Administration 233
Albany, New York 12222
ALBANY. news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
Program of Chamber Music To Highlight Students Accomplishments
Students enrolled in violinist Yosef Yankelev’s chamber music workshop this summer at the
University at Albany will showcase their newly developed talents in a recital on Friday,
July 14, at lp.m. in the University’s Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. The event is
free and open to the public.
This program of chamber music ensembles under the direction of Yankelev is designed
to increase the joy of music making and appreciation while raising each performer’s level
of instrumental technique. Yankelev has organized and coached small ensembles focusing
on the string quartet in an intensive program of rehearsal and practice. This concert is
a culmination of what they have learned.
Yankelev is a noted concert artist and innovative teacher of fine music, He has
given numerous concerts both in the United States and abroad as a soloist and as first
violinist with the renowned New World String Quartet and member of the Orpheus Chamber
Ensemble. He has also recently been named concertmaster of the Albany Symphony
i Orchestra.
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A new elementary particle has been discovered by a team of researchers from the
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This newly discovered particle is just one of many so-called elementary particles,
| All these particles are far too small to be directly observed, but, through such
i fof instruments as accelerators and particle detectors, scientists have indirectly observed
some of the elementary particles. Scientists are still searching for evidence of the others
and one goal of the giant $4.4 billion supercollider, slated for construction in Texas, is to
provide new information about the fundamental particles and forces underlying all
matter.
Actually the most basic building blocks of matter are considered to be quarks and
b leptons. These particles are believed to be indivisible. Quarks, of which there are
i believed to be six different types, do not exist freely in nature but only as constituents
; of particles. For example, three quarks make up a proton which resides in an atom’s
nucleus. Of the leptons, the electrons are the most familiar. Different combinations of
quarks are believed to produce a variety of elementary particles.
The new particle discovered by University at Albany physicists and others is a
member of the family of particles known as baryons, The best-known baryons are
! protons and neutrons. As in virtually all particle physics experiments, the researchers
pursued their investigations through collision experiments -- in other words, by hurling
: fast particles at other particles and observing the outcome. In the Cornell Electron
i Storage Ring, at energies of 10.5 billion electron volts, they flung electrons and positrons
at each other and through a specially constructed detector (dubbed Cleon) that measures
the products of the collisions that occur, they discovered the neutral charmed strange
New Particle Page 2
baryon. This baryon is a heavier analog of the neutron but carries the new charges of
strangeness and charm, the fundamental properties (and also names) of two of the
component quarks.
According to Albany Professors C.R. Sun and MS. Alam, "The discovery of this
particle verifies the predictions of its existence by the standard quark model theory. The
quantitative measurements of the properties of this particle open up new fields of
investigation aimed at further development of the theory."
Other researchers working with Sun and Alam were IJ. Kim and X.C. Lou, also
from Albany, V. Tanikella (now at University of Oklahoma, Norman), and John Yelton
of the University of Florida at Gainesville.
Although the search and analysis for this particle was carried out at Albany and
Florida, this effort remains a part of a larger collaboration, the CLEO group, having
members from 12 universities each contributing to the design of the experiment and the
data collection.
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July 14, 1989 89-35
FUNIVERSITY. ATS Administration 233
FUNIVERSITY.ATJ A Albany, New York 12222
ALBANY news
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
contact: Patrick Hunt 442-3070 or Vincent Reda 442-3078
GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS WEIGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Richard Nathan, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of
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Government, announced today the opening of a joint venture in state
information strategy.
| Seventy-five New York State government executives, including Henrik
| Dullea, Director of State Operations, and Patrick Bulgaro, First Deputy Budget
| i Director, are participating in a two-day program, July 18-19, on "Strategic
Information Management" conducted by the New York State Forum for Information
Resource Management, a project of the Rockefeller Institute.
The program is designed to stimulate a strategic information planning
process in state government that takes advantage of modern computing and
communications technologies used in support of government services.
"Information is a key public resource for policy-making,
problem-solving, and service delivery," said Forum Executive Director Sharon
Dawes. "Using information strategically involves building bridges between
organizations and sharing information about services. Information technology
i is a powerful tool for making these connections."
