Construction of New Administration Building Begins
Work on the new entry/admissions/administration building is now under way in the former east visitor parking area. The first phase of the project involves clearing the site enclosed by the construction fence, excavating for the foundation, and installing utilities. It is estimated that construction of the new building will take two and a half years. Construction vehicles have been authorized to use the east-west access road between State Quad and the building site. Pedestrians and drivers are asked to use caution in this area.

FIVE QUAD: 30 Years of Service
by Greta Petry (October 10, 2003)
If you were having chest pains on the University at Albany campus, who would take you to the hospital? More >>

McNair Focuses on Research
by Greta Petry (October 10, 2003)
AURA URQUIA was looking through a folder in the McNair office on the research experiences of previous McNair scholars when she ran across an article on biologist RICHARD S. ZITOMER that included a photograph of him being hoisted in the air horizontally by his students. More >>

Doctoral Student Juggles Duty, Family, Scholarship, & Publishing
by Carol Olechowski (October 10, 2003)
What does it take for someone to dedicate more than a third of his life to researching and writing about people who struggled a century before he was born to reunify the United States? It takes determination, discipline, and resourcefulness � three of the very same qualities exhibited by the soldiers whose experiences U.S. Army Major and UAlbany graduate student MARK W. JOHNSON recounts in his book That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West, published recently by Da Capo Press. More >>