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UNIVERSITY GEOLOGIST TO DISCUSS
NEWEST THEORY ABOUT ORIGIN OF THE EARTH’S MOON
University at Albany geologist John Delano will discuss the newest scientific theory
about the origin of the earth’s moon on Tuesday, July 21 at 8:30 p.m. at the Whiteface
Mountain Field Station of the University’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center in
Wilmington.
Delano’s talk is the third in this summer’s series of seven science lectures at
Whiteface. The Tuesday evening lectures are free and open to the public. Whiteface
Mountain Field Station is located about midway up the almost 5,000-foot-high peak, just
off Memorial Highway in Wilmington.
The latest scientific findings indicate that the moon was blasted off the earth by a
gigantic collision about 4.5 billion years ago, says Delano. Not only does this theory
explain details about the moon itself, but it also explains such scemingly unrclated
facts as the tilt of the earth’s axis and the source of gold used in jewelry, he adds.
Delano, an assistant professor of geochemistry at the University at Albany, is one of
a handful of scientists conducting research on moon rock samples collected by astronauts
on the Apollo Space Mission. July 20 is the cighteenth anniversary of the first manned
landing on the moon.
This lecture series is sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Rescarch Center and
organized by well-known metcorologist Ray Falconer. Donations to help sustain the serics
may be made to the University at Albany Fund and carmarked for the Falconer Fund.
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CONSULTANT ON FORESTRY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
TO SHARE LAKE COUNTRY ALBUM
Scenery depicting life in the Adirondacks, including photographs of flowers,
wildlife and fish, will be featured in a free slideshow at the Whiteface Mountain Field
Station, Tuesday evening, July 28. Following a short discussion of the latest weather
beginning at 8:30 pm, Dave Johnson of Rainbow Lake, N.Y. will present his Lake Country
Album: A Duel-Projection, Multimedia Journal of Family Living in the Adirondack Lake
Country.
Johnson, who has previously worked for the state Department of Environmental
Conservation, and as an assistant professor of environmental science at the State
University College at Plattsburgh, is currently a full-time forester living in the
Adirondacks. He and his family run a consulting firm which specializes in forestry
planning and timber stand improvement.
This presentation will be the fourth in a series of seven free science lectures
sponsored this July and August by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the
University at Albany, State University of New York. Donations to help sustain the lecture
series, which is now in its 26th season, may be made to the University at Albany Fund:
Attention Falconer Fund.
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THE IMPACT OF "EL NINO" ON ONE OF WORLD’S GREAT FISHERIES
IS FOCUS OF LECTURE AT WHITEFACE MOUNTAIN FIELD STATION
Union College biologist Carl George will discuss the impact of "El Nino" on the great
fisheries off the west coast of South America on Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 8:30 p.m. at the
Whiteface Mountain Field Station of the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center in Wilmington.
George’s talk is the fifth in this summer’s series of seven science lectures at
Whiteface. The Tuesday evening lectures are free and open to the public. Whiteface
Mountain Field Station is located about midway up the almost 5,000-foot-high peak, just
off Memorial Highway in Wilmington.
"El Nino," named after the Christ Child, is a disturbance of atmospheric and oceanic
circulation, manifest during the month of December, along the west coast of South
America, says George. The Easterly trade winds slacken and equatorial waters no longer
forced westward return to the east to raise the temperature of the coastal waters and to
severely influence its aquatic life, he explains. "El Nino" of the winter of 1982-83, one
of the most severe on record, is the specific focus of George’s lecture.
George teaches ecology, marine biology, agricultural ecology and behavioral ecology
at Union. His recent research has focused on the impact of regional development on
aquatic ecosystems.
This lecture series is sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and
organized by well-known meteorologist Ray Falconer. Donations to help sustain the series
may be made to the University at Albany Fund and earmarked for the Falconer Fund.
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METCHEL, IGSTON_ IS UNIVERSITY AT S
NEW VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFATRS
Dr. Mitchel D. Livingston, Dean of Student Life at Ohio State University for the
past seven years, has been named the new Vice President for Student Affairs at the
University at Albany, State University of New York, by President Vincent O'Leary.
"We are delighted that Dr. Livingston will be joining our campus. He brings an
outstanding record of service in large public universities to this vital campus
position," said O'Leary. "He has been both an active faculty member in the field of
, education and a strong, articulate advocate for students. That combination will
serve the University at Albany well." ,
In his new post, Dr. Livingston will be responsible for the Division of Student
Affairs, which includes all major student services and a mumber of academic support
activities: admissions; financial aid; records and registration; residential life
and housing; disabled, international and minority student services; health and
counseling services; judicial services; and campus life. He succeeds Frank G.