~ The program also connects the public and private sectors through the
support. of three corporations and the Governor's Office of Employee
Relations. GOER Director Elizabeth Moore, in approving a grant for the
program, expressed strong support for the initiative. "GOER has been an
ardent supporter of educating managers on the implications and use of
information technology. It is an area critical to government because the
investment in hardware, which is substantial, must be complemented by an
investment in users and their managers if we are to reap the potential that
technology promises."
Additional support has been contributed by Tandem Computers, whose Vice
President for State and Local Government, Alan Harris, will deliver a talk on
the value-added nature of information technology. Digital Equipment
Corporation, a consistent sponsor of Forum programs, has also contributed.
Ernest & Whinney Partner John Dabolt will deliver the opening lecture:
"Seizing the Initiative: The Strategic Value of Information Resources."
Costis Toregas, President of Public Technologies, Inc. and Michael Hale and
Steve Kolodney, the chief information officers of the states of Florida and
California, will also participate.
The site of the event is the State Parks Management and Research
Institute on the grounds of Saratoga State Park.
duly 14, 1989 89-36
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ATR ANY NY . Albany, New York 12222
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
Enrollment in Summer Sessions Sets Record
The University at Albany has experienced an unprecedented 12 percent increase in
summer course registrations over last year. The summer sessions were expanded from
nine to 12 weeks and the number of courses offered was also increased to handle the
anticipated surge of students.
Through July, registrations have increased from 4,913 to 5,547. The number of
courses being offered also has been increased from 475 taught last year to 555 this
summer, including two all-day physics and chemistry lab sessions. "More courses and
more sessions increases flexibility and allows freedom for other summer commitments
for our varied student body," said Michael DeRensis, director of the Office of
General Studies and Summer Sessions, The 1989 summer program runs 12 weeks, from June
5 through August 25, with sessions offered for three, four or 12 weeks. It is
possible to carn from one to 12 credit hours.
According to DeRensis, because there have been annual increases of approximately
three to four percent over the past few years, the University anticipated much of the
increase this summer and expanded the summer session based upon these projections.
With more students still enrolling for the second session, which is the largest
session, the reality has even exceeded these generous expectations, he said. There
have been increases in every category of study.
The next project for the summer session program will be to facilitate the
enrollment of high school seniors hoping to get a quick start on college, DeRensis
said. "The university has good pre-college programs and could also take introductory
courses and condense them to make them available to high school students," he said.
"This would open the opportunities of the university to a large audience which we
have yet to take advantage of."
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July 14, 1989 89-37
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FUNIVERS | TY ATS . Seigaves — Albany, New York.12222
ABI reves
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore (518) 442-3095
Life of the Loon Topic of the Next Public Science Lecture at
Whiteface Mountain
Well-known author and lecturer Judith McIntyre will give an update on the life of the loon
from Alaska to the Adirondacks at the next presentation of the summer Public Science
Lecture Series at the University At Albany's Whiteface Mountain Field Station.
McIntyre, a professor of biology at Utica College, Utica, N.Y., and author of an article on
loons that appeared in the March 1989 issue of Smithsonian magazine, will illustrate her
lecture will slides from a recently completed trip to Alaska. The lecture will take place at 8
p.m. Tuesday, July 25, at the field station located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington,
N.Y.. The lecture is free and open to the public,
This is the third lecture in the seven-lecture series scheduled to run Tuesday evenings at
I : the field station through August 22. The series is sponsored by the university’s Atmospheric
Sciences Research Center and organized by well-know area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
i Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the University Fund
at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Such gifts are tax deductible.
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Albany, New York 12222
PUNIVERSITYSATS
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Contact: Lisa James (518) mera .,
Dean of School of Public Health at University at Albany
Receives Prestigious Award
Dr. David O. Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the University at
Albany and a research physician at the New York State Department of Health, has been.
awarded the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National
Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke (NINCDS), The
Institute is one of 11 research facilities that make up the National Institutes of
Health in Maryland,
The awards, which honor former U.S, Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York, are given
to investigators who have a distinguished record of substantial contributions in some
field of neurological or communicative sciences and who can be expected to be highly
productive over the next seven years. ©
According to Dr. Car] Leventhal, division director at NINCDS, the awards are
given three times a year with approximately 12 researchers receiving them at a time.
