April 26 Disability Awareness Training for Residential
Life Staff
12:00-2:00 p.m. CCD Resource Center, LC B-27
The Center for Computing and Disability (CCD), Disabled Student Services (DSS)
and the Learning Disabilities Resource Center will provide disability awareness training for
Residential Life staff regarding "disability" adaptive environments, and learning/teaching
strategies. This two hour session will articulate student, faculty and administrator needs,
expectations. services and applicable laws. Attendees will have an opportunity to "test drive"
the adaptive products and equipment that are available in CCD's Resource Center as well as
in student computer facilities. Bring a brown bag lunch if you wish. Enrollment is limited.
Please pre-registerby calling 442-3874
April 29
University Women's Luncheon
12:00-1:30 p.m. Humanities 354
Coordinated by: Sally Knapp, MLS, University Library
Panelists include: Laurie Maier, Marge Snyder, Irene Saulsbery
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This brown-bag lunch will feature a presentation by three mothers who have children
with disabilities. The speakers will present their perspectives on children with disabilities
from a parent's point of view covering topics that include learning disabilities, neurological
impairments, as well as children with multiple disabilities.
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Robin Charlebois, Co-Chair Constance Laymon
Brett Robinson, Co-Chair Liz Medvetz
Cindy Avery Nancy Belowich-Negron
Donna Bailey Richard Read .
Beverly Ellis Barry Robinson April 1 9 9 3
Yvonne Hawkins Eileen Scanlan
Jean Hendrickson Thomas Wakely
Sally Knapp
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Affirmative Action Student Association
Center for Computing and Disability
Department of Physical Education,
Athletics and Recreation
Department of Residential Life
Division for Student Affairs
Disabled Student Services
Disabilities Resource Center
University Action for the Disabled
University at Albany, College of
Saint Rose, Hudson Valley
Community College, RPI, SCCC
University Auxiliary Services
University Graphics
University Libraries
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Apriila 11thAnnuai Disabled Student Services
Awards Luncheon
12:00-2:00 p.m. Campus Center Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frank Bowe, Nationally Renowned Advocate and
Architect of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This luncheon recognizes the accomplishments of individuals who have made
outstanding contributions to persons with disabilities. Itis by invitation only.
April 15 Perspectives on Life Changes 295
6:00-8:00 p.m. Campus CenterAssembty Hall
Coordinated by: Constance Laymon
Moderator: Ann Burton, Director, Think First of New York, Inc.,
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Center
This program is focused around at-risk behavior for adolescents. A panel will
discuss their perspectives on life before and after a disabling condition occurred.
“In Harms Way", an 18 minute film which features young people who have had head
and spinal cord injuries discussing the consequences of high risk activities, will be shown
April 16 Tour of Recreation and Convocation Center
Fitness/Lifting Program
6:00-8:00 p.m. Fitness Center in RACC
Judy Finerghty, Head Women's LaCrosse Coach & Fitness Center Coordinator
Yvonne Hawkins, Assistant Women's Basketball Coach & Lecturer
As you tour the University’s Recreation and Convocation Center (RACC) you will see
exactly what the RACC has to offer all students athletically and recreationally. One of the
highlights of this tour will be the Fitness/Nautilus equipment where you will learn which
machines will work major muscle groups. Another highlight is the Versa Trainer. This
machine is set up for use by persons in wheelchairs and will enable them to get a total upper
body workout.
April 17 Social and Academic Networking Conference
for Capital District Students with Disabilities
9:00.a.m.-4:00 p.m. Campus Center
Patroon Restaurant
Back by popular demand, this conference will provide a forum for Capital District
students with disabilities to meet and discuss social, academic, vocational and rehabilitation
issues. This conference is an opportunity to provide input by students about the Vocational
Rehabilitation process. The event will also offer students an opportunity to meet with
students from other Capital District colleges, universities and high schools.
April19 Jeff Blatnick, Giympic Gold Medalist
Campus Center Assembly Hall
7:30 p.m.
Jeff Blainick, Olympic champion, dealt with his physical challenges to go on to wina
gold medal in the 3ssititsw@r Olympics. All are welcome.
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April21 Disabilities and Adaptive Environments:
Faculty and Administration Updates
12:00-2:00 p.m. CCD Resource Center, LC B-27
The Center for Computing and Disability (CCD), Disabled Student Services (DSS)
and the Learning Disabilities Resource Center will provide update sessions for faculty and
administrators regarding "disability", adaptive environments, and learning/teaching
gies. This two hour session will articulate student, faculty and administrator neeus,
expectations, services and applicable laws. Attendees will have an opportunity to "test drive”
the adaptive products and equipment that are available in CCD's Resource Center as well as
in student computer facilities. Bring a brown bag lunch if you wish. Enrollment is limited.
Please pre-registerby calling 442-3874.