Pogue, who was: recently named Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at SUNY Central
As Dean of Student Life at the 52,000-student Ohio State campus, Dr. Livingston
was the second-ranking Student Affairs officer on campus. He was responsible for a
wide range of student services, and directed Student Life research, a student
leadership training and development program and several campus-wide events. He was
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also an active researcher and member of the faculty in the Department of Educational
Administration and Policy Studies, with a specialization in human development.
"Mitch's concern for the interest of our students and his leadership in student
life have been of considerable importance to this university," said Edward H.
Jennings, President of Ohio State. "While we will certainly miss him, I am very
pleased that he has this opportunity. This loss to Ohio State will be a gain not
only for Mitch but also for the University at Albany, which will have the benefit of
Mitch's experience in student affairs administration."
Prior to his post at OSU, Dr. Livingston was director of Residence Services at
the University of Iowa from 1975-80, assistant.director and then director of
residence halls at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, from 1971~1975, and
administrative assistant to the President of Southern Illinois University from 1970 ' (
~1971.
Dr. Livingston earned a Ph.D. in higher education and college student personnel
from Michigan State University, and master of science and bachelor of science
degrees from Southern Illinois University.
Dr. Livingston and his wife, Carol, and twin sons, Jeremy and Joshua, will be
relocating to the Albany area.
Editor's note: Dr. Livingston's first name is correctly spelled Mitchel.
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MUSEUM DIRECTOR TO TALK ABOUT ADIRONDACK SESQUICENTENNIAL
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William Verner, director of the Schenectady Museum and Planetarium, will be the
featured speaker for the next summer science lecture at Whiteface Mountain. Scheduled for
Tuesday, August 11, the presentation is sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research
Center of the University at Albany, State University of New York.
An expert on the the Adirondacks, Verner will talk about the first ascent of Mt.
Marcy 150 years ago. According to Verner, after that first climb up Mt. Marcy on August
5, 1836, descriptions about the Adirondack mountain range began to appear in print for
the first time. His talk will review the research, art and general history of the region.
The lecture will follow a brief discussion of the day’s weather, which will begin
promptly at 8:30 pm. The presentation is free, and the public is encouraged to attend. To
get to the Whiteface Mountain Field Station, participants should take the Memorial
Highway, in Wilmington, N.Y., about halfway up the 4,867-foot Whiteface Mountain and look
/ for the ASRC facility on the left.
This will be the sixth in a series of seven science lectures organized and
| officiated by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer. Donations to help sustain the
series, now in its 26th year, may be made to the University at Albany Fund: Attention
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Ilchman Named Acting Academic Chief for University at Albany
Warren Ilchman, provost of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and
Policy at the University at Albany and director of SUNY’s Rockefeller Institute of
Government, has been named the University’s Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Ichman, who has held the top position at the largest public affairs graduate school
in New York State since January of 1983, replaces Judith Ramaley, now chief executive
officer of the University of Kansas campus at Lawrence.
| President Vincent O’Leary, in announcing the appointment, said, "We are glad to have
an experienced person of Dr, Ilchman’s caliber available to step in at this time, one who
is able to move forward on the undergraduate program and the graduate research initiative."
Iichman will remain director of Rockefeller Institute, O’Leary said, while Stuart
irk, currently dean of the School of Social Welfare, will become acting provost of the
College and Richard L. Edwards, associate dean of the School of Social Welfare, will now be
the School’s acting dean. Both moves take effect Aug. 1. The president added that a
search committee will be accepting nominations through September 22 for the permanent
Academic Affairs position.
lichman, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University with a doctorate from the
University of Cambridge, England, has built an international reputation through the
publishing of 11 books and numerous essays on policy matters.
i Professor of political science at Williams College from 1959-64 and at the University
of California, Berkeley from 1964-74, Ilchman served two years as dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, In 1976 he
became program advisor for the International Division of the Ford Foundation, remaining
there until 1980 when he joined the University at Albany as Vice President for Research and
Education, as well as professor of public affairs.
During his career in public policy, he has worked on projects for the Agency for
| International Development, the U.S. Departments of State and Education, the United Nations,
\ the World Bank, the Peace Corps and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Albany Awarded for Cuttin. sts
The University at Albany has been awarded third place among 286 institutions in
the US. which submitted their 1986 cost-savings techniques to the National
Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)/United States Steel
Foundation, Inc.
