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Albany Atmospheric Scientist Receives Prestigious National Awards
Daniel Keyser, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany, has been
honored by the American Meteorological Society for outstanding research into the
nature of frontal systems, particularly the dynamics of air motions associated with
such systems.
Keyser was presented with the society’s annual Clarence. Leroy Meisinger Award for
his "studies improving our understanding of mesoscale circulation systems." In
selecting recipients of the honor, the American Meteorological Society gives
preference to "promising atmospheric scientists thirty-five years of age or younger
who have recently shown outstanding ability."
Keyser also received the Editor’s Award "for providing exceptionally meritorious
reviews of manuscripts submitted to the (society’s) Monthly Weather Review." Keyser
serves as an associate editor of that publication.
Keyser, who joined the Albany faculty in September 1987, is an associate
professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science. For six years before coming to
Albany, Keyser was a staff scientist with the Severe Storms Branch of the Laboratory
for the Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Through his investigations of air motions in fronts, Keyser is trying to learn
more about the environment in which cloud and precipitation systems form. His
research contributes to the synthesis of conceptual models of the structure and
behavior of fronts and extratropical cyclones. Those models, in conjunction with
computer models, are used by forecasters to analyze current weather and develop
predictions for periods of up to several days.
Keyser, of Delmar, may be reached at (518) 442-4559,
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NIVERSITY AT ALBANY LECTURE F SES ON
DISTURBING CHANGES IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
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world authc-ity on atmospheric chemistry, will discuss the disturbing changes taking
place in our atmosphere as a result of human activities, on Tuesday, April 18, at the
University at Albany.
Mohnen’s presentation, at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 7, will explore the
consequences of man’s interference with the processes that maintain life on Earth,
! including the global warming due to the greenhouse effect, the ozone build-up near the
Earth’s surface and acid rain. i
The lecture is part of the Natural History Lecture Series sponsored by thé
University at Albany and the State Department of Environmental Conservation. A brief
synopsis of the day’s weather will precede the lecture using color projections. The
lecture is free and open to the public.
Donations to sustain the Natural History Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund."
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AFRICAN STUDIES SCHOLAR TO LECTURE ON APRIL 25
Dr, Ivan Van Sertima, professor of African Studies at Rutgers University
and author of the’ book, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in
Ancient America, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, in the Recital Hall
of the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany. His presentation,
which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the University’s
Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
A literary critic, linguist and anthropologist, Van Sertima is the editor
of the Journal of African Civilization. He was asked by the Nobel Committee of
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Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind,
i Van Sertima has edited a number of anthologies which describe the early
presence of Africans in Europe and Asia and present the history of Blacks in
science, black women in antiquity and great black leaders both ancient and
modern.
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Room 209, Husted Hall, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222 @ 518/442-5616
Chair
Vincent O'Leary
Task Force Chairs
Charles Buchanan
Steven Fischer
Lorna McBarnette
Committee
James A, Ader
Betty Barnette-
Willard Bruce.
John Dale
Dorinda Davis
Ward DeWitt
Lucretia Finkel
Judith Greenwood
Dewey Hill
Hon, John £. Holt-Harris, Jr.
Rev. Dominic Ingemie
Linda Jackson-Chalmers
Henry Landau
Edith Leet
>t. Marguerite Lodico
yames P, McCaffrey
David R. McGulre
Barbara O, O’Heaney
William Phillips
Anne Pope
Or. Arlene Reed-Delaney
Executive Director
Sara Sibley Lundine
Assistant Director
Anne McGill Franzen
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Administrative Assistant
Yolanda Hutson
Contact: Sara Sibley Lundine (518) 442-5616
PUBLIC HEARINGS SET FOR
ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PLANNING GROUP
The future of Albany Public Schools is the subject of three
public hearings scheduled for Saturday, April 22, Wednesday, April 26,
and Monday, May |, The meetings are sponsored by The Strategic
Planning Committee of the Albany City School District to provide
parents and area residents with information about the work of the
committee and to solicit comments and ideas about issues affecting
Albany Public Schools.
