April 2011 NewsCenter Archive

Nationally known radio talk show host Kathryn Zox has launched The Social Workers live talk radio show on UAlbany’s WCDB 90.9 FM. The show’s topics include such issues as teenage dating violence, the high-functioning alcoholic, and organ donation.

On Sunday, May 1, the University at Albany Student Association will host the area's first-ever campus walk to benefit the nation’s leading organization dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide, beginning at 3 p.m. in front of the Campus Center Small Fountain.

Vincent O'Leary, who led the University at Albany as president from 1977 to 1990 at a time of major transformation, died Friday, April 22 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, following complications after a fall. He was 86.

Historian Allen B. Ballard and poet Leonard A. Slade Jr. are teaming up to give readings from their latest books on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall at the University at Albany on the uptown campus.

U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko (D-21) will deliver the 27th Annual John E. Burton Lecture at the University at Albany's Page Hall, downtown campus, on April 27. Tonko will discuss "The Assault on The Great American Middle Class: How We Can Fight Back."

"Henry James Senior and a Tragic Event in Academy Park" is the title of a presentation by University at Albany Distinguished Teaching Professor Warren Roberts on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Academy Building, Academy Park, Albany.

University at Albany Associate Professor of History and Interim Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Barry Trachtenberg offers insight into the Holocaust.

UAlbany Professor of History Ron Berger explains the significance of the British Monarchy and the pending royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Berger is an expert in English history, including early modern Britain.

The University at Albany's RNA Institute has recently recruited a new team of research scientists, all specialists in the use of mass spectrometry, to explore and develop the next generation of RNA-based drug therapies specifically targeting infectious diseases, such as HIV.

A UAlbany professor researching the origins of life and an Albany family doctor who makes house calls to the poor and infirm, are among 13 who will be honored with the 2011 University at Albany Alumni Association Excellence Awards.

Eleven students from the University at Albany are among 249 SUNY students across the state honored by Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher as recipients of the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

For 20 years, the UAlbany-based Committee on University & Community Relations has put much work into successfully building stronger relations between off-campus college students and their long-term neighbors.

Master of Fine Arts candidates Paul Bauhs, Suzanne June Boatenreiter, Yaminay N. Chaudhri, Euna Goh, Jelena Opacić, Sara Pruiksma, Georgia Wohnsen and John W. Yost will have the work displayed at the UAlbany Art Museum from April 29th through May 15th as part of the annual Spring MFA Exhibit.

UAlbany School of Business Dean Donald Siegel told a U.S. Congress House Committee on March 31 that two federal programs which support small business growth and innovation, Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer, should be re-authorized, expanded, and improved.

Nine young entrepreneurs ages 10 to 17 who are part of the YEA! Academy at the University at Albany School of Business will present their business plans to a panel of investors on April 13 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in University Hall on UAlbany’s main campus.

University at Albany Associate Professor Lynn Gelzheiser has received a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to research intervention strategies for struggling readers.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer announced a $57.5 million federal grant to the partnership of SEMATECH and UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, along with the University of Central Florida, that will provide a major boost to the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium.

Aging expert Steven Austad found that opossums age at an incredibly rapid rate, turning from adults into decrepit codgers in less than a year. He uses this knowledge to help people see the connections between aging, diet and cancer prevention.

As Medicaid rolls swell and health care expenses balloon across the United States, legislative leaders are grappling with ways to improve health outcomes while reducing costs. UAlbany's Dr. Mary Applegate discusses the role of preventive medicine as a mechanism for improving health.

UAlbany's Student Association and the Office of Environmental Sustainability promoted healthy living and a healthy environment on April 14th with Spring Awakening. The event featured a health and wellness fair, a farmer's market, a clothing exchange and student presentations.