Albany was awarded for its Missing-Asset Management System (MAMS), which has
yielded an anual savings of more than $39,800.
MAMS grew out of the University’s Physical-Asset-Reconciliation System (PARS),
an automated, bar-coded, laser-reader inventory that tracks assets missing from
various departments of the University. MAMS determines whether items are truly
missing, or simply relocated temporarily for other departments’ uses. It then
performs the master filing function.
NACUBO/USS. Steel’s Cost Reduction Incentive Awards, now in its 12th year, was
begun in 1976 as a means of recognizing nationally successful cost-reduction
ventures at colleges and universities. It carries cash awards to the top 48
institutions chosen, with Albany receiving $1,000.
One of the criteria for judging was the cost-saving venture’s potential use by
other campuses. Albany was cited as "the first SUNY campus to use a PARS."
"The award recognizes the Albany campus’s constant effort to reduce costs in a
multivaried university complex," said John A. Hartigan, vice president for Finance
and Business. "It brings additional prestige in noting that Albany’s innovation can
be implemented at other campuses of the State University.”
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ALBANY PROFESSOR RECEIVES NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE AWARD
! Dr. David Barlow, psychology professor at the University at Albany and co-director of the
University’s Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, has received a National Institute of
Mental Health MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award for his research on agoraphobia.
The prestigious award provides up to 10 years of financial support and reflects major
recognition by a national panel of peers, including members of the National Advisory Mental
Health Council, for scholars who have "demonstrated superior competence and outstanding
| productivity during their previous research endeavors."
Barlow, who has been at Albany for eight years and is world-known as a therapist for
anxiety disorders, was given a MERIT award asa result of his successful non-drug treatment of
agoraphobia (fear of leaving a safe place, such as a home, or a safe person, such as a
spouse). The most severe of all anxiety disorders, agoraphopia afflicts about 10 to 20 million
Americans,
Barlow and Dr. Edward Blanchard, another University psychologist, founded the University’s
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders in 1982, The Center, under a $130,000 grant from the
National Institute of Mental Health, treated patients not with tranquilizers--the most
frequently prescribed treatment--but with relaxation training, cognitive therapy, or a
combination of both. The patients were gradually exposed to feared situations until the fears
were eventually overcome.
i In 1984 Barlow received another grant from NIMH--this one for $800,000, making the Center
for Stress and Anxiety Disorders the top-funded research unit in the country for the study of
anxiety. That year, Barlow’s successful drug-free treatment of agoraphobia gained not only
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national but world-wide recognition.
The Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders continues to treat patients in the Capital
District for agoraphobia, panic disorder, and other remaining anxiety disorders, including
chronic anxiety, social phobia (fear of interaction with other people), and Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (which often afflicts combat veterans).
Before coming to Albany, Barlow taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
where he directed the Clinical Psychology Internship Program. He was also the director of
psychology at Providence’s Butler Hospital. From 1977 to 1978 he was chairman of the American
Psychological Association, Barlow is a former consultant for the National Science Foundation
and for President Jimmy Carter’s mental health commission.
For additional information about the Center and its programs, call the Center at (518)
456-4127. Barlow may be reached at that number or at (518) 442-4822.
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| FINAL 1987 SCIENCE LECTURE AT WHITEFACE MOUNTAIN
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Plant ecologist Dr. Nancy Slack will take you on a slide trip to the lush Alaskan
temperate rain forests and through Alaska’s treeless tundra during her presentation for
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| the popular summertime Science Lecture Series at Whiteface Mountain on August 18.
Entitled Alaskan and Adirondack Forests and Tundra, Siack’s talk will contrast these
Alaskan environments with the forests and the alpine tundra of the Adirondack High Peaks,
beginning just after a brief discussion of the day’s weather that starts at 8:30 pm.
Slack, who holds degrees in plant taxonomy and biology from Cornell University and
who holds a Ph.D. in ecology from the University at Albany, is currently a biology
professor at Russell Sage College in Troy. She has done several educational and
ecological consulting studies on vegetation and wildlife in a variety of habitats.
This lecture will be the last in the 1987 summertime series at Whiteface Mountain,
sponsored each year by the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.
Plans for-a fall lecture series at the University at Albany are underway; speakers and
j the dates they will appear will be announced shortly.
Organized for the past 26 years by well-known area meteorologist Ray Falconer,
i donations to help sustain the series next year should be sent to the University at Albany
Fund: Attention Falconer Fund.
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