The Saturday, April 22, meeting will be held from 10 a.m, until
noon at the Giffin Memorial Elementary School, 274 South Pearl
Street. This first meeting will be hosted by the committee’s System
Administration Task Force,
All three meetings will present a broad overview of the
committee’s work and will accept comments and testimony on any subject
dealing with Albany Public Schools,
The Wednesday, April 26, hearing will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
at the Thomas S. O’Brien Elementary School, School 24, at Lincoln
Park, The meeting will be hosted by the committee’s Elementary
Education Task Force,
The Monday, May 1, hearing will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at
the Philip Livingston Middle School, 315 Northern Boulevard. The
meeting will be hosted by the committee’s Secondary Education Task
Force.
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The 25-member panel, composed of state, county and city officials, teachers,
business leaders, parents and school administrators, was selected by the district
school board in December to develop a long-term plan for improving the City’s
public school system,
Vincent O'Leary, president of the University at Albany, is the chair of the
committee, Charles Buchanan, vice president of Albany. International Inc. and
co-chair of the district’s business alliance program, is the chair of the
committee’s System Administration Task Force. Lorna McBarnette, executive deputy
commissioner for the state Health Department, is the chair of the committee’s
Elementary Education Task Force. Steven Fischer, president of the Albany
accounting firm Urbach, Kahn & Werlin, is the chair of the committee’s Secondary
Education Task Force,
In addition to the public hearings, the committee will accept written
comments which may be mailed to: Strategic Planning Committee, Albany City School
District, Room 209, Husted Hall, University at Albany, State University of New
York, Albany, New York 12222, Tel No. 442-5616,
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New Program Aims to Nurture Aspiring Minority Scientists
The University at Albany is launching a new program aimed at increasing the number
of minority students who pursue graduate education in science and mathematics. The
program will give promising minority undergraduates the chance to work one-on-one
with Albany faculty in University laboratories this summer,
The University was awarded a $97,000 grant from the federal Department of
Education to finance the program for black, Hispanic and American Indian students.
Those three minority groups are seriously underrepresented in the fields of science
and mathematics. In 1986, for example, minority Americans received fewer than two
percent of the doctorates awarded to US, citizens in pure mathematics and in
computer science; of the doctorates in biological sciences, minorities were awarded
fewer than 3.4 percent.
"Our principal goal is to instill in the participants an excitement about
research. We also want to enable the participants to become sophisticated applicants
to graduate school, and to develop and improve skills in analytical thinking,
writing, oral communication, and, in some cases, mathematics," says Dr. Daniel Wulff,
dean of the University’s College of Science and Mathematics and co-director of the
program. The other co-directors are Dr. Bailus Walker Jr., a distinguished professor
in the University’s School of Public Health, and Yolanda Nix, director of the
University’s Office of Minority Affairs.
Twenty-six minority science and mathematics students, 10 from historically black
colleges and 16 from colleges throughout New York State, will be chosen for the
nine-week program on the basis of promise for success in graduate education. The
program will cover room and board, tuition and transportation costs for each student
and provide need-based stipends of up to $2,000.
Each student, under the one-on-one guidance of a faculty mentor, will do an
original research project; the research areas range from gene expression and acid
Minority Science Program Page 2
rain to computational logic and occupational diseases, Twenty-six Albany faculty
members have volunteered to serve as mentors in the program and each has outlined
research opportunities in his or her area.
Besides carrying out an original research project, the students will be expected
to regularly communicate results both orally and in writing; they will be asked to
prepare a written report of their summer research project in the style of a
scientific journal article. Faculty mentors will work with the students to ensure
proper format and good English usage and style.
Students will also be expected to attend two weekly seminar series, one on
research and one on practical concerns for prospective graduate students. Upon
satisfactory completion of the program, students will receive three or four credits.