April23 Reception for Honors Students with Disabilities
2:00-4:00 p.m. Campus Center Assembly Hall
Sponsored by Disabled Student Services, Learning Disabilities Resource Center,
Affirmative Action and University Auxiliary Services (UAS), this reception will recognize
and honorall University students with disabilities that have achieved academic excellence.
April 24 Disabled High School Student Achievers
Reception and Luncheon, 11:00a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Campus Center Patroon Lounge & Restaurant
Coordinatedby: Dolores Cimini, PhD, Director. Middle Earth Drug Education
and Crisis Intervention Program, University Counseling Center
Patrick Romain, Senior Academic Advisor. Educational
Opportunities Program, Academic Support Services
Funded by a grant from UAS and the Office for Affirmative Action, this event will
honor Capital District high school students with disabilities who have achieved recognition
within scholastic, service and leadership areas. Participants will receive awards and will be
exposed toa variety of role models with disabilities. High school student participants will
also be provided with information concerning admission to college level study and related
services. Representatives will be available from New York State Rehabilitation Agencies.
Nominations for these awards are welcome from parents, teachers, principals,
guidance counselors, school psychologists, rehabilitation professionals, and other individu-
als. For further information, please contact Dr. Dolores Cimini at 442-5800 or Patrick
Romain at 442-5794.
| Abilities Awareness Month is designed to increase the awareness of the
| campus community to persons with disabilities. It is a collaborative effort among
| students, staffand faculty to enhance our Just Community atthe University at
| Albany. If you need an interpreter for any of the programs, please call 442-5490.
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Central Alaska is Topic of University at Albany’s Next
Natural History Lecture Series
A discussion on "Central Alaska -- What to See and How to Get There" will be the topic
of the University at Albany’s next Natural History Lecture Series. The event will be held
on Tuesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 on the University’s uptown campus.
It is free and open to the public.
Peter and Natalie Buttner will discuss their spring 1992 journey to Alaska, in
which they spent a month on a trip combining research with photography. Their
presentation will be highlighted with an aerial tour of Mount McKinley guided by bush
pilot Lowell Thomas, Jr. The Kenai Peninsula, Valdez, Prince William Sound and the
Columbia Glacier will also be featured.
The Natural History Lecture Series, now in its 23rd year, is sponsored by the
University’s Atmospheric Sciences and Research Center and the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation. It is organized by well-known area
meteorologist Ray Falconer. This is the fourth of five lectures in the series. An illustrated
weather briefing using slides, movies and/or tapes will precede each lecture.
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Foreign, Local Scholoars Discuss the Lessons of Yugoslavia
The University at Albany’s Program in Russian and East European Studies will present a
round-table discussion on Wednesday, April 14, on "Ethnicity & Nationalism: The Lessons of
Yugoslavia." Moderating the event, at 3:30 p.m. in Humanities 354, will be Martin Edelman,
chair of the Department of Political Science.
Panelists will be Vladimir Ageyev of the Department of Social Psychology at Moscow
State University, Liliana Simeonova of the Institute for Balkin Studies at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (in Sofia), and, from the University at Albany, Alvin Magid of the
Department of Political Science, and Joseph Zacek of the Department of History.
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Schuylerville Student Wins Science Symposium at University at Albany
ALBANY - Leocadia Paliulis, a senior at Schuylerville Junior-Senior High School, has won the
regional National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, held at the University at Albany April 1
and 2. This is the first time a student from the Capital Region has won in the eight years the University
has hosted the competition.
Lee, as Ms. Paliulis is known, was selected as the winner among seven aspiring scientists - still in high
school - who presented papers describing their original research during the two-day session. The
symposium was attended by 115 high school students and their teachers.
The title of Paliulis’s paper was Experimental Analysis of Secretion in the Green Alga Closterium. She
now moves on to compete in the nationals May 6-9 in Fort Monroe, Va.
"The organism I worked with is really neat - like pond scum - and it moves," said Paliulis (pronounced
Pa-LOO-lis), who lives with her parents, Vytautas and Maria Paliulis, and three younger siblings on a
farm in Gansevoort.
For her project, Lee Paliulis studied the basic mechanism that makes the algae move. She presented
her findings at the symposium on how and why the organism moves.
Paliulis’s mentor at Schuylerville is teacher Rosemary Cenci.
Once Paliulis came yp with the idea for her research, she needed some assistance and a laboratory in
which to work. Paliulis called the chairman of the biology department at Skidmore College and was
put in touch with David Domozych, a plant cell biologist. Domozych, an associate professor of
biology at Skidmore, said Paliulis has worked in his lab for the past year and a half.
"She is one of the hardest-working and devoted young people with whom I have ever been
associated," said Domozych. "She’s just a top-notch kid."
Daniel Wulff, dean of the University at Albany’s College of Science and Mathematics, organized the
symposium.
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April 7, 1993
University at Albany Honors E.O.P. Scholars Friday, April 16
ALBANY - The Educational Opportunities Program (E.0.P.) Honors Convocation will be at 5 p.m.
Friday, April 16, in the Patroon Room of the Campus Center.
