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SWYGERT ASSUMES PRESIDENCY AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
H. Patrick Swygert today formally assumed the responsibilities of President of the
University at Albany, becoming the 15th president in the University’s 144-year history.
President Swygert, former Executive Vice President of Temple University in
! Philadelphia, succeeds Vincent O’Leary as head of the 16,000-student campus.
i The 47-year-old educator and law professor, who is married and the father of two
sons, takes over the post four months after the State University of New York Board of
H Trustees unanimously approved his selection. He was one of 200 applicants for Albany’s
I presidency during an eight-month, nationwide search that began last fall.
A graduate of Howard University and its law school, Swygert has held a variety of
positions in academe and the public sector. He was appointed an assistant professor of law
at Temple in 1972 and was made a full professor in 1976. He was chosen by the Carter
Administration in 1977 as general counsel to the U.S, Civil Service Commission and later as
special counsel to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Swygert returned to Temple’s faculty in 1980, eventually becoming special counsel to
the President of Temple, Vice President for University Administration, and, in 1988,
i Executive Vice President. Swygert has also been a visiting professor of law at the
University of Ghana Faculty of Law in Ghana, West Africa, and at Tel Aviv Faculty of
Law, Tel Aviv, Israel.
In addition to his professional pursuits, Swygert has been active on a number of
civic, community and governmental boards. In 1987, Pennsylvania Governor Robert P.
Casey appointed him to the board of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority, which oversees Philadelphia’s mass transit system.
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Outer Solar System Subject of Next Summer Public Science
Lecture Series
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14 at 8 p.m. at the University’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station located on
| Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York, It is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Delano will discuss the latest results of the National
Aeronautics Space Administration’s Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets of
Neptune and Uranus. He has been involved in research studying the cataclysmic
events associated with the origin of these planets nearly 4.5 billion years ago.
Sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, the
lecture series is organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions will begin each lecture,
| Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
i University at Albany Fund, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax
i deductible.
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Adirondack Park Wetlands Topic of Next Summer Public Science
Lecture Series
A presentation on "Adirondack Wetlands Overview: Regulation and Ecology" will
close the 29th season of the Summer Public Science Lecture Series on Tuesday,
August 21 at 8 p.m. at the University at Albany’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station
located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York. The lecture is free and
open to the public.
Danie! Spada, Adirondack Park Project analyst for biological resources, will
discuss the historical usage of the wetlands. His overview will deal with the
regulation of developmental activities in or near the wetlands in the park and with
the ecology of the diverse set of wetlands found there.
Sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, the
lecture series is organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions will begin each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University at Albany Fund, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax
deductible.
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University at Albany Receives Approval
To Offer Unique Ph.D. Program in Information Science
The University at Albany received final approval Thursday to offer a Ph.D.
program in information science that is unique in the nation.
The multi-disciplinary program, which will begin enrolling students this
fall, will prepare individuals for higher-level careers in information
management and policy now emerging in government and the private sector, as
well as careers as teachers and scholars. It involves the collaboration of faculty
from five diverse, but related, disciplines within the University.
"This is a unique, multi-disciplinary program in an important new field -
the scientific study of information," said Thomas J. Galvin, who will serve as
director of the program. Galvin said that, while other universities offer
doctoral-level programs in information science, Albany’s is the only one that
involves such a broad and diverse group of scholarly disciplines.
"It’s an opportunity for us to take the lead, nationally and internationally,
with an innovative program of advanced study and research that capitalizes in
the University’s exceptional strengths in both information science and public
policy," he said.
Galvin said the Ph.D. in information science would draw upon the
resources of the Management Science and Information Systems Department of
the School of Business, the Department of Communication in the College of
Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Department of Computer Science in the
College of Science and Mathematics, the School of Information Science and
Policy, and the Department of Public Administration in the Graduate School of
Public Affairs. Research faculty from several other disciplines will participate
as well.
University President H. Patrick Swygert, who took office on Wednesday,
received word of the program’s approval in a telephone call from the office of
Gov. Mario Cuomo. It was the final step in a lengthy process which also
required approval by the State Education Department and the Board of
Regents.
Galvin said the program would also have a "special concern" for the
management of information in government and for issues of information and
public policy. Senior faculty from the five departments began planning the
program more than four years ago, he said. The first doctoral students are
expected to enroll in the new program in September.
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sciences department at the University, will serve as acting vice president for
research and dean of eraduate studies.