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LYNX RESTORATION
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Can the lynx be restored to the Adirondacks?
i Rainer Brocke and Kent Gustafson of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry Adirondack Wildlife Program at Syracuse, will present an illustrated lecture
| on their current efforts to restore the lynx to the Adirondack High Peaks Region. Their
lecture, the last of the Spring Natural History Lecture Series at the University at
Albany, will discuss the animal and the restoration project. The Canada lynx, close
relative of the bobcat, formerly occupied an area which included northern New York
State. So far 18 lynx have been released in the project.
The lecture, which is sponsored by the University at Albany and the State
Department of Environmental Conservation, will be on Tuesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in
Lecture Center 7 at the University. As in the past, a synopsis on the latest-weather
will be given before the lecture, The lecture is free and open to the public.
Donations to sustain the Natural History Lecture Series may be made to the
i University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Such gifts are tax
ft deductible.
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ALBANY FACULTY, STAFF, DESIGNATED FOR EXCELLENCE
Twelve University at Albany faculty and staff members have been cited for excellence
and distinguished service by this year’s State University of New York Chancellor’s Awards for
Excellence.
Named for Excellence in Librarianship were University Library Associate Librarians
Marjorie A. Benedict and Judith A, Hudson, Excellence in Professional Service Awards went to
John A. Martone, assistant vice president for the Office of Residential Life; Gregory I.
Stevens, assistant dean in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts; and Georgiana M. Cietck,
' project manager for the University’s Student Information Records System.
Recipients of the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Awards are Peter A. Bloniarz,
associate professor of Computer Sciences; Edna Acosta-Belen, associate professor of Latin
American and Caribbean Studies; Marvin D. Krohn, associate professor of Sociology; Phillip J.
Cooper, associate professor of Political Science; Raymond E. Benenson, professor of Physics;
and Shelton Bank, professor of chemistry.
Named by the SUNY Trustees as a Distinguished Service Professor was Richard H.
Hall, professor of Sociology.
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"Photovoltaics: An Emerging Opportunity”
A Conference Sponsored by the Atmospheric Science Research Center
International lecturer Dr. Paul McCready will be the keynote speaker for "Photovoltaics:
An Emerging Opportunity," a conference designed to inform government and industry about
the possibilities of commercially developing photovoltaics in New York State. The
conference, partially sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the
University at Albany, will be held on Monday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 10 at the Desmond
Americana, Albany Shaker Road, Albany.
Photovoltaics, a renewable energy resource created by converting sunlight to
electricity, is a clean, economical and reliable alternative to oil. Developed in the’
1950s, photovoltaics has been commercially marketed only within the past decade. The ASRC
implemented the use of PV panels to power the communications systems at the 1980 Winter
Olympics in Lake Placid. And even more recently it operated atop the Avery Fisher Hall at
| Lincoln Center in Manhatten in an experiment by the ASRC designed to monitor the
performance of several photovoltaic configurations in an urban environment. This project
was supported by the New York Power Authority.
Dr. MacCready, President of AeroVironment, Inc., worked with Dupont in developing
the Solar Challenger, This aircraft, powered solely by sunbeams, was piloted 163 miles
, from Paris to England in 1981 at an altitude-of 11,000 feet. He has been honored with the
Engineer of the Century Gold Medal, the Lindbergh Award and the Collier Trophy. Other
speakers include Dr. Edgar A. DeMeo, of the Electric Power Research Institute; Dr. Bernard
Gillespie, President of Mobil Solar Energy Corporation; and Dr. Robert A. Stokes, Deputy
Director of SERI.
The conference will include a variety of speakers presenting topics including,
Photovoltaics: Today’s Realities, Tomorrow’s Expectations; Regional Impact: Photovoltaic
Application Penetration; and Policy Directions for 1990-2000: Market Development.
In conjunction with the ASRC, the conference is sponsored by The New York State
Energy Office, Mobil Solar Energy Corporation, The New York State Power Authority and the
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
Registration fee for the two-day conference is $50. For an application and
additional information contact Ronald Stewart or Richard Perez at (518) 442-3800, The
Atmospheric Research Center, 100 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12205.