The convocation is being held to honor the achievements of 100 students in the E.O.P. program who
made the dean’s list in the spring or fall of 1992 by maintaining at least a 3.25 average.
Carson Carr Jr. said E.O.P. opens the door to higher education for students from low-income families
who normally would not be accepted to college because of inadequate academic preparation. Once at
Albany, the students receive personal tutoring and other support services to help them realize their
potential.
“We want to reward these high academic achievers. The event is a formal dinner. A number of faculty
members, administrators and graduate school staff people are attending as well. What we are trying to
do is encourage these high achievers to look beyond undergraduate school and seriously consider
graduate enrollment," said Carr, associate dean for academic affairs and E.O.P. director.
Also honored that evening will be 30 E.O.P..students who are graduating in May with an overall
average of 3.0 or better.
The dinner is being sponsored by the University at Albany’s Office of Academic Support Services, by
the State University of New York Central Administration, and by University Auxiliary Service.
Dr. Carr may be contacted at (518) 442-5180. 93-44
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Nobel Prize Winner to Discuss "The Laws of Chaos”
Ilya Prigogine, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1977, will discuss "The Laws of
Chaos" on Friday, April 30, at 2 p.m. in Biology 248 (the biology conference room) on the
main campus of the University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave. His talk is free and open to
the public.
Prigogine, who divides his time between Brussels, Belgium and the University of
Texas at Austin, has been called the "poet of thermodynamics" because of his conceptual
daring and elegant mathematical reasoning. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize, a
spokesman for the committee cited him for having "revitalized science" with theories making
possible "the study of the most varied problems," such as city traffic congestion, the stability of
insect communities, the development of ordered biological structures, and the multiplication of
cancer cells.
His theories center on the idea that under certain conditions the second law of
thermodynamics, as traditionally viewed, can seem to be broken.
"The second law traditionally predicts the relentless increase of disorder and
incoherence -- entropy -- within a given system, whether that system be a steam engine or a
universe," said the February 1987 issue of Current Biography. Prigogine’s reinterpretation was
revolutionary because the "second law was long thought to doom the universe to a long slide
into equilibrium or ‘heat death,’ in which all useful energy would be lost in random motion.
He proposed that in conditions that are sufficiently far from equilibrium, fluctuations of order
in a random system could suddenly stabilize. The resulting ‘dissipative structures’ -- the most
dramatic of which is life itself -- would last indefinitely, taking energy out of their chaotic
environments and ‘dissipating’ energy back into it," said the Current Biography article.
Prigogine’s international bestseller, Order Out of Chaos, which he wrote with the
chemist, philosopher and scientific historian Isabelle Stengers, expounds his theories for lay
readers. The director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics at the
University of Texas at Austin, Prigogine is the author of 14 books and the recipient of
numerous prizes.
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Lecture on Birds to Close University at Albany’s
Natural History Lecture Series
A discussion on "Birds of New York" will be the last program in the spring 1993 season
of the University at Albany’s Natural History Lecture Series. The event will be held on
Tuesday, April 20 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 on the University’s uptown campus. It is
free and open to the public.
Chris Keefer, the author of the Sunday Gazette column "Birding Trips and
Trivia," will narrate this presentation on the work of photographer Dave Keefer. In this
program, the Keefers will highlight New York native birds from waterfowl to warblers,
and from owls to bluebirds.
The Natural History Lecture Series is sponsored by the University’s Atmospheric
Sciences Research Center and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation. It is orgaiized by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. An
illustrated weather briefing using slides, movies and/or tapes, will precede the lecture.
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Books on Women and Gender by Local Authors Featured
ALBANY - "A Celebration of Capital District Authors on Women and Gender" will be held on
Friday, April 23, from 6 to 9 p.m, at the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza on Western Avenue.
Authors from the University at Albany and their colleagues from schools throughout the Capital
District, including Union, Siena, Russell Sage and Skidmore colleges, and the College of Saint Rose,
as well as unaffiliated authors, will have their works available for sale and display.
Co-sponsors of the event are the University at Albany’s Institute for Research on Women, the
Women’s Studies department, and the Book House.
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Note to Reporters: Many of the authors listed in the accompanying brochure will be attending the
April 23 event. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular author will be there, call Susan
Novotny at the Book House, 489-4761.
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University at Albany Students Organize Asian/Pacific American
Student Conference April 16-18
Oscar-nominated film director Christine Choy will be one of the featured speakers April 16-18 at
the first annual Asian/Pacific American Student Conference at the University at Albany. Choy,
who is now a member of the faculty of New York University, will discuss "Who Killed Vincent
Chin" on Saturday, April 17, at 1:30 p.m. in Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the
University’s main campus.
The conference, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the Asian-American
Alliance, an umbrella organization representing Korean, Chinese, South Asian and Japanese
student groups at the University. High school students and students from other area campuses
are especially welcome. The registration fee is $8 for students and $10 for non-students. After
April 12, the registration is $20. For more information, call 455-6842.