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Top Hungarian Parliamentarians Visit Albany August 11-16
To Study Democracy Under University Program
A delegation of leading Hungarian parliamentarians, including the chief of
staff of the Hungarian Parliament, will visit Albany next week as part of a
US, tour to study the inner workings of democracy.
Members of the press are welcome to cover any part of the Albany tour, For
more information and to make arrangements, contact Linda Gould at the Center
for Legislative Development, part of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs
and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, (518)
442-5247,
The Hungarians are in the United States as participants in a program
administered by the University’s Center for Legislative Development. The
Center, which works to strengthen legislative institutions both here and abroad,
was recently awarded an $850,000 grant by the United States Agency for
International Development to help Hungary build democratic institutions. A
portion of the grant is being used to expose the Hungarian parliamentarians to
legislative institutions in the US.
The Hungarian delegation is comprised of four members of Parliament and
four key staffers, most notably Tibor Soos, the chief of staff of the Hungarian
Parliament. Before coming to Albany, the group attended the National
Conference of State Legislatures’ annual meeting in Nashville. They are
currently in Washington, D.C., where they are participating in a program
arranged by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. The program includes
one-on-one meetings with members of Congress and the Library of Congress, a
visit to the Hungarian Embassy and VIP tours of the White House, Senate and
Capitol.
Highlights of the Albany component of their tour, August 11-16, include:
* A luncheon with University at Albany President Patrick H. Swygert on
Tuesday, Aug. 14, noon, at Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street, followed by a
meeting with Albany Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall.
* Programs at the New York State Senate, the Committee on Ways and
Means, the State Library, the Legislative Library, the Legislative Bill Drafting
Commission and the Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review.
The delegation will also appear in the winner’s circle at the Saratoga Flat
Track on Sunday, Aug, 12, where a feature race has been named in their honor.
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University at Albany To Host Celebration :
The University at Albany will host a celebration in honor of the 1990 winner of
the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, on Thursday,
: August 23 fin 10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Campus Center‘Assembly Hall. The
recipient of the prize will be announced live via global satellite in over 100 major
cities worldwide, The Honorable Michael R. McNulty, United States Congressman
23rd District and member of the House Select Committee on Hunger, will speak
following the announcement.
The global press conference announcing the winner will be broadcast live at
1:00 aim, from Zimbabwe, Czechoslovakia, and the United Nations Headquarters
in New York. The prize is a. $100,000 award given annually to honor a
distinguished African who has exhibited exceptional leadership in ending hunger
at the national, regional or continent-wide level. Previous winners include H.E,
Robert G. Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and Professor Thomas
R, Odhiambo, founding president of the African Academy of Sciences.
The SUNY Coalition for a Just Community, the SUNY Department of
i age African and Afro-American Studies, the local chapter of RESULTS, and the New
York African American Institute are co-sponsoring the event with the Hunger
Project.
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Award-Winning Novelist John Edgar Wideman to Address
University at Albany Freshman Class Sept. 1
Award-winning novelist John Edgar Wideman, who has been called
"perhaps the most gifted black novelist of his generation," will discuss his latest
book, Brothers and Keepers, at the University at Albany on Saturday, Sept. 1.
His talk is part of the freshman class’s orientation to the intellectual and
cultural life of the University. The public is also invited to attend the event,
which is free and will be held at 4 p.m. in the gymnasium.
Earlier Saturday, freshmen will discuss the book in small seminars led‘by
faculty members. Each freshman received a copy of Brothers and Keepers as
required reading during Albany’s two-day orientation program earlier this
summer,
Wideman won the Pen/Faulkner Award for his novel Sent for You
Yesterday in 1984, Brothers and Keepers, a memoir about himself and his
younger brother, Robby, who is serving a life sentence for murder, provides a
gripping account of the racial, social and psychological pressures that engulfed
the younger brother. It also examines the anguish John Edgar Wideman felt in
witnessing helplessly his younger sibling’s fate.
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Sung Bok Kim, dean of undergraduate studies at the University, said a
University-wide committee selected Brothers and Keepers as "an important book _
for intelligent people to read, and to introduce the freshman class to such
highly charged issues as race relations and contemporary social problems." He
noted that the book addressed an important theme of the University’s
orientation this year: cultural diversity.
"We also want to send a message to our students, right from the beginning,
that reading is one of the most important intellectual! functions, and it should
not be taken for granted," he said.