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PROFESSOR LEONARD SLADE WILL RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATE
Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr., chair of the Department of African
and Afro-American Studies at SUNY-Albany, will be awarded an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Kentucky State University's
Commencement on May 14th.
Slade earned the Ph.D. degree in English at the University of
Illinois. He has also studied at Bennington College in Vermont, at
American University, Washington, D.C., and at the University of Ghana
in West Africa. Dr. Slade was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year
at Kentucky State University. The Past National President of Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society, which has a membership of 43,000, Dr. Slade
has been a speaker at a number of colleges and universities,
including Ohio State University, the University of Kentucky, Eastern
Kentucky University, the University of Tennessee, the University of
Arkansas, Texas Southern University, Williams College, among others.
The recipient of several University Fellowships and Grants, he has
more than 90 publications to his credit. Fifty of his poems have
appeared in various journals during the past three years, including
The Communicator, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, The Griot: The
Jour: ro-American Studies, The Kentucky Poetry Review,
Prophetic Voices: An International Literary Journal, Testimony:
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Journal of African-American Studies, River City Review, The Black
Scholar, The Courier-Journal, to name a few. His essay on "America"
appeared in the December, 1986, issue of U.S. News and World Report.
His book of poetry, Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer, was
published by Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc., in Spring 1988. Of this
book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Poet, has written: "Another
Black Voice: A Different Drummer, is a brave expression of
excitements deeply felt, and good sense meticulously rendered. Slade
is a committed poet from whom many important works may be expected."
His second book of poetry, The Beauty of Blackness, will be published
in 1989.
Dr. Slade is the author of two other books, Critical Essays
on Language and Literature and A Selected Working Bibliography of
Twenty-Four American Authors. One of his speeches, "Quality
Education: A Unified Thrust," appears in a college textbook,
Speech As An Art. One of his poems, "Elegy for Therman B.
O'Daniel,;" has been set to music by Grace Yin, a Ph.D. in Music
Composition from the University of California at Los Angeles and a
Professor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore.
Dr. Slade was president of the Student Government Association
in college and appeared on the Voice of America Program. He has
twice received the National Association for Equal Opportunity in
Higher Education Award from Washington, D.C. He was Professor of
About Slade's Poetry
",..another informed and articulate voice."
Wade Hall
The Courier-Journal
"...a rhythmical and powerful voice we will long remember."
Thelma Scott Kiser
The Independent
",..the best of his poems are authentic and joyous celebrations of
the human spirit."
Ruthe Sheffey, Editor
The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
",,..a talented, musing poet whose work, at its best, is evocative
without ambiguity, surprising and compelling in its imagery, and
satisfying and provoking in its exploration of human experience."
Jerry Trammell
The Griot: The Journal of Afro-American Studies
",..a brave expression of excitements deeply felt and good sense
meticulously rendered."
Gwendolyn Brooks
Pulitzer Prize Poet
"When the rest of us became bitter, angry, vindictive, and hostile,
Slade always had that something within which elevated him above the
mire and muck. That something comes through in the quality of his
poetry."
Warren C. Swindell, Professor
Indiana State University
"Slade's poetry can pierce the heart or kiss the soul."
Kate Stephens
Lexington, Kentucky
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Albany Atmospheric Scientist Receives Prestigious National Awards
Daniel Keyser, an atmospheric scientist at the University at Albany, has been
honored by the American Meteorological Society for outstanding research into the
nature of frontal systems, particularly the dynamics of air motions associated with
such systems,
Keyser was presented with the society’s annual Clarence. Leroy Meisinger Award for
his "studies improving our understanding of mesoscale circulation systems." In
selecting recipients of the honor, the American Meteorological Society gives
preference to "promising atmospheric scientists thirty-five years of age or younger
who have recently shown outstanding ability."
Keyser also received the Editor’s Award "for providing exceptionally meritorious
reviews of manuscripts submitted to the (society’s) Monthly Weather Review." Keyser
serves as an associate editor of that publication.