According to Carol Frances Cheng, a junior from Queens and a conference organizer, the
purpose of the conference is to focus attention on issues of concern to Asian and Pacific
American students. The event’s theme is "Pan Asian/Pacific American Identity, Empowerment
and Solidarity."
“As a smaller voice on a multicultural campus, our goal is to strengthen our identity and
network among ourselves, as well as students on other SUNY campuses and at colleges and
universities throughout the Northeast," Cheng said. She said the Asian American student
population at the University is 854 out of a total enrollment of about 17,000 students.
Other speakers at the conference will include Connie Chin, Gov. Mario Cuomo’s
assistant for Asian American Affairs; Charles Pei Wang, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, and Sung Bok Kim, dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University.
A conference schedule is-attachee ayailable .
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University at Albany Selects Innovative Administrator
To Head Its New College of Arts and Sciences
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 12, 1993) -- University at Albany President H. Patrick
Swygert today aniiounced the appointment of Dr. Judith A. Gillespie as Dean of the
University’s new College of Arts and Sciences, culminating a national search that yielded
more than 100 candidates for the key post. She is expected to assume her responsibilities at
Albany June 1.
Dr. Gillespie was the founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of
Minnesota-Duluth campus and currently serves as Vice President of Instruction at Ohlone
College, a comprehensive community college in Fremont, California. Ohlone is part of the
California public higher education system and has an enrollment of over 10,000 students and
250 faculty members.
Gillespie recently received the California Chancellor’s Award for Progress in Cultural
Diversity for her accomplishments in hiring and retaining culturally diverse faculty and staff
at Ohlone College. President Swygert said, "Dr. Gillespie is a gifted administrator who has
demonstrated a special commitment to faculty growth and research, student achievement and
cultural diversity. She will provide the enthusiasm, experience and leadership necessary to
initiate the new College of Arts and Sciences."
As founding Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Dr. Gillespie
held a post with similar responsibilities to those she assumes at the University at Albany’s
new College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Karen Hitchcock, University at Albany Vice
President for Academic Affairs, said, "Judith Gillespie’s record of innovation and leadership
in higher education will be of great value to the University at Albany as it brings together
into one College, the College of Arts and Sciences, all the programs and departments
currently within the Colleges of Humanities and Fine Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences,
and Science and Mathematics.
“This new organization of the arts and sciences disciplines will facilitate the important
dialogues that comprise a liberal education," Hitchcock said, noting that this major change at
the University at Albany, which will take effect this Fall, will be implemented in
consultation with a faculty Transition Advisory Committee chaired by Professor Eugene
Garber, Distinguished Professor of English.
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A native of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Dr. Gillespie holds a Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Minnesota, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a National Science
Foundation Fellow. Gillespie’s recent research has focused on how educational institutions
impact on regional economic development. She eamed a B.A. in political science from
Northwestern University and is the author of many books and articles on American
government, political inquiry and the politics of regional development.
Dr. Gillespie has consulted for more than 20 years with the National Science
Foundation, including principal investigator roles in major curriculum and research projects.
She has also worked with the American Chemical Society on its national "chemistry in the
community" curriculum project.
The University at Albany currently enrolls approximately 17,000 undergraduate and
graduate students in its schools and colleges. Established in 1844, it is the oldest
state-chartered institution of public higher education in New York State, and will celebrate
its Sesquicentennial in 1994.
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The ground-breaking ceremony for the new $8.15 million Campus Center Extension at
the University at Albany is scheduled for Wednesday, April 14, at 2 p.m., just to the southern
side of the present Campus Center.
Photo/film opportunities and interviews with President H. Patrick Swygert, members
of the University Council, and representatives from MLB Industries, Inc., of Latham, the
project builders, will be available.
The 30,000 square foot project, branching out in two large wings from the current
Center, will include a new bookstore, food court, bank, barber shop, bakery, ice cream shop,
convenient store, pizzeria, copy center and video arcade.
Enclosed is copy of campus newsletter piece on the new extension.
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Further information on the ground-breaking ceremony
for the new $8.15 million
Campus Center Extension at the University at Albany
Wednesday, April 14, 2 p.m.
On hand from the architectural firm of Edward Durrell Stone Associates, designers of
the Extension project and whose late founder designed the current uptown campus, will be:
1) Peter Capone, principal with the firm of Edward Durrell Stone Associates
2) Richard Lebanowski, lead architect, Edward Durrell Stone Associates
3) William Krause, project manager.
On hand from the building firm of MLB Industries of Latham, constructors of the new
Extension, will be:
1) James L. Dawsey, vice president of operations, MLB
2) Kenneth B. Rizzo, project manager
Also present will be members of the State University of New York Construction Fund,
headed by Irving Freedman, SUNY Vice Chancellor for Facilities.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENT WINS PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP
Both good and ominous omens faced senior Rebeca Helfer when she attended her Boston
interviews earlier this year for the 1993 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
competition. :
"The entire weekend was strange and funny and crazy, and I really had no idea what to
expect," said Helfer, a senior majoring in English and women’s studies. "My train to Boston
broke down and I was delayed for hours. I missed my Mellon Fellowship interview at Harvard,
but there was a note on the door telling me to go to the interviewer’s hotel.