Dr. Carpenter’s grant was approved for a research project that is already three years
old called "Mechanisms of Excitetory Amino Acids Actions and Toxicity," which is the
study of how and why nerve cells die when they are excited through normal mechanisms
.
that are excessive in intensity. This study can prove to be very beneficial because
it relates to Alzheimer’s disease and what happens to the body when this physically
and mentally crippling affliction takes over! br. Carpenter said. The Javits award
will give him more than $625,000 over the next seven years to do his research, There
have been only three of these awards given to researchers in the Albany area.
Dr. Carpenter graduated from Harvard College in 1959 and received his M.D. from
Harvard Medical School in 1964. He chose a career of research, teaching, and public
health, with specific research interest in neuroscience, toxicology and
radiobiology, Since 1980, when he came to Albany as director of the Wadsworth Center
for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, Dr.
Carpenter worked toward the creation in 1980 of a new school of Public Health for the
state,
Before coming to Albany, Dr. Carpenter held positions in Bethesda, Md. as a
neurophysiologist at the National Institutes of Mental Health and then as chairman of
the Neurobiology Department at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. He
functioned as executive secretary for the New York State Power Lines project from
1980-1987 and was responsible for coordination of all aspects of studies, Since that
time Dr. Carpenter has functioned as the principal spokesman for the issues of
possible health hazards from electricity and especially magnetic fields.
July 21, 1989 89-39
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Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore (518) 442-3092
Earthquakes in the East and New York State the Topic of the Next
Public Science Lecture at Whiteface Mountain
Will the Eastern United States and New York state be rocked by a devastating earthquake
in the next century? Some experts are predicting just that, and Michael O’Rourke, associate
professor of civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will look at the
predictions for the next 50 to 500 during the next presentation of the summer Science
Lecture Series on Tuesday, August 1. O’Rourke will also examine the causes and
consequences of earthquakes and discuss ways of minimizing the damage they cause.
This is the fourth presentation in the series, scheduled to run Tuesday evenings
through August 22 at the University at Albany’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station located
on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, N.Y. All lectures begin at 8 p.m. and are free and
open to the public.
The science lectures are sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center and are organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax deductible.
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Explore Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Kayak at the Next Public Science
Lecture at Whiteface Mountain
fj Naturalist Rick Strimbeck will lead a visual tour up Glacier Bay, Alaska, at the next
presentation of the Summer Public Science Lecture Series at the University at Albany’s
Whiteface Mountain Field Station. Located in the southeast portion of the state, Glacier
Bay is a magnificent landscape of change. Two hundred years ago, the 40-mile-long bay
was buried under 2,000 feet of glacier ice. Today a kayak voyage up the bay is like a trip
back in time--10- to 10,000-year-old landscapes, creatures of the intertidal, whales, wolves
| and bears, an enchanted valley and an abandoned gold mine.
Strimbeck, who is currently studying the effects of air pollution on red spruce at
Whiteface Mountain, will present his talk at 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 8, at the field station
located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, N.Y. The lecture is free and open to the
public,
The science lectures are sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences
| Research Center and are organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer, An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax deductible.
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ATR : | news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
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Program of Chamber Music To Highlight Students Accomplishments
Students enrolled in violinist Yosef Yankelev’s chamber music workshop this summer at the
University at Albany will showcase their newly developed talents in a recital on Friday,
July 14, at lp.m. in the University’s Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. The event is
free and open to the public.
This program of chamber music ensembles under the direction of Yankelev is designed
to increase the joy of music making and appreciation while raising each performer’s level
of instrumental technique. Yankelev has organized and coached small ensembles focusing
on the string quartet in an intensive program of rehearsal and practice. This concert is
a culmination of what they have learned.