Keyser, who joined the Albany faculty in September 1987, is an associate
professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science. For six years before coming to
Albany, Keyser was a staff scientist with the Severe Storms Branch of the Laboratory
for the Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Through his investigations of air motions in fronts, Keyser is trying to learn
more about the environment in which cloud and precipitation systems form, His
research contributes to the synthesis of conceptual models of the structure and
behavior of fronts and extratropical cyclones. Those models, in conjunction with
computer models, are used by forecasters to analyze current weather and develop
predictions for periods of up to several days.
i Keyser, of Delmar, may be reached at (518) 442-4559.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY LECTURE FOCUSES ON
DISTURBING CHANGES IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
What is our responsibility for good global housekeeping?
Volker Mohnen, former director of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and
world authority on atmospheric chemistry, will discuss the disturbing changes taking
place in our atmosphere as a result of human activities, on Tuesday, April 18, at the
University at Albany.
Mohnen’s presentation, at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 7, will explore the
consequences of man’s interference with the processes that maintain life on Earth,
including the global warming due to the greenhouse effect, the ozone build-up near the
Earth’s surface and acid rain,
The lecture is part of the Natural History Lecture Series sponsored by the
University at Albany and the State Department of Environmental Conservation. A brief
synopsis of the day’s weather will precede the lecture using color projections, The
lecture is free and open to the public.
Donations to sustain the Natural History Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund,"
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Contact: Vince Sweens* (518) 442-3075
AFRICAN STUDIES SCHOLAR TO LECTURE ON APRIL 25
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima; professor of African Studies at Rutgers University
and author of the book, They ne Before Columbus: The Afri Presence in
Ancient America, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, in the Recital Hall
of the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany. His presentation,
which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the University’s
Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
A literary critic, linguist and anthropologist, Van Sertima is the editor
of the Journal of African Civilization, He was asked by the Nobel Committee of
the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature
from 1976-1980 and was appointed by UNESCO to the International Commission for
Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind.
Van Sertima has edited a number of anthologies which describe the early
presence of Africans in Europe and Asia and present the history of Blacks in
science, black women in antiquity and great black leaders both ancient and
modern,
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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Mary Fiess (442-3091)
New Program Aims to Nurture Aspiring Minority Scientists
The University at Albany is launching a new program aimed at increasing the number
of minority students who pursue graduate education in science and mathematics. The
program will give promising minority undergraduates the chance to work one-on-one
with Albany faculty in University laboratories this summer.
The University was awarded a $97,000 grant from the federal Department of
Education to finance the program for black, Hispanic and American Indian students.
Those three minority groups are seriously underrepresented in the fields of science
i and mathematics. In 1986, for example, minority Americans received fewer than two
| percent of the doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens in pure mathematics and in
i computer science; of the doctorates in biological sciences, minorities were awarded
fewer than 3.4 percent.
"Our principal goal is to instill in the participants an excitement about
research. We also want to enable the participants to become sophisticated applicants
{ to graduate school, and to develop and improve skills in analytical thinking,
writing, oral communication, and, in some cases, mathematics," says Dr. Daniel Wulff,
1 dean of the University’s College of Science and Mathematics and co-director of the
program. The other co-directors are Dr. Bailus Walker Jr., a distinguished professor
\ in the University’s School of Public Health, and Yolanda Nix, director of the
{ University’s Office of Minority Affairs,
| Twenty-six minority science and mathematics students, 10 from historically black
colleges and 16 from colleges throughout New York State, will be chosen for the
nine-week program on the basis of promise for success in graduate education. The
program will cover room and board, tuition and transportation costs for each student
and provide need-based stipends of up to $2,000.
Each student, under the one-on-one guidance of a faculty mentor, will do an
original research project; the research areas range from gene expression and acid
Minority Science Program Page 2
rain to computational logic and occupational diseases. Twenty-six Albany faculty
members have voluntcered to serve as mentors in the program and each has outlined
research opportunities in his or her area.
