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Jo Anne Stubbe to Present Kuivila Lecture at University at
Albany
ALBANY, N.Y. -JovAnne'Stubbe, the John C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the fifth annual Henry G. Kuivila Lecture at
the University at Albany on Friday, Jan. 21. The program, which is sponsored by the Department
of Chemistry, is free and open to the public.
Stubbe, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, will discuss Ribonucleotide
Reductases: Radical Enzymes with Suicidal Tendencies.” Her talk will be at 4 p.m. in the
Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall, on the University’s main campus. A reception at 3:30 p.m.
will precede the talk, which will be followed by a banquet at 6 p.m.
Stubbe is recognized for her work in several important areas of bioorganic chemistry.
Her research includes the elucidation of enzyme mechanism, the design of suicide inhibitors and
mechanisms of DNA cleavage by anti-tumor agents. Her scientific excellence has earned her
many important awards, including an NIH Career Development Award, the H.I. Romnes
Fellowship, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, the ICI-Stuart Pharmaceutical Award for
Excellence in Chemistry, the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the Arthur C?
Cope Scholar Award.
The lecture honors Henry G. Kuivila of Glenmont, who became an emeritus professor in
1988 after 24 years with the department. It was established with funds from Kuivila’s friends,
colleagues and former students. For more information and banquet reservations, contact Shelton
Bank of the Chemistry Department at 442-4447. 74-1
January 12, 1994
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Jo Anne Stubbe to Present Kuivila Lecture at University at
Albany
ALBANY, N.Y. -JovAnne’Stubbey'the John C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the fifth annual Henry G. Kuivila Lecture at
the University at Albany on Friday, Jan. 21. The program, which is sponsored by the Department
of Chemistry, is free and open to the public.
Stubbe, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, will discuss Ribonucleotide
Reductases: Radical Enzymes with Suicidal Tendencies.” Her talk will be at 4 p.m. in the
Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall, on the University’s main campus. A reception at 3:30 p.m.
will precede the talk, which will be followed by a banquet at 6 p.m.
Stubbe is recognized for her work in several important areas of bioorganic chemistry.
Her research includes the elucidation of enzyme mechanism, the design of suicide inhibitors and
mechanisms of DNA cleavage by anti-tumor agents. Her scientific excellence has earned her
many important awards, including an NIH Career Development Award, the H.I. Romnes
Fellowship, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, the ICI-Stuart Pharmaceutical Award for
Excellence in Chemistry, the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the Arthur C.
Cope Scholar Award.
The lecture honors Henry G. Kuivila of Glenmont, who became an emeritus professor in
1988 after 24 years with the department. It was established with funds from Kuivila’s friends,
colleagues and former students. For more information and banquet reservations, contact Shelton
Bank of the Chemistry Department at 442-4447.
January 12, 1994 M4-/
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For Immediate Release Contact: Joel Blumenthal (518) 442-3070
University at Albany Officials
Honored by Excelsior Designation
ALBANY, NY, January 18, 1994 -- University at Albany officials said
today they are honored by Governor Mario Cuomo's announcement in his 1994-95
State budget message that he has chosen the University as the site for a model
residential ExcelsionSchool for high school juniors and seniors with special
abilities in mathematics and science from around New York State.
Citing its academic and research facilities, central location and available
residential space, Governor Cuomo named the University at Albany as the site of
the first of what he hopes to be a series of Excelsior Schools sited on SUNY
campuses, and intended to "provide gifted students throughout the state the ability
to achieve their full academic potential."
The Governor's budget includes $15 million in capital funding to
rehabilitate the University's Brubacher, Sayles and Pierce halls so that the first
Excelsior School can open in the fall of 1996; $500,000 to support planning, and
another $500,000 in the SUNY budget to provide staff for planning future
Excelsior Schools.
"We are most honored and appreciative that Governor Cuomo has chosen
its 150th Anniversary Year to name the University at Albany as the site of the
state's first Excelsior School," said President H. Patrick Swygert. "We take very
seriously the responsibility of educating New York State's best students so well
that they will want to remain in New York State for the rest of their academic and
professional careers."
University at Albany/Excelsior High School -- Page 2
Governor Cuomo said that special efforts will be made to locate Excelsior
Schools at SUNY campuses with Centers for Advanced Technology or other top-
rated scientific and technological facilities, such as the University Centers at
Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook. The core of the University at Albany CAT is a
nationally recognized laboratory directed by Physics Professor Alain Kaloyeros, at
which new approaches to the fabrication of computer chips are being developed.
The CAT will soon move to the University's new Center for Environmental
Sciences and Technology Management (CESTM) -- which will also house the
University's X-ray optics research program, Department of Atmospheric Science
and Atmospheric Sciences Research Center; a state-of-the-art National Weather
Service weather forecast office; a science education center; and high-technology
business development and incubation programs.
