Faculty Member's Bequest Helps Two Subjects
When Albert Mossin, former professor of management in the School of Business, passed away earlier this year, he left a bequest of $250,000 to the University for two endowments, one for the School of Business and the other for the physical and life sciences.
Mossin joined the faculty of the University in 1951 and retired from academic life in 1972. During his tenure, he taught both management and business law. He served as chairman of the management department and was instrumental in the formation of the business school in the 1960s. Shortly after its inception, he served as its associate dean and then acting dean prior to retiring.
He was regional president of the Society for the Advancement of Management and a member of its National Board of Governors. An expert on Soviet business practice, Mossin frequently served as an international consultant and speaker. He received his bachelor�s degree from New York University, and his master�s and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His late wife, Rachel, received a master�s degree from Albany in 1964.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, it was announced that Albany would receive $176,138 from a federal agency to support library projects.
The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent agency created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, will award nearly $6.5-million in National Leadership grants to 41 colleges, universities, and other organizations. The awards are aimed at supporting library projects in education research, preservation, or digitization, and library-museum partnerships.
Albany�s grant will be supporting a one-year project to develop and test a descriptive list of national core data elements, statistics, and performance measures. This will be done in order to describe public library network uses and produce a manual describing the resulting elements, statistics, and measures and recommending techniques for data collection.