Besides carrying out an original research project, the students will be expected
to regularly communicate results both orally and in writing; they will be asked to
prepare a written report of their summer research project in the style of a
scientific journal article. Faculty mentors will work with the students to ensure
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proper format and good English usage and style.
Students will also be expected to attend two weekly seminar series, one on
research and one on practical concerns for prospective graduate students. Upon
i satisfactory completion of the program, students will receive three or four credits,
The University at Albany has taken numerous steps to boost minority enrollment in
i its own graduate and undergraduate programs, and the experience gained through those
| efforts will help ensure the success of the summer program, says Wulff.
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LYNX RESTORATION LAST TOPIC IN UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY LECTURE SERIES
Can the lynx be restored to the Adirondacks?
Rainer Brocke and Kent Gustafson of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry Adirondack Wildlife Program at Syracuse, will present an illustrated lecture
on their current efforts to restore the lynx to the Adirondack High Peaks Region. Their
lecture, the last of the Spring Natural History Lecture Series at the University at
Albany, will discuss the animal and the restoration project. The Canada lynx, close
relative of the bobcat, formerly occupied an area which included northern New York
State. So far 18 lynx have been released in the project.
The lecture, which is sponsored by the University at Albany and the State
Department of Environmental Conservation, will be on Tuesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in
Lecture Center 7 at the University. As in the past, a synopsis on the latest weather
will be given before the lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Donations to sustain the Natural History Lecture Series may be made to the
University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Such gifts are tax
deductible,
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Contact: Vincent Reda or Mary Fiess 442-3078
ALBANY FACULTY, STAFF, DESIGNATED FOR EXCELLENCE
Twelve University at Albany faculty and staff members have been cited for excellence
and distinguished service by this year’s State University of New York Chancellor’s Awards for
Excellence.
Named for Excellence in Librarianship were University Library Associate Librarians
Marjorie A. Benedict and Judith A. Hudson, Excellence in Professional Service Awards went to
John A. Martone, assistant vice president for the Office of Residential Life; Gregory I.
Stevens, assistant dean in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts; and Georgiana M. Cietek,
project manager for the University’s Student Information Records System.
Recipients of the Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Awards are Peter A. Bloniarz,
associate professor of Computer Sciences; Edna Acosta-Belen, associate professor of Latin
American and Caribbean Studies; Marvin D, Krohn, associate professor of Sociology; Phillip J.
Cooper, associate professor of Political Science; Raymond E, Benenson, professor of Physics;
and Shelton Bank, professor of chemistry.
Named by the SUNY Trustees as a Distinguished Service Professor was Richard H.
Hall, professor of Sociology.
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"Photovoltaics: An Emerging Opportunity"
A Conference Sponsored by the Atmospheric Science Research Center
International lecturer Dr. Paul McCready will be the keynote speaker for "Photovoltaics:
i An Emerging Opportunity," a conference designed to inform government and industry about
the possibilities of commercially developing photovoltaics in New York State. The
conference, partially sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the
t University at Albany, will be held on Monday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 10 at the Desmond
| Americana, Albany Shaker Road, Albany.
i Photovoltaics, a renewable energy resource created by converting sunlight to
| electricity, is a clean, economical and reliable alternative to oil. Developed in the
1950s, photovoltaics has been commercially marketed only within the past decade. The ASRC
implemented the use of PV panels to power the communications systems at the 1980 Winter
: Olympics in Lake Placid. And even more recently it operated atop the Avery Fisher Hall at
Lincoln Center in Manhatten in an experiment by the ASRC designed to monitor the
performance of several photovoltaic configurations in an urban environment. This project
was supported by the New York Power Authority.
Dr. MacCready, President of AeroVironment, Inc., worked with Dupont in developing
the Solar Challenger. This aircraft, powered solely by sunbeams, was piloted 163 miles
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from Paris to England in 1981 at an altitude of 11,000 feet. He has been honored with the
Engineer of the Century Gold Medal, the Lindbergh Award and the Collier Trophy. Other
speakers include Dr, Edgar A. DeMeo, of the Electric Power Research Institute; Dr. Bernard
Gillespie, President of Mobil Solar Energy Corporation; and Dr. Robert A. Stokes, Deputy
Director of SERI.