"I walked four blocks in miserably weather, called the interviewer at the hotel, and while
I’m talking to him, an alarm goes off and people start running out of the hotel. Pretty soon,
firemen are rushing in and I’m outside in the cold again. I was thinking it was fitting that my
favorite author is Vladimir Nabokov.
"The interviewer, a professor from Cornell, got me a room at the hotel after the
commotion. When I finally met with him, I found out he was a former colleague of Nabokov’s
at Cornell."
Recently, Helfer found out she had been selected one of 85 students nationwide from a
pool of 1,100 to receive the fellowship, which covers tuition and fees for one year of study at a
U.S. or Canadian graduate school, plus a stipend of $12,500. Helfer is the University’s first
student so honored.
The Mellon Fellowships encourage and assist college seniors and recent graduates of
outstanding promise to join the humanities faculties of America’s colleges and universities.
"Receiving the award was exciting and unexpected," said Helfer, a native of East
Williston, New York, who plans to go on for her Ph.D. in 20th Century literature.
A member of the English Honors Program at Albany, she has been nominated for the
University’s Presidential Award for her dissertation, "The Task of the Poet: Translation
Theory and Nobokov’s Ada or Ardor, A Family Chronicle."
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Nobel Laureate to Lecture at University at Albany
Walter Gilbert, Carl M. Loeb University professor and chair of the Department of
Cellular and Developmental Biology at Harvard University, and 1980 Nobel Prize winner in
chemistry, will deliver the University at Albany’s annual Krackeler Scientific Lecture on
Thursday, April 15, at 4:10 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center.
Gilbert’s talk will be on "Zebrafish as a Model System of Vertebrate Development."
Gilbert became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1987 and has won numerous
national and international awards and recognition for his research in biological chemistry.
The lecture is sponsored by the University’s Department of Biological Sciences and
Krackeler Scientific, Inc. For information on the lecture, call David Shub at 442-4324,
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Carlucci to Moderate Panel
Carl Carlucci, former secretary of the Ways and Means Committee of the New York
State Assembly and now Vice President for Finance and Business Administration at the
University at Albany, will moderate a panel discussion at the 31st Annual Institute of the
Empire State Capital Area Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration
(ASPA). The event will be held on Friday, April 23, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Empire
State Plaza Concourse Meeting Rooms.
The theme of this year’s conference is "Coping in the ’90s: Constant and.
Never-Ending Improvement." All five panels planned for the day will address that topic
(see enclosed program). The keynote speaker for the event will be Patrick J. Bulgaro,
New York State Director of the Budget. ;
Carlucci will moderate a discussion on "New York State Leadership in Science
and Technology." The members on this panel will include Peter Bloniarz, Director of the
Center of Governmental Technology Solutions at the University and John Wallner,
publisher of Technology New York Report.
The fee for all panel presentations is $25. Lunch is available at nearby cafeterias
at additional cost. For reservations, mail a check payable to ASPA/Empire State Capital
Area Chapter to Mary Dugan-White, NYS Division of the Budget, Room 106, the
Capitol, Albany, NY, 12224.
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Moderator: Patricia B, Adducci, Commissioner, DMV
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Blin Howe, Commissioner, OMRDD
Robert B. Adams, Commissioner, OGS
Representative from NYS Employees’ Unions
Health Care Financing Reform
Moderator: Abraham M. Lackman, Director, Office of Fiscal Studies,
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Michacl J. Dowling, Director of Health, Education & Human Services,
Executive Chamber
Alfred Carillo, Executive Director, Senate Health Committee
Representative for Health, Insurance Industry Trade group
man Infrastr re: Investment in Education
Moderator: William Shapiro, Director of Policy Analysis & Development,
Department of Social Services
Panelists:
Gladys Pack, Assistant Superintendent, Department of Restructuring
Yonkers Public Schools
Mario Musolino, Deputy Director, Job Training Partnership Council
Joseph C, Burke, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, SUNY
Paul Colc, Secretary/Treasurer, NYS AFI.-CIO
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Development Along the Erje Canal: Tension Between Jobs and Preservation
Moderator: Henry L, Peyrebrune, Assistant Commissioner,
Public Transportation, DOT
Panelists:
Susan Kupferman, Director, Canal Recreationway Commission,
NYS Thruway Authority
Luke Rich, Commitice Director, Senate Committce on Tourism, Recreation
and Sports Development
Terrence Hammill, Mayor, Cily, of Oswego
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Glenn Doell, Director of the Incubator Program at RPI
John Wallner, Publisher of "Technology New York Report"
Mark Tebbano, Manager, The Industrial ‘Technology Program,
Science Technology Foundation
Peter Bloniarz, Director, Center of Governmental Technology Solutions
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$8.15 Million Campus Center Extension Begun
Ground was officially broken today for the University at Albany’s new $8.15 million
Campus Center Extension, a 30,000 square foot addition that will house a variety of student
services and a new bookstore. The extension is scheduled for completion in Fall, 1994.
