News Releases - October 2006
Media Advisory: Emeritus Center
Opens Doors at UAlbany
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 31, 2006) -- The University at Albany Emeritus
Center Grand Opening: A gathering place for
UAlbany Retired Faculty and Professionals
designed to facilitate and promote
interdisciplinary scholarship.
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UAlbany Turns to Local Farmers for
Produce
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 30, 2006) --
The University at Albany's 7,400
dormitory-based students have a bit
more on their plates this fall --
from local farmers. University
Auxiliary Services (UAS), which,
through its Chartwells food service,
handles the food purchasing and
distribution for residence halls and
the Campus Center, is doubling their
purchases of produce from local
farmers for the 2006 semester.
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UAlbany's CEMHD hosts Lecture by
Jos� Calder�n: The Health
Disparities Equation: An
Ethnomedical Perspective
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 26, 2006) --
The University at Albany's Center for
the Elimination of Minority Health
Disparities will host a lecture by
researcher Dr. Jos� Calder�n, the director of the Center
for Cross Cultural Epidemiologic
Studies at the Charles R. Drew
University of Medicine and Science.
The lecture, held on today from 3
p.m. – 4 p.m. in Humanities 290,
will focus on health disparities in
the context of multi-cultural
populations.
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Provost Forms Task Force on
Acquaintance Rape
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 23, 2006) --
University at Albany Provost Susan
Herbst today announced the formation
of a Task Force on Acquaintance
Rape, to convene immediately. The
task force will be led by James A.
Anderson, vice president for Student
Success, and Katharine Briar-Lawson,
dean of the School of Social
Welfare, and will include students,
faculty and staff from throughout
the University and members of the
Albany community.
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Campaign Highlights UAlbany as Great
Starting Point
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 19, 2006) --
Twelve UAlbany alumni who exemplify
the ideal of "Reaching
Higher, Achieving More" began a
visual residency on campus this
month as their images and career
stories were posted around campus on
7-foot-high poster boards in the
Lecture Center area and large tripod
screens in University Hall.
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UAlbany's Northeast Regional
Forensic Institute awarded U.S.
Department of Justice Grant to
Improve Forensic Services
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 18, 2006) --
The University at Albany's Northeast
Regional Forensic Institute (NERFI)
announced today a collaboration with
the New York Prosecutors Training
Institute (NYPTI) to establish a
pilot project for linking the
forensic Laboratory Information
Management System (LIMS) and the
Prosecutor Case Management System (PCMS)
to increase the efficiency,
timeliness and quality of forensic
services offered to the criminal
justice community.
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UAlbany-Albany
High School Alliance for Young
Talent Launches Learning Center
Tutoring Program at Second Annual
Teach-Out
Faculty members
and administrators from both schools
teach classes at Albany High School
on Wednesday, Oct. 18
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 18, 2006) --
As University at Albany faculty and
Albany High School teachers joined
forces Wednesday, Oct. 18, for their
second annual "teach-out" at the
high school, the UAlbany-Albany High
School Alliance for Young Talent
announced another joint effort -- a
new Learning Center tutoring program
for Albany High School students.
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Media Advisory: UAlbany's Northeast
Regional Forensic Institute Awarded
U.S. Department of Justice Grant to
Improve Forensic Services
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 17, 2006) --
Congressman Michael R. McNulty,
Provost Susan Herbst and Northeast
Regional Forensic Institute (NERFI)
director W. Mark Dale will announce
the creation of a new pilot project
developed by NERFI to link the
Laboratory Information Management
System (LIMS) used by forensic labs
to the Prosecutor Case Management
System (PCMS).
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Media Advisory and Photo Op: The
UAlbany-Albany High School Alliance
for Young Talent Will Announce a New
Joint Effort at Second Annual
"Teach-Out"
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 17, 2006) -- The UAlbany-Albany High School
Alliance for Young Talent will announce a
new joint effort at second annual
"Teach-out" at Albany High School.
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NFL Alumni Support
UAlbany's Center for Autism and
Related Disabilities
Grant from
Capital Region chapter to support
Education and Awareness to be
presented at 5th Annual Conference:
Promoting Positive Outcomes for
Individuals with Autism Spectrum
Disorders
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 16, 2006) --
The NFL Alumni, Inc. Upstate New
York Chapter will award the
University at Albany's Center for
Autism and Related Disabilities a
grant to support education and
awareness of autism spectrum
disorders. The $3,250 grant will be
presented during the opening
ceremonies of CARD's
5th Annual
Conference: Promoting Positive
Outcomes for Individuals with Autism
Spectrum Disorders, held
Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the Desmond
Hotel and Conference Center.
