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ALBANY PROFE:! ATTAINS HIGHEST LTURAL POSITION IN SPAIN
University at Albany Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies Manuel Alvar has
been elected President of the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid, the most prestigious
position for a writer or a scholar in the Spanish culture.
The oldest such society in Spanish-speaking countries, the Royal Academy heads all
of the academies throughout Spain and Latin America. Composed of 60 great writers,
literary critics, and linguists, the members of the Royal Academy oversee and edit the
official dictionary, grammar, and syntax of the Spanish language.
In his position as President, Alvar will preside over all sessions of the Royal
Academy, as well as over the Academy’s national prize committee. He will also serve as
its director of publications.
Alvar, a world-renowned Spanish linguist and literary scholar, has written over
100 books and more than 500 published articles, He has lectured on linguistics
throughout Europe and the US. This last year, he traveled to China, Korea and the
Caribbean representing the linguistic Hispanic tradition.
According to University at Albany Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies Chair
Alicia Monguio, Alvar is the first full-time member of a faculty at an American
university to be President of the Royal Academy, created in Madrid in the 18th
Century, At Albany, he teaches courses in Spanish linguistics, as well as Medieval,
Golden Age, Latin American, and Contemporary Spanish Literature.
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University Vice President Is Elected To Two National Association Posts
Dr. Jeanne E. Gullahorn, vice president for research at the University at Albany,
has been elected to the Senate of the National Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges, The association, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., is
an important voice for public universities.
Gullahorn, who also serves as Albany’s dean of graduate studies and acting
provost of Rockefeller College, has also been elected to serve from 1989 to 1991 on
the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools, a national association of
approximately 400 graduate degree-granting universities.
A specialist in social psychology, Gullahorn assumed her position as vice
president for research at the University two years ago. Before coming to Albany, she
served as associate dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University. She
resides in Loudonville.
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BAILUS WALKER JR. NAMED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES COMMISSION
Dr. Bailus Walker Jr. has been named to the National Academy of Sciences Commission
on the Practice of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. A new panel, the Commission
will seek ways to improve the identification and recognition of diseases of
environmental and occupational origin.
The Commission will work to prevent and control disease, dysfunction, and premature
deaths caused by environmental agents, said Walker. The causes of disease are not often
easily determined, and are even more difficult to detect when the disease is suspected
of originating in the workplace or induced by exposure to contaminants, he said.
Walker, professor of environmental health and toxicology at the University at
Albany’s School of Public Health, is a leader in field. The immediate past president of
the American Public Health Association, he recently served on the National Academy of
Sciences Commission on the Future of Public Health. Its recent report on the current
state of the nation’s public health system recommended strategies for making the system
more effective. Earlier this year, Walker was also named to the federal Council on
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Otis Bowen.
A pioneer in the field, Walker has been the chief public health official in Ohio,
New Jersey, Michigan, and Massachusetts. He has served as director of Occupational
Health Standards at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, where he helped
develop the nation’s first policy regulating potential carcinogens in the workplace. He
also wrote the first federal hazards information rule, designed to ensure that workers
know about the dangers of chemicals found in their work environments.
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