Wideman is a well-known fiction writer who has set many of his books in
the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, Wideman, who studied at the University
of Pennsylvania and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford University, is currently a
professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has
published ten books so far. His brother, Robert, who is ten years younger, is
still in Western State Penitentiary.
This is the third year in which the University has asked the incoming
freshman class to read designated books. The first book was Toni Morrison’s
Beloved, while last year’s class read Jonathan Kozol’s Rachel and Her Children:
Homeless Families in America, and a collection of short stories about South
Africa by Nadine Gordimer called Something Out There.
Brothers and Keepers was selected by a committee of students, faculty
and staff.
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SWYGERT ASSUMES PRESIDENCY AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
H. Patrick Swygert today formally assumed the responsibilities of President of the
i University at Albany, becoming the 15th president in the University’s 144-year history.
President Swygert, former Executive Vice President of Temple University in
Philadelphia, succeeds Vincent O’Leary as head of the 16,000-student campus.
The 47-year-old educator and law professor, who is married and the father of two
sons, takes over the post four months after the State University of New York Board of
Trustees unanimously approved his selection. He was one of 200 applicants for Albany’s
presidency during an eight-month, nationwide search that began last fall.
A graduate of Howard University and its law school, Swygert has held a variety of
| positions in academe and the public sector. He was appointed an assistant professor of law
| at Temple in 1972 and was made a full professor in 1976. He was chosen by the Carter
i Administration in 1977 as general counsel to the U.S. Civil Service Commission and later as
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special counsel to the Merit Systems Protection Board,
Swygert returned to Temple’s faculty in 1980, eventually becoming special counsel to
the President of Temple, Vice President for University Administration, and, in 1988,
Executive Vice President. Swygert has also been a visiting professor of law at the
University of Ghana Faculty of Law in Ghana, West Africa, and at Tel Aviv Faculty of
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In addition to his professional pursuits, Swygert has been active on a number of
civic, community and governmental boards. In 1987, Pennsylvania Governor Robert P.
Casey appointed him to the board of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority, which oversees Philadelphia’s mass transit system.
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i Adirondack Park Wetlands Topic of Next Summer Public Science
Lecture Series
A presentation on "Adirondack Wetlands Overview: Regulation and Ecology" will
close the 29th season of the Summer Public Science Lecture Series on Tuesday,
August 21 at 8 p.m. at the University at Albany’s Whiteface Mountain Field Station
located on Memorial Highway in Wilmington, New York. The lecture is free and
open to the public.
Daniel Spada, Adirondack Park Project analyst for biological resources, will
discuss the historical usage of the wetlands. His overview will deal with the
regulation of developmental activities in or near the wetlands in the park and with
the ecology of the diverse set of wetlands found there.
Sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, the
lecture series is organized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated report on the latest weather conditions will begin each lecture.
Donations to sustain the Public Science Lecture Series may be made to the
University at Albany Fund, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Donations are tax
deductible,
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University at Albany Announces Interim Vice Presidents
Jeanne E. Gullahorn, Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at
the University at Albany, has been named interim Vice President of Academic
Affairs, effective August 22. She will assume the duties previously held by Warren
Iichman, who is now President of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Gullahorn, who has been at the University since 1986, served as acting
Provost of Rockefeller College in 1988-89. She has been on the board of directors
of the SUNY Research Foundation for four years.
Gullahorn has received grants from the National Science Foundation and
National Institute for Mental Health for computer simulation research. She was a
recipient of the Distinguished University Woman Award and Council of Graduate
Students’ Outstanding University Administrator Award. Her scholarly
accomplishments include two books, over 30 journal articles and book chapters as
well as journal editorial board responsibility.
After receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan State University, she
was a professor of psychology and associate dean of the graduate school there prior
to coming to Albany.
Stephen Delong, professor of geology and chairman of the geological
sciences department at the University, will serve as acting vice president for
research and dean of graduate studies.
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Media Advisory
| Top Hungarian Parliamentarians Visit Albany August 11-16
To Study Democracy Under University Program
A delegation of leading Hungarian parliamentarians, including the chief of
staff of the Hungarian Parliament, will visit Albany next week as part of a
US. tour to study the inner workings of democracy.
Members of the press are welcome to cover any part of the Albany tour, For
more information and to make arrangements, contact Linda Gould at the Center
for Legislative Development, part of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs
and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, (518)
442-5247,
The Hungarians are in the United States as participants in a program
administered by the University’s Center for Legislative Development. The
Center, which works to strengthen legislative institutions both here and abroad,
was recently awarded an $850,000 grant by the United States Agency for
International Development to help Hungary build democratic institutions, A
t portion of the grant is being used to expose the Hungarian parliamentarians to
legislative institutions in the U.S.
