Steven Cohen, a 1982 graduate, has been named managing partner of the Wappingers Falls office of the statewide law firm of Finkelstein Levine Gittelsohn & Partners. Cohen has been with the firm since 1990, focusing on personal injury and consumer related suits.
Howard S. Finkelstein, founder and senior partner of the firm, made the announcement of Cohen�s appointment, and said, "I am extremely pleased to have someone with Steve�s skills and experience, and who resides in the City of Poughkeepsie, serving the community."
Cohen began his career in 1986, prosecuting and defending cases at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a member of the Suffolk University public defenders program in Dorchester District Court, and served as an associate with the law firm of McCabe & Mack in Poughkeepsie. Cohen lives in Poughkeepsie with his wife and three children.
Marjorie Joan McShane, a graduate of the University�s Translation Certificate and Master�s Degree program in Russian, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on April 8, 1998, at Princeton University. She will be awarded a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sophie Lubensky of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures was one of the principle examiners at the defense.
Luce Foundation Funds Fellowships for Two Female Doctoral Physics Students
Clare Boothe Luce
The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. has awarded the University $100,931 to support two graduate fellowships for women in the Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology.
The grant was made through the Foundation�s Clare Boothe Luce Women in Science Program, which aims at encouraging more young women to enter the fields of science and engineering.
For 30 years, Albany�s Department of Physics and its senior faculty members have worked to further the careers of women in physics, and have succeeded in attracting a growing number of students, particularly at the graduate level. Of the 89 graduate students currently enrolled in Albany�s physics doctoral program, 20, or 22 percent, are women. By comparison, nationally, according to the American Institute of Physics, only 16 percent of all physics graduate students are women and only 13 percent of all physics doctorates are being earned by females.
The Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellows at Albany will be engaged in both research and training at the Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, which was established in 1993 to serve industry by pioneering, developing and testing advanced materials within a technically aggressive yet economically competitive research environment.
Luce was a Renaissance woman whose career spanning seven decades encompassed professional achievements in the fields of journalism, politics, theater, diplomacy and intelligence. Under the terms of her will (she died in 1987), she established a legacy to benefit generations of women with talent and ambition in science and engineering, areas where women have been traditionally underrepresented.
Vinny Reda