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KeyBank Contributes $10,000 to
Support UAlbany Student Athletes
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 13, 2006) --
The University at Albany has
received a $10,000 gift in support
of Student Athletic Scholarships
from KeyBank. The pledge was
presented by Mike Orsino, president,
Capital Region, KeyBank N.A., to Lee
McElroy, vice president for athletic
administration and director of
intercollegiate athletics. The gift
will be applied to the general
scholarship fund in athletics.
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Author Elizabeth Rosner Tours
Capital Region
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 13, 2006) --
The University at Albany Center for
Jewish Studies is organizing an
October 2006 lecture tour by
Elizabeth Rosner, award-winning,
best-selling author of
Blue Nude
(Ballantine Books, 2006) and The
Speed of Light (Ballantine Books,
2001). Rosner will deliver several
presentations in the Capital Region.
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UAlbany Launches "Go Green"
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 13, 2006) --
The University at Albany today
kicked off "UAlbany Goes Green," a
comprehensive environmental
initiative encouraging the
University at Albany faculty, staff,
and students to "think and act
green" by embracing the University's
responsibility to conserve, recycle,
and beautify the campus and
environment.
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Media Advisory:
UAlbany Goes Green
UAlbany kicks off its campus-wide
environmental initiative this week with
student recycling contest, Purple Path
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 11, 2006) -- Kick-off of "UAlbany Goes Green," a
comprehensive environmental initiative
encouraging the University at Albany
community to be a model of environmental
responsibility. An outgrowth of UAlbany's
Task Force on Environmental Sustainability.
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UAlbany Junior Will Komaromi
Receives Prestigious Hollings
Scholarship Award in Atmospheric
Science
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 11, 2006) --
William (Will) Komaromi, a
University at Albany junior
double-majoring in Atmospheric
Science and Physics, has received
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Hollings
Scholarship Award in Atmospheric
Science for his junior and senior
years of study.
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Albany High
Freshmen Get Glimpse of College Life
Albany High
School – UAlbany Alliance for Young
Talent visitors' program will kick
off Thurs., Oct. 12, 9 .a.m. at
University Hall
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 6,
2006) -- Throughout the academic
year, the University at Albany will
host the freshman class of Albany
High School, allowing the younger
students opportunities to interact
with UAlbany students and receive an
early view of the college
experience. The University will host
groups of 30-40 Albany High freshmen
per visit to tour the campus and
discuss course selection, studying,
socializing, and other aspects of
college life with current UAlbany
students. Albany High students will
visit weekly until the entire class
of 900 freshmen have completed the
program.
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National
Institutes of Health Names UAlbany
Cancer Researcher Thomas J. Begley
Outstanding New Environmental
Scientist
Scientist with
Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in
Cancer Genomics awarded $2.2 million
to continue research on molecular
pathways activated by cancer-causing
agents such as cigarette smoke and
pesticides
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 6,
2006) -- Thomas J. Begley, an
assistant professor of biomedical
sciences at the University at
Albany's Gen*NY*Sis Center for
Excellence in Cancer Genomics, was
selected by the National Institute
of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS)
to receive an Outstanding New
Environmental Scientist Award.
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Media Advisory: UAlbany Celebrates
German Jewish �migr� Collection to
Commemorate National Archives Week
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 5,
2006) -- The University at Albany's
M.E. Grenander Department of Special
Collections and Archives celebrates
National Archives Week with
discussions and a featured exhibit
on the mass migration of German and
Jewish exiles during the Nazi regime
and resulting scholarly writings of
the 1920s and 30s. Sponsored by the
University at Albany Libraries,
Center for Jewish Studies, and the
College of Arts and Sciences, the
event is free and open to the
public.
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Media Advisory: Death Penalty Focus
of Albany Symposium on Crime and
Justice
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 4,
2006) -- Albany Symposium on Crime and
Justice: The Next
Generation of Death Penalty Research:
Priorities, Strategies, and an Agenda.
Exploring contemporary death‑penalty laws
and practices with the purpose of setting an
agenda for empirical research in
contributing to changing capital‑punishment
policies.
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UAlbany Awards 15 Inaugural
Scholarships for the Fall 2006
Semester
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 2,
2006) -- Fifteen University at
Albany students are the newest
recipients of awards from the Kermit
L. Hall and Phyllis A. Hall
Inaugural Scholarship Fund, bringing
the total to 19 students. Renamed on
Sept. 18 to honor the late
University president and his wife,
the endowment provides scholarship
support through recognition of
deserving undergraduates.
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