Campus News
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UAlbany:
Bigger, Better, Different
(November 22, 2005)
President Kermit L. Hall called for a greater investment in public higher education
in his testimony Oct. 17 at a public hearing before the New York State Senate
and Assembly committees on higher education. More>
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Fall
Faculty Address: Strengthening Enrollment,
Undergraduate Education, and Supporting Faculty
(November 22, 2005)
President Kermit L. Hall gave an update on recent developments at the Fall
Faculty Address Oct. 6 in the Campus Center Ballroom, and then welcomed Provost
Susan Herbst. More>
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Opening of Gen*NY*Sis Center
(November 22, 2005)
Officially, it's known as the University at
Albany's Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in
Cancer Genomics. But for the researchers located
there; the state legislators who saw a need for
it; and the individuals, foundations, and corporations
pledging their financial support, the $45 million
East Campus structure is actually a place of
hope where a cure for cancer may be discovered.
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Snyder Boosts Business School
(November 22, 2005)
When he first arrived on the University
at Albany campus in fall 1979, Norman E.
Snyder, Jr., B.S.'83, never anticipated
that he would be helping the University and
its School of Business score a "hat trick" in
2005. But that's exactly what happened Oct.
17 when Snyder announced that he was making
the largest individual gift ever – $5
million – to establish an endowment
in his name. More>
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Diversity Training
on the UAlbany Campus
(November 22, 2005)
Numerous workshops have been held this
semester on the UAlbany campus to help faculty,
staff, and students strengthen their skills
at getting along with others from ethnic
groups and cultural backgrounds that differ
from their own. More>>
Addressing Personal Safety
Issues on Alumni Quad and Downtown Campus
(November 22, 2005)
Safety at Alumni Quad and around the downtown
area has become a concern for many, though
the number of criminal incidents reported
by the Albany Police Department (APD) involving
UAlbany students for 2005 is down from both
2004 and 2003.
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Responsible
Men Shines
(November 22, 2005)
Assistant Professor of English Edward Schwarzschild
has written a refreshing first novel, Responsible
Men (Algonquin Books, $23.95). More>>
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Dippikill:
50 Years of "Our Own Little Walden"
(November 22, 2005)
One visit to Dippikill and it's easy
to see why alumni, students, faculty, and
staff who come here year after year from
across the country and overseas – as
if making an environmental pilgrimage – call
this special place "the University at Albany's
own little Walden." More>>
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UAlbany Grad Student
Assists on e-Governance in India
(November 22, 2005)
Rockefeller College graduate student Devendra
Potnis was selected as a student intern this
summer by the United Nations' Asia
Pacific Center for Transfer of Technology.
He traveled to India, where he worked on
a few of the challenging e-governance projects
being carried out by the state government
of Karnataka, one of the southernmost states
in India. More>>
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SSW Travels to Peru
(November 22, 2005)
Associate Professor Blanca Ramos traveled
to Peru this summer to meet with faculty
and administrators at four Peruvian universities
to continue exploring collaborative research
initiatives with UAlbany's School of
Social Welfare. More>>
Promising Inventors
(November 22, 2005)
The SUNY-wide patent and inventors recognition
dinner was held Nov. 3 at the Desmond Hotel
in Colonie. President Kermit L. Hall was
the keynote speaker. The following UAlbany
faculty were recognized as promising inventors.
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