"This is a major step toward providing the facilities and services that befit the mature
research university that the University at Albany has become," said Albany President H. Patrick
Swygert. "The University community, visitors, and especially the students will benefit
enormously from the variety of offerings, added convenience, and sheer beauty of this facility."
The Extension will be comprised of two wings. The east wing will consist entirely of the
new bookstore. The west wing, which will be operated by University Auxiliary Services, will
house a new open food court, a bank, a barber shop, a bakery, an ice cream shop, a convenient
store, a pizzeria, a copy center and a video arcade.
According to Carl Carlucci, Vice President for Business and Finance, the extension will
also provide the connecting linkage at both the podium level and in the hallways of its wings to
what will be the new library. And new "window walls" will form enclosed walkways from the
basement levels of the Physics and Education buildings into the Campus Center. Currently,
passage between those buildings can only be achieved by walking outside.
At the ceremony were three members of the architectural firm of Edward Durrell Stone
Associates, architects for the Extension: Peter Capone, principal executive, Richard Lebanowski,
lead architect, and William Krause, project manager. The firm’s founder, the late Edward Durrell
Stone, was the designer of the current uptown campus, which was constructed in the mid 1960s.
Also present were Margaret St. Vil and Michael Williams, student members of the
Extension Building Advisory Committee; faculty and staff members of the committee; Diego
Munoz, president of the Student Association; James L. Dawsey, vice president of operations,
MLB Industries of Latham, builders of the new Extension, Kenneth B. Rizzo, MLB’s project
manager, and from the State University of New York Construction Fund, Irving Freedman,
SUNY Vice Chancellor for Facilities, and fellow Fund board member George Freeman.
Carlucci said the new building will lend some breathing room to a campus that has
enjoyed and withstood decades of growth. The present Campus Center was originally intended to
accommodate the student activities of a population of 10,000. The University’s current student
population is now approximately 17,000.
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University at Albany Student Wins Prestigious
Goldwater Scholarship
Carol Anne Koleci, a student at the University at Albany, has been selected as one of the
nation’s top science and mathematics undergraduates by the Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. She is one of 233 students
nationwide chosen for the honor. The award, given to college sophomores and juniors, is
intended to promote and inspire excellence in science and mathematics.
Koleci, a junior physics major, is a resident of Albany. She is a member of the
University’s chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Presidential
Honors Society as well as a Phi Beta Kappa and principal clarinetist in the University’s
Orchestra. Koleci is currently working with Akira Inomata, a professor in the Physics
Department, assisting him with his project in theoretical physics. She is the daughter of
Thomas V. and Stella Koleci of Albany.
Koleci is the fifth student from the University to receive this scholarship. The
other recipients were Jonathan Garhart in 1989, Jean Kelsey and Gerald Mueller Jr. in
1991 and Randall Burton last year. Winners are selected from a field of students from
approximately 600 colleges and universities nationwide.
The Goldwater Scholarships cover the cost of tuition, books, and room and board
up to $7,000. Students who receive the award in their junior year eligible for two years of
support. The awards honor former Sen. Goldwater, who served the country for 30 years
in the U.S. Senate. They are given to students who plan to pursue a career in math,
natural sciences and engineering. All the winners intend to continue their studies with the
objective of earning a Ph.D.
The Goldwater Foundation, now in its fifth year of operation, has, to date,
awarded 1,009 scholarships worth nearly $12 million and the trustees plan to award up to
250 scholars for next year. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate
award of its kind.
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University at Albany Names
Dr. Milt Richards as Athletic Director
ALBANY, N.Y., April 20, 1993 -- The University at Albany today announced the
appointment of Dr. Milton E. (Milt) Richards, 34, as its new Director of the Department of
Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation (DPEAR), effective July 1.
Richards had previously served as Director of Athletics at Division I Big Eight
Conference member Kansas State University, and in several capacities -- including Associate
Director of Athletics -- at Division I Atlantic 10 Conference member Temple University. He
will succeed Dr. William Moore, who is retiring on June 30 after 10 years at Albany.
Richards’ tenure at Kansas State (1991-93) was marked by a strong commitment to
quality teaching, and to athletic opportunities for all students. In addition, the Wildcats’
football team had its best record since 1954, the men’s basketball team went to the NCAA
tournament. Under his leadership, the athletic department’s Fiscal 1992 budget of nearly $9
million showed a positive balance, for the first time in seven years.
In announcing Dr. Richards’ appointment, Dr. Mitchel D. Livingston, University at
Albany Vice President for Student Affairs, said, "We are fortunate to attract Dr. Milt
Richards to Albany to lead our athletic program. He gives us the perfect mix of education,
experience and energy."