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Yankelevy is a noted concert artist and innovative teacher of fine music, He has
given numerous concerts both in the United States and abroad as a soloist and as first
violinist with the renowned New World String Quartet and member of the Orpheus Chamber
i Ensemble. He has also recently been named concertmaster of the Albany Symphony
|
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July 12, 1989 89-34
FUNIVERSITY AT] Administration 233
ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Mary Fiess OR Christine Hanson McKnight (518)442-3091
Physicists Discover New Elementary Particle
A new elementary particle has been discovered by a team of researchers from the
University at Albany and several other institutions. The particle is known as the neutral
charmed strange baryon. The existence of this particle has been theorized since 1974, but
only recently were researchers able to confirm its existence through experiments at the
Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).
This newly discovered particle is just one of many so-called elementary particles.
All these particles are far too small to be directly observed, but, through such
instruments as accelerators and particle detectors, scientists have indirectly observed
some of the elementary particles. Scientists are still searching for evidence of the others
and one goal of the giant $4.4 billion supercollider, slated for construction in Texas, is to
provide new information about the fundamental particles and forces underlying all
matter.
Actually the most basic building blocks of matter are considered to be quarks and
leptons, These particles are believed to be indivisible. Quarks, of which there are
believed to be six different types, do not exist freely in nature but only as constituents
of particles. For example, three quarks make up a proton which resides in an atom’s
nucleus. Of the leptons, the electrons are the most familiar. Different combinations of
quarks are believed to produce a variety of elementary particles.
The new particle discovered by University at Albany physicists and others is a
member of the family of particles known as baryons. The best-known baryons are
protons and neutrons. As in virtually all particle physics experiments, the researchers
pursued their investigations through collision experiments -- in other words, by hurling
fast particles at other particles and observing the outcome. In the Cornell Electron
Storage Ring, at energies of 10.5 billion electron volts, they flung electrons and positrons
at each other and through a specially constructed detector (dubbed Cleon) that measures
the products of the collisions that occur, they discovered the neutral charmed strange
New Particle Page 2
baryon, This baryon is a heavier analog of the neutron but carries the new charges of
strangeness and charm, the fundamental properties (and also names) of two of the
component quarks,
According to Albany Professors C.R. Sun and MS. Alam, "The discovery of this
particle verifies the predictions of its existence by the standard quark model theory. The
quantitative measurements of the properties of this particle open up new fields of
investigation aimed at further development of the theory."
Other researchers working with Sun and Alam were IJ. Kim and X.C. Lou, also
from Albany, V. Tanikella (now at University of Oklahoma, Norman), and John Yelton
of the University of Florida at Gainesville.
Although the search and analysis for this particle was carried out at Albany and
Florida, this effort remains a part of a larger collaboration, the CLEO group, having
members from 12 universities each contributing to the design of the experiment and the
data collection.
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Goverment, Cagapess Legh stufirnatios Techwalogy
<a Nathan, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefelier Institute of Government,
announced today the opening of a joint venture in state information strategy. #
Seventy-five New York State government executives, including Henrik Dullea, a
Director of State Operations and ye, First Deputy Budget Director, are
participating in a two-day Programyon "Strategic Information Management"
conducted by the New York State Forurn for Information Rescurce Management, a
project of the Rockefeller Institute,
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state government that takes advantage
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Pare program also connects the public end private sectors through the support of
three corporations and the Governor’s Office of Empioyee Relations. GOER
Director Elizabeth Moore, in approving a grant for the programm expressed strong
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support for the initiative. "GOER has beer ar ardent supporter of educating
managers on the implications and use of information technology, It{s an area
critical to government because the investment in hardware, which is substantial,
must be complemented by an investment in users and their managers if we are to
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Deni support has been contributed by Tandem Computersywhose Vice
President for State and Local Government, Alan Harris, will deliver a talk on the
value-added nature of information technology. Digital Equipement Corporation, a
& Whinney Pariner John Dabolt will deliver the opening lecitsres'Seizing the
Initiative: The Strategic Value of Information Resoureen “~
(casts Toregas, President of Public Technoiogies, fnc, and Michael Hale and Steve
Kolodney, the chief information officers of the ststes of Florida and California, will
also participate.
sn site of the event is the State Parks Managerrest und Research Tastitute on the
grounds of Saratoga State Park.