The conference will include a variety of speakers presenting topics including,
Photovoltaics: Today’s Realities, Tomorrow’s Expectations; Regional Impact: Photovoltaic
Application Penetration; and Policy Directions for 1990-2000: Market Development.
In conjunction with the ASRC, the conference is sponsored by The New York State
Energy Office, Mobil Solar Energy Corporation, The New York State Power Authority and the
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
Registration fee for the two-day conference is $50. For an application and
additional information contact Ronald Stewart or Richard Perez at (518) 442-3800, The
Atmospheric Research Center, 100 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12205.
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PROFESSOR LEONARD SLADE WILL RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATE
Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr., Chair of the Department of African
and Afro-American Studies at SUNY-Albany, will be awarded an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Kentucky State University's
Commencement on May 14th.
Slade earned the Ph.D. degree in English at the University of
Illinois. He has also studied at Bennington College in Vermont, at
American University, Washington, D.C., and at the University of Ghana
@ in West Africa. Dr. Slade was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year
at Kentucky State University. The Past National President of Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society, which has a membership of 43,000, Dr. Slade
has been a speaker at a number of colleges and universities,
including Ohio State University, the University of Kentucky, Eastern
Kentucky University, the University of Tennessee, the University of
Arkansas, Texas Southern University, Williams College, among others.
The recipient of several University Fellowships and Grants, he has
more than 90 publications to his credit. Fifty of his poems have
appeared in various journals during the past three years, including
The Communicator, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, The Griot: The
Journal o o-American Studies, The Kentucky Poetry Review,
Prophetic Voices: An International Litera Journal, Testimony:
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Journal of African-American Studies, River City Review, The Black
Scholar, The Courier-Journal, to name a few. His essay on "America"
appeared in the December, 1986, issue of U.S. News and World Report.
His book of poetry, Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer, was
published by Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc., in Spring 1988. Of this
book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Poet, has written: "Another
Black Voice: A Different Drummer, is a brave expression of
excitements deeply felt, and good sense meticulously rendered. Slade
is a committed poet from whom many important works may be expected."
His second book of poetry, The Beauty of Blackness, will be published
in 1989.
Dr. Slade is the author of two other books, Critical Essays
on Language and Literature and A Selected Working Bibliography of
Twenty-Four American Authors. One of his speeches, "Quality
Education: A Unified Thrust," appears in a college textbook,
Speech As An Art. One of his poems, "Elegy for Therman B.
O'Daniel," has been set to music by Grace Yin, a Ph.D. in Music
Composition from the University of California at Los Angeles and a
Professor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore.
Dr. Slade was president of the Student. G ernment Association
in college and appeared on the Voice of America Program. He has
twice received the National Association for Equal Opportunity in
Higher Education Award from Washington, D.C. He was Professor of
About Slade's Poetry
",.,another informed and articulate voice."
Wade Hall
The Courier-Journal
",..a rhythmical and powerful voice we will long remember."
Thelma Scott Kiser
The Independent
",..the best of his poems are authentic and joyous celebrations of
the human spirit."
Ruthe Sheffey, Editor
The Zora Neale Hurston Forum
",..a talented, musing poet whose work, at its best, is evocative
without ambiguity, surprising and compelling in its imagery, and
satisfying and provoking in its exploration of human experience."
Jerry Trammell
The Griot: The Journal of Afro-American Studies
"...a brave expression of excitements deeply felt and good sense
meticulously rendered."
Gwendolyn Brooks
Pulitzer Prize Poet
"When the rest of us became bitter, angry, vindictive, and hostile,
Slade always had that something within which elevated him above the
mire and muck. That something comes through in the quality of his
poetry."
Warren C. Swindell, Professor
Indiana State University
"Slade's poetry can pierce the heart or kis
Kate Stephens
Lexington, Kentucky