Distinguished Professor of Business Dr. William K. Holstein, who chaired the
committee that reviewed more than 160 applicants and nominees for the position, said in a
prepared statement, "Dr. Richards is a professional in every positive sense of the term. He
as demonstrated a strong commitment to students, quality teaching, and the academic side
of athletics, excellent outreach and fundraising skills, and abundant energy."
Richards said, "I welcome the opportunity to advance the University at Albany’s
athletic profile and build on the strong base that Dr. Moore and our faculty and coaching
staff have built. The Recreation and Convocation Center, in particular, is a first-class facility,
and we intend to maximize its potential."
Richards was born in Kansas, grew up in the Syracuse area, and holds B.S., M.S., and
Ed.D. degrees from West Virginia University. He and his wife, Rita, have a son, Milton
Chase, and a daughter, Megan.
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Yale Historian to Give Albany’s 149th Commencement Address
ALBANY - Jaroslav Pelikan, a leading Yale scholar of intellectual history, will be the keynote speaker
at the University at Albany’s 149th Commencement Sunday, May 16, at 10 a.m. in the Knickerbocker
Arena, South Pearl Street. Pelikan will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Approximately 2,833 bachelor’s, 1,459 master’s, and 163 doctoral degrees will be granted, for a total
of 4,455 degree recipients, according to the registrar’s and graduate studies’ offices. This figure
includes summer and fall 1992 graduates.
The title of Pelikan’s speech is "The Trajectory of Learning." He has been a Sterling Professor of
History at Yale since 1972.
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress and a scholar on Russia, will also receive a Doctor of
Humane Letters degree. During the ceremonies, the recipients of the 1993 Collins Fellows will also be
announced,
Pelikan recently returned from Scotland’s University of Aberdeen, where he had given the prestigious
Gifford Lectureship. A leading authority on the evolution of Christianity, and the author of a series of
award-winning volumes on the history of religion, Pelikan was once called "the scholar’s scholar," by
Newsweek magazine.
"Jaroslav Pelikan is certainly one of the most respected historians of religion in the world," noted
University at Albany President H. Patrick Swygert. "No scholar has made as many contributions to the
study of tradition and its relation to modernity, especially as this relates to higher education as Jaroslav
Pelikan.”
Since his appointment to the Yale faculty in 1962, Pelikan has published at least one book a year,
including the five-volume The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.
Pelikan’s latest book is The Idea of the University: A Reconsideration, which was published last year.
Professor Pelikan earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and has been the
recipient of more than 25 honorary degrees. As chairman of the publications committee of the Yale
University Press since 1979 ine has been responsible for the large number of prize-winning scholarly
books published by the press. Pelikan is also a member of the Council of the Smithsonian Institution,
as well as United States chi.irman for the U.S.-Czechoslovak Commission on the Humanities and the
Social Sciences.
"The University at Albany nominates Jaroslav Pelikan for the degree Doctor of Humane Letters as a
reflection of this University’s excellence in history and humanistic studies, and burgeoning programs
in cultural and religious studies," noted President Swygert. "Professor Pelikan’s scholarship and
dedication to faculty development warrant recognition by this University whose faculty includes
several of Professor Pelikan’s students."
Billington, who speaks and reads at least eight foreign languages, including Czech, Croatian and
Polish, was first known as a historian and authority on Russian culture. He was sworn in as the 13th
Librarian of Congress in 1987.
His academic career has included affiliations at Harvard (1957-1961), Princeton (1961-1973), and the
directorship of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1973-1987. He has also
served as visiting professor at several European and Asian institutions, including the Academy of
Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow (1966-1967), the University of Helsinki (1960-1961), and l’Ecole
des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1985, 1988).
Billington earned a doctorate from Oxford in 1953 while he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College.
A Phi Beta Kappa, he has been a longtime member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs
and a former member of the editorial advisory board of Theology Today.
Billington accompanied the official leadership delegations of the U.S. House of Representatives to the
Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. in April 1979 and July 1983 and of the U.S. Senate to the Supreme
Soviet in August 1983. In the spring of 1988, he accompanied the Senate Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources to the Soviet Union and in June 1988, he accompanied former President Ronald
Reagan and Mrs. Reagan to the Soviet Summit in Moscow.
"The University at Albany is proud to nominate Dr. Billington for the degree Doctor of Humane
Letters as a reflection of our status and disciplinary excellence in Slavic Studies and our longstanding
excellence in Library Science and the more recent emphasis in Information Science. The awarding ofa
degree to a person of such distinguished achievements in both fields, but especially the nation’s
leading Librarian, is particularly appropriate as the University at Albany is now home to a new Ph.D.
in Information Science," said President Swygert.
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University at Albany Develops Summer Bridge Program
In response to the critical shortage of African American, Latino and Native Americans in
science related fields, the University at Albany has created a Summer Bridge Program. It
is designed to increase both the number and academic performance of these students
graduating with a major in the sciences. The program, a cooperative effort between the
College of Science and Math and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is made possible by
a grant from the Howard Hughes Foundation.