NIV FUNIVERSITY AT] EY AT Administration 233,
Albany, New York 12222
ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
contact: Patrick Hunt 442-3070 or Vincent Reda 442-3078
GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS WEIGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Richard Nathan, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of
Government, announced today the opening of a joint venture in state
information strategy.
Seventy-five New York State government executives, including Henrik
Dullea, Director of State Operations, and Patrick Bulgaro, First Deputy Budget
Director, are participating in a two-day program, July 18-19, on "Strategic
Information Manag " conducted by the New York State Forum for Information
Resource Management, a project of the Rockefeller Institute.
The program is designed to stimulate a strategic information planning
process in state government that takes advantage of modern computing and
communications technologies used in support of government services.
"Information is a key public resource for policy-making,
problem-solving, and service delivery," said Forum Executive Director Sharon
Dawes. "Using information strategically involves building bridges between
organizations and sharing information about services. Information technology
is a powerful tool for making these connections."
The program also connects the public and private sectors through the
support of three corporations and the Governor's Office of Employee
Relations. GOER Director Elizabeth Moore, in approving a grant for the
program, expressed strong support for the initiative. "GOER has been an
ardent supporter of educating managers on the implications and use of
information technology. It is an area critical to government because the
investment in hardware, which is substantial, must be complemented by an
investment in users and their managers if we are to reap the potential that
technology promises."
Additional support has been contributed by Tandem Computers, whose Vice
President for State and Local Government, Alan Harris, will deliver a talk on
the value-added nature of information technology. Digital Equipment
Corporation, a consistent sponsor of Forum programs, has also contributed.
Ernest & Whinney Partner John Dabolt will deliver the opening lecture:
"Seizing the Initiative: The Strategic Value of Information Resources."
Costis Toregas, President of Public Technologies, Inc. and Michael Hale and
Steve Kolodney, the chief information officers of the states of Florida and
California, will also participate.
The site of the event is the State Parks Management and Research
Institute on the grounds of Saratoga State Park.
July 14, 1989 89-36
C Administration 233
UNIVERSITY ATJ Ae Albany New York 12222
ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
Enrollment in Summer Sessions Sets Record
The University at Albany has experienced an unprecedented 12 percent increase in
summer course registrations over last year. The summer sessions were expanded from
nine to 12 weeks and the number of courses offered was also increased to handle the
anticipated surge of students.
Through July, registrations have increased from 4,913 to 5,547. The number of
courses being offered also has been increased from 475 taught last year to 555 this
summer, including two all-day physics and chemistry lab sessions. "More courses and
more sessions increases flexibility and allows freedom for other summer commitments
for our varied student body," said Michael DeRensis, director of the Office of
General Studies and Summer Sessions. The 1989 summer program runs 12 weeks, from June
5 through August 25, with sessions offered for three, four or 12 weeks. It is
possible to earn from one to 12 credit hours.
According to DeRensis, because there have been annual increases of approximately
three to four percent over the past few years, the University anticipated much of the
increase this summer and expanded the summer session based upon these projections.
With more students still enrolling for the second session, which is the largest
session, the reality has even exceeded these generous expectations, he said. There
have been increases in every category of study.
The next project for the summer session program will be to facilitate the
enrollment of high school seniors hoping to get a quick start on college, DeRensis
said. "The university has good pre-college programs and could also take introductory
courses and condense them to make them available to high school students," he said.
"This would open the opportunities of the university to a large audience which we
have yet to take advantage of."
Seasick
July 14, 1989 89-37
FUNIVERSITY AT] ERSITY Administration 233
Albany, New York 12222
ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore (518) 442-3095
Life of the Loon Topic of the Next Public Science Lecture at
Whiteface Mountain
Well-known author and lecturer Judith McIntyre will give an update on the life of the loon
from Alaska to the Adirondacks at the next presentation of the summer Public Science
Lecture Series at the University At Albany’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station.
McIntyre, a professor of biology at Utica College, Utica, N.Y., and author of an article on
loons that appeared in the March 1989 issue of Smithsonian magazine, will illustrate her
lecture will slides from a recently completed trip to Alaska. The lecture will take place at 8
p.m, Tuesday, July 25, at the field station located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington,
N.Y.. The lecture is free and open to the public.
