theories and Strategies for Tomorrow’s Managers. Gerald Sorin (History) recently had two articles, “Bernard Malamud” and “World of Our Fathers,” published in the Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture. His review essay on A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, “Friendly Fire,” has been published in the November issue of Ha’aretz Books....
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PUBLICATIONS David Appelbaum (Philosophy) published a new book, “Jacques Derrida’s Ghost: A Conjuration” (SUNY Press, 2009). It addresses three key themes of the late philosopher’s work: the other, death and mourning. In its manner of writing about these themes, the book responds to Derrida’s own reflections on how philosophy is written. On Dec. 4, Appelbaum gave a brief talk about the book on campus. Brian Obach (Sociology) published a book chapter, titled “Labor and the Environment,” in 20 Lessons in Environmental Sociology (Oxford 2009).
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PUBLICATIONS Daniel Freedman (Chemistry), Matthew Buck ’08 (Chemistry) and Lucas Vandenburgh ’08g (Education) published “Preparation, Separation, and Characterization of Ruthenium(II) Thiocyanate Linkage Isomers” in the American Chemical Society journal, “Inorganic Chemistry.” Howard Good’s (Communication and Media) poems have recently appeared in such publications as “whispers & ,” “Origami Condom,” “Waterlogged August,” “The Honey Land Review,” “Neon” and “qarrtsiluni.” Aaron Haselton (Biology) wrote a paper, titled “FMRFamide-Like Immunoreactivity in the Central Nervous System and Alimentary Tract of the Non-Hematophagous Blow Fly, Phormia Regina, and the Hematophagous Horse Fly, Tabanus Nigrovittatus,” with John Stoffolano and Chih-Ming Yin at the University of...
Planting for a festive future
More than 100 administrators, faculty, staff and students planting 5,000 tulip bulbs near the Haggerty Administration Building parking lot on Oct. 30. In the spring of 2009, the bulbs will produce red and yellow flowers to mark the Hudson Quadricentennial next year. The college received the bulbs from the Ulster County Quadricentennial Committee.
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PUBLICATIONS Victor de Munck (Anthropology) published “Self, Other and the Love Dyad in Lithuania: Romantic Love as Fantasy” and “Reality (Or, When Culture Matters and Doesn’t Matter),” in a volume titled, “Intimacy.” He also wrote a book in Lithuanian titled (as translated in English), “Researching Culture: Comparative and Ethnographic Approaches. Heather Hewett (English,Women’s Studies) published an essay, “Of Motherhood Born,” in Mothering in the Third Wave. Edward Lundergan (Music) had an article, “Christ’s Nativity: An Early Choral Suite by Benjamin Britten,” published in the June/July issue of the Choral Journal. Greta Winograd (Psychology) and Patricia Cohen and Henian Chen...
One Book, One New Paltz features local author
A local author is sharing her story with the New Paltz community for this year’s One Book, One New Paltz program. Ulster County resident Laura Shaine Cunningham’s memoir, “Sleeping Arrangements,” will be the focus of on- and off-campus events from Nov. 16 to 23. Cunningham said she felt “complete joy and amazement” at having her work selected for the community wide project. “The experience of having an entire community reading and discussing my work makes me feel at home,” she said. In addition to attending the on-campus keynote event at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19, the author said...
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PUBLICATIONS Eugene Heath (Philosophy) published an essay, “Proscription, Prescription or Market Process?” in the collection The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, which was edited by Robert W. Kolb for Blackwell. John Langan (English) had his novella, “How the Day Runs Down,” appear in the new anthology, The Living Dead, published by Night Shade Press. The anthology features such writers as Sherman Alexie, Stephen King and Kelly Link.