The Summer Bridge Program has two components. The first, the Pre-Freshman
Summer Transition Program, is for entering freshmen. They will have the opportunity to
spend six weeks in the summer becoming familiar with University faculty, staff and
facilities. They will attend workshops in note-taking, study skills and time management
as well as earning up to six credits to help reduce their fall course loads.
The second component is the Freshman to Sophomore Bridge Program. It is for
the students who have successfully completed their first year to provide them with a head
start on their sophomore year programs. Special seminars and workshops will be offered
to introduce the key snepts and principles that students will encounter in genetics and
organic chemistry. They can also take up to six elective credits.
"This is not a remedial program," said Daniel Wulff, dean of the College of
Science and Mathematics. "It provides an opportunity for good students to become
excellent students."
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According to Carl Martin, Associate Vice President for Student Services and one _
of the coordinators of the program, 20 students are admitted each summer. "This program
will bring together African American, Latino and Native American science majors to
help them form a strong supportive community and reduce the ethnic isolation they might
otherwise experience," he said.
The University was awarded a $1.2 million grant by the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute last year to strengthen undergraduate education in the sciences and encourage
more minorities and women to pursue scientific careers. There are already a number of
programs in place designed to attract, maintain and nurture science students, and this
grant will enable the campus to build on those steps as well as create new ones.
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Evan Collins Memorial Service Set for April 29
ALBANY - Former University President (1949-1969) Evan Revere Collins, who died March 12 at his
home in Marblehead, Mass., will be honored in a memorial service on Thursday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in
the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany’s uptown campus, 1400
Washington Ave.
Dr. Collins became one of the nation’s youngest college presidents when at age 37 he left his position
as Dean of the College of Education at Ohio University to assume the presidency of the New York
State College for Teachers in 1949.
The college for teachers had 1,500 students on a downtown Albany campus. By the time he retired in
1969, the school had become the State University of New York at Albany with 10,000 undergraduate
and graduate students, operating primarily on the brand-new 525-acre campus designed by Edward
Durell Stone and situated in west Albany.
"Considered a progressive and a mediator, Dr. Collins ran an open forum every Monday afternoon to
take questions and criticisms from students. He reformed the school’s Senate to add student
representation, and he encouraged cooperation between the students, faculty and administration," said
The New York Times obituary on Dr. Collins.
"Evan Revere Collins was a true leader, who nourished both the intellectual and physical environment
on campus," said current University President H. Patrick Swygert. "Even as the institution grew from
an outstanding and nationally known college for teachers to an outstanding university, he was well
known for meeting personally with every new faculty member, and his wife, Virginia, made a point to
visit the home of each new faculty member. The University at Albany community, the Capital region
and the State of New York mourn the loss of Dr. Collins, and our sympathies go to his family."
Dr. Collins was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools in Newton, Mass. After
graduating from Dartmouth College, he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in education at
Harvard.
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New York Secretary of State Gail Shaffer Will Present John E. Burton
Lecture at University at Albany’s Rockefeller College
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gail S. Shaffer, New York secretary of state, will present the 1993 John E.
( Burton Lecture sponsored by the University at Albany’s Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public
Affairs and Policy on Friday, May 14.
Shaffer, who has headed the most diverse agency in state government since January of
1983, will discuss "Redesigning Government for Changing Realities." The lecture, which leads
off a weekend of commencement-related activities, will be at 4 p.m. at the Rockefeller Institute
| of Government at 411 State Street in downtown Albany. Members of the press and the public
are welcome to attend.
The Burton Lecture was established in 1985 to honor John E, Burton, former director of the
New York State Division of the Budget. Burton served as director of the budget under Gov.
Thomas Dewey from 1943 to 1950. In addition to modernizing the state budget process, he was
1 a key member of the special committee which recommended the creation of the State University
system. Burton also initiated an internship program in the 1940s which evolved into what today
is the Graduate School of Public Affairs and Policy, one of the four schools which make up
Rockefeller College.
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As secretary of state, Shaffer administers the state’s coastal management program, the
anti-poverty office, the office of fire prevention and control, the bureau of corporations, the
office for local government services and the ombudsman program. She also chairs the state’s
Emergency Financial Control Board for the City of Yonkers. Shaffer played a major role in
resolving the 1988 fiscal crisis precipitated by the city’s contempt of court charge for refusing to
implement a federal housing desegregation order.
The Burton Lecture will be followed by the Distinguished Public Service Awards
Ceremony for Outstanding Contributions to New York State Public Service. In addition to
Shaffer, this year’s award recipients include Laura B, Chodos, a former member of the state
Board of Regents; Harvy Lipman, state editor at The Times Union; W. Michael Losinger, deputy
commissioner of operations at the Department of Motor Vehicles; and Marguerite T. Saunders,
commissioner of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
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