This is the third lecture in the seven-lecture series scheduled to run Tuesday evenings at
the field station through August 22. The series is sponsored by the university’s Atmospheric
Sciences Research Center and organized by well-know area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the University Fund
at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Such gifts are tax deductible.
ee RRR
July 17, 1989 89-38
FUNIVERSITY AT] Ie Sil YeAds Administration 233
Ry =
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
Dean of School of Public Health at University at Albany
Receives Prestigious Award
Dr. David O. Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the University at
Albany and a research physician at the New York State Department of Health, has been
awarded the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National
Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke (NINCDS). The
Institute is one of 11 research facilities that make up the National Institutes of
Health in Maryland.
The awards, which honor former U.S. Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York, are given
to investigators who have a distinguished record of substantial contributions in some
field of neurological or communicative sciences and who can be expected to be highly
productive over the next seven years.
According to Dr. Carl Leventhal, division director at NINCDS, the awards are
given three times a year with approximately 12 researchers receiving them at a time.
Dr. Carpenter’s grant was approved for a research project that is already three years
old called "Mechanisms of Excitetory Amino Acids Actions and Toxicity," which is the
study of how and why nerve cells die when they are excited through normal mechanisms
that are excessive in intensity. This study can prove to be very beneficial because
it relates to Alzheimer’s disease and what happens to the body when this physically
and mentally crippling affliction takes over, Dr. Carpenter said. The Javits award
will give him more than $625,000 over the next seven years to do his research. There
have been only three of these awards given to researchers in the Albany area.
Dr. Carpenter graduated from Harvard College in 1959 and received his M.D. from
Harvard Medical School in 1964. He chose a career of research, teaching, and public
health, with specific research interest in neuroscience, toxicology and
radiobiology. Since 1980, when he came to Albany as director of the Wadsworth Center
for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, Dr.
Carpenter worked toward the creation in 1980 of a new school of Public Health for the
state.
Before coming to Albany, Dr. Carpenter held positions in Bethesda, Md. as a
neurophysiologist at the National Institutes of Mental Health and then as chairman of
the Neurobiology Department at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. He
functioned as executive secretary for the New York State Power Lines project from
1980-1987 and was responsible for coordination of all aspects of studies. Since that
time Dr. Carpenter has functioned as the principal spokesman for the issues of
possible health hazards from electricity and especially magnetic fields.
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Earthquakes in the East and New York State the Topic of the Next
Public Science Lecture at Whiteface Mountain
Will the Eastern United States and New York state be rocked by a devastating earthquake
in the next century? Some experts are predicting just that, and Michael O’Rourke, associate
professor of civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will look at the
predictions for the next 50 to 500 during the next presentation of the summer Science
Lecture Series on Tuesday, August 1. O’Rourke will also examine the causes and
consequences of earthquakes and discuss ways of minimizing the damage they cause.
This is the fourth presentation in the series, scheduled to run Tuesday evenings
through August 22 at the University at Albany’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station located
on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, N.Y. All lectures begin at 8 p.m. and are free and
open to the public.
The science lectures are sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center and are organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax deductible.
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Explore Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Kayak at the Next Public Science
Lecture at Whiteface Mountain
Naturalist Rick Strimbeck will lead a visual tour up Glacier Bay, Alaska, at the next
presentation of the Summer Public Science Lecture Series at the University at Albany’s
Whiteface Mountain Field Station. Located in the southeast portion of the state, Glacier
Bay is a magnificent landscape of change. Two hundred years ago, the 40-mile-long bay
was buried under 2,000 feet of glacier ice. Today a kayak voyage up the bay is like a trip
back in time--10- to 10,000-year-old landscapes, creatures of the intertidal, whales, wolves
and bears, an enchanted valley and an abandoned gold mine.
Strimbeck, who is currently studying the effects of air pollution on red spruce at
Whiteface Mountain, will present his talk at 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 8, at the field station
located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, N.Y. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
The science lectures are sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center and are organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions begins each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax deductible.
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