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Campus News
UAlbany's Edgardo Sosa Wins
Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
(May 5, 2005)
UAlbany junior Edgardo Sosa says his selection as a Goldwater Scholar is "a
dream come true." More>>
 Marietta
Holley's Wit and Spunk Revisited
(April 8, 2005)
Marietta Holley is making a comeback, if
Kate Winter has her way. More>>
President Hall Plans to Refocus
Fund-raising to Enhance Student Success
(April 8, 2005)
President Kermit L. Hall has announced plans to retire UAlbany's Bold.Vision.
campaign and refocus the University's fund-raising efforts to place greater emphasis
on scholarships and academics with the goal of enhancing student success. More>>
Winners of Excellence Awards are Announced
(April 8, 2005)
Each year, the University at Albany honors special
members of its community with Excellence Awards
denoting exceptional contributions to the life
of the campus. Twenty-three faculty members received
this tribute in 2005.
More>>
 Reclaiming Fountain Day as
a UAlbany Tradition
(April 8, 2005)
This year’s Fountain Day, Sunday, April
17, is about restoring pride in the event and
having a fun and safe celebration. More>>
 UAlbany
Students Help "Digital
Youth" Succeed
(April 8, 2005)
Cat Provost is one of 12 University at Albany interns who are helping high school
students acquire job skills through the NY Wired for Education Digital Youth
2005 Certification Program. More>>
 IFW "Was There like an Angel" for
UAlbany Doctoral Student
(April 8, 2005)
Nancy Belowich-Negron, director of Disabled Student Services, recalled the power
of what an Initiatives For Women (IFW) grant can do, at the March 10 Winter Forum.
More>>
President's Awards for Leadership
winners
(April 8, 2005)
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From left, Florencia
Cornet, Tamara Smith, and Maria Onetti-Bischoff
were three of six graduate students who,
for the first time ever, were presented the
President’s
Awards for Leadership March 6. Also receiving awards were Larri Fish, Joshua
Hewitt, and Susan McCormick. There were 94 award winners, among them 17 recipients
of the Outstanding Senior Awards. Outstanding seniors were: Harriet Adjei; Holly
Betros; Glory Carrion; Brian DePersiis; Franco Dispenza; Lisa Fund; Wendy Hale;
Stephanie LaFond; Dan Qing Li; Jeffrey Locke; Priya Mehra; Monika Moraucik; Marcia
Persaud; Catherine Provost; Jared Sint; Dara Stofenberg; and Amina Watkins. |
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Faculty/Staff
News
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School of Social Welfare
Dean Katharine Briar-Lawson was
elected president of the National Association
of Deans and Directors of
Schools of Social Work
(NADD) at its annual
meeting in March. Since
2001, she has co-chaired
the NADD Gerontological Task and she is
collaboratively spearheading the development
of a NADD Leadership Academy.
SSW Associate Dean and Professor Anne
E. (Ricky) Fortune has been elected
president of the Society for Social Work
and Research (SSWR) for 2005-'06. SSWR was
founded in 1994 as a professional organization
for social work researchers.
School of Education Dean
Susan D. Phillips has
been appointed by the NYS Regents to the
New York State Professional Standards and
Practices Board for Teaching. The board serves
the Regents and the Commissioner of Education
on matters associated with teaching and related
professions in New York State.
The University
Police Department (UPD)
has won the International Association of
Chiefs of Police 2005 Award for Excellence
in Technology in the category of information
technology. Aran Mull and Tom Kilcullen were
cited for their efforts in developing a cost-effective
and agency-specific comprehensive data management
system.
Leonard
A. Slade, Jr., professor and
chair of the Department of Africana Studies
and adjunct professor of English, was elected
at the Modern Language Association (MLA)
convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in December
2004 by the Division on Black American Literature
and Culture's Executive Committee to serve
as the division's representative in the MLA
Delegate Assembly. His three-year term of
office began in January.
Professor of English Judith
Johnson's new book Cities
of Mathematics and Desire (The Sheep
Meadow Press, 2005) has won the Poetry
Society of America's Di Castagnola Award
for best poetry manuscript. The new volume
reads like a form of spoken opera, with
its many characters and conflicts, arias,
and choral ensembles. The title poem of
the collection is a meditation on love,
chaos theory, and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova
and Guillaume Apollinaire.
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