The Hungarian delegation is comprised of four members of Parliament and
i four key staffers, most notably Tibor Soos, the chief of staff of the Hungarian
t Parliament. Before coming to Albany, the group attended the National
Conference of State Legislatures’ annual meeting in Nashville. They are
currently in Washington, D.C., where they are participating in a program
arranged by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. The program includes
one-on-one meetings with members of Congress and the Library of Congress, a
visit to the Hungarian Embassy and VIP tours of the White House, Senate and
Capitol.
Highlights of the Albany component of their tour, August 11-16, include:
* A luncheon with University at Albany President Patrick H. Swygert on
Tuesday, Aug. 14, noon, at Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street, followed by a
meeting with Albany Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall.
* Programs at the New York State Senate, the Committee on Ways and
Means, the State Library, the Legislative Library, the Legislative Bill Drafting
Commission and the Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review.
The delegation will also appear in the winner’s circle at the Saratoga Flat
Track on Sunday, Aug. 12, where a feature race has been named in their honor.
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~ University at Albany To Host Celebration
The University at Albany will host a celebration in honor of the 1990 winner of
the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, on Thursday,
; August 23 from 10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Campus Center’Assembly Hall. The
recipient of the prize will be announced live via global satellite in over 100 major
_ cities worldwide. The Honorable Michael R. McNulty, United States Congressman
23rd District and member of the House Select Committee on Hunger, will speak
following the announcement.
The global press conference announcing the winner will be broadcast live at
11:00 a.m, from ‘Zimbabwe, Czechoslovakia, and the United Nations Headquarters |
..in New York. The prize is a $100,000 award given annually to honor a
distinguished African who has exhibited exceptional leadership in ending hunger
at the national, regional or continent-wide level, Previous winners include H.E.
Robert G. Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and Professor Thomas
R. Odhiambo, founding president of the African Academy of Sciences.
j The SUNY Coalition for a Just Community, the SUNY Department of
a African and Afro-American Studies, the local chapter of RESULTS, and the New
York African American Institute are co-sponsoring the event with the Hunger
Project.
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Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight or Mary Fiess (518) 442-3091
Award-Winning Novelist John Edgar Wideman to Address
University at Albany Freshman Class Sept. 1
Award-winning novelist John Edgar Wideman, who has been called
"perhaps the most gifted black novelist of his generation," will discuss his latest
book, Brothers and Keepers, at the University at Albany on Saturday, Sept. 1.
His talk is part of the freshman class’s orientation to the intellectual and
cultural life of the University. The public is also invited to attend the event,
which is free and will be held at 4 p.m. in the gymnasium.
Earlier Saturday, freshmen will discuss the book in small seminars led by
faculty members. Each freshman received a copy of Brothers and Keepers as
required reading during Albany’s two-day orientation program earlier this
summer.
Wideman won the Pen/Faulkner Award for his novel Sent for You
Yesterday in 1984. Brothers and Keepers, a memoir about himself and his
younger brother, Robby, who is serving a life sentence for murder, provides a
i gripping account of the racial, social and psychological pressures that engulfed
the younger brother. It also examines the anguish John Edgar Wideman felt in
witnessing helplessly his younger sibling’s fate.
Sung Bok Kim, dean of undergraduate studies at the University, said a
. University-wide committee selected. Brothers and _Keepers.as “an important. book.
for intelligent people to read, and to introduce the freshman class to such
highly charged issues as race relations and contemporary social problems." He
noted that the book addressed an important theme of the University’s
orientation this year: cultural diversity.
"We also want to send a message to our students, right from the beginning,
that reading is one of the most important intellectual functions, and it should
not be taken for granted," he said.
Wideman is a well-known fiction writer who has sct many of his books in
the Homewood section of Pittsburgh. Wideman, who studied at the University
of Pennsylvania and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford University, is currently a
professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has
published ten books so far. His brother, Robert, who is ten years younger, is
still in Western State Penitentiary.
This is the third year in which the University has asked the incoming
freshman class to read designated books. The first book was Toni Morrison’s
Beloved, while last year’s class read Jonathan Kozol’s Rachel and Her Children:
Homeless Families in America, and a collection of short stories about South
Africa by Nadine Gordimer called Something Out There.
Brothers and Keepers was selected by a committee of students, faculty
and staff.
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