President Swygert noted that Albany has a long tradition of fostering
progressive education at the high school level, as the home of the former Milne
School, which closed in 1977. Dr. Ted Fossieck, principal of the Milne School
from 1942 to 1972, said that school was known for experimenting with "new
methods and materials of teaching and with new curricula in cooperation with the
state Education Department."
In that respect, Fossieck said, its experience parallels the Governor's
proposal for Excelsior Schools. Under Fossieck's tenure, about 96 percent of Milne
School graduates went on to continue their education. Fossieck said his experience
at Milne tells him Excelsior Schools will benefit from the cooperation of parents,
an able faculty, and motivated students.
Milne School alumni include Dr. Richard Nathan, provost of the University
at Albany's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and director of
SUNY's Rockefeller Institute of Government; Robert Abernathy, a retired
aeronautical engineer who is a consultant to aviation manufacturers around the
world; Robert Randles, MD. vice president for medical affairs at St. Peter's
Hospital; and Dennis Stevens, the University at Albany's assistant vice president
for facilities and director of the physical plant.
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January 18, 1994
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
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Contact: J. Fredericks Volkwein, (518) 442-5410, or
Greta Petry, 442-3095
University at Albany Intersession Shutdown
Saves Approximately $150,000
ALBANY, N.Y. - The University at Albany achieved an estimated total savings of
approximately $150,000 in energy and payroll-related costs during its fourth annual
shutdown between semesters, University officials announced today.
This year's savings exceeded the University's goal of $100,000 for the 12-day
shutdown. The University saved $250,957 during a shutdown during the 1992-93
academic year that was six days longer, according to J. Fredericks Volkwein, director of
institutional research and coordinator of the shutdown’ program) This cost-cutting
program was instituted in 1990-91 by University President H. Patrick Swygert.
For the period that began at 5 p.m. Dec. 23, 1993 and ended at 8 a.m. on Jan. 5,
the University saved $104,369 in energy costs, Volkwein said. Energy savings were
achieved by reducing building temperatures to 50-55 degrees, as well as reducing lighting
and other equipment use in the closed facilities.
Payroll savings of $45,500 were computed by adding the following: $18,500
saved for full-time workers who voluntarily took leave without pay and $27,000 in
estimated reduced accrual liability for employees who voluntarily used vacation time.
President Swygert said he was pleased with the overwhelming support employees
showed for the program. In previous years as'many as 98 percent of the University's
approximately 4,000 employees have participated in the intersession shutdown program.
Students and classes were not affected by the shutdown. Spring semester classes
start tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 20.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
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Contact: Janet Ralston, (518) 442-5400
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Brooks
to Deliver First University at Albany
Sesquicentennial Lecture
_ Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, will
become the first honored guest of the University at Albany’s Distinguished Sesquicentennial
Lecture series, when she speaks on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the University’s Campus
Center Ballroom.
Immediately after her lecture, the Illinois-based poet will receive the honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters from the University. Both the lecture and presentation are free and open to the
public.
A published poet since the age of 13, Brooks is the poet laureate of Illinois and currently a
distinguished professor of English at Chicago State University, where the Gwendolyn Brooks
Cultural Center was established in 1993. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 for her
1949 work, Annie Allen.
She has authored more than a dozen collections, the last, Children Coming Home (1991),
dealing with elementary school children. She is presently working on the second part of her
autobiography, Blacks IJ, Renowned also as a social commentator, Brooks has received more
than 70 honorary degrees and in 1980 was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the
National Agenda for the Eighties by Jimmy Carter.
“Gwendolyn Brooks addresses the issue of diversity and argues the value of language and
literature," said H. Patrick Swygert, University at Albany President, in nominating Brooks for the
Doctor of Letters. He added that the recognition of her work would "reflect the institution’s
commitment to culture diversity."
Part of the University’s celebration of its 150th birthday, the Sesquicentennial
Distinguished Lecture is planned as an annual event focusing on the theme of "The University
and Society" and will be delivered by prominent individuals from a variety of fields.
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Contact: Vincent Reda or Greta Petry
Hitchcock to Chair NASULGC Council
oKaren’R! Hitchcock; Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University at Albany,
has been elected chair-elect of the Council on Academic Affairs of the National Assoication of
State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGO), a professional society consisting of
the provosts and vice president from 172 institutions nationwide.
Founded in 1887, NASULGC is the nation’s oldest higher education association. It serves
its member institutions by expressing their priorities and positions to the legislative and
administrative branches of the federal government, as well as by supporting and promoting
research efforts, financial aid, historically black institutions and urban universities.
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For Release: Immediate Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight,
Or Mary Fiess (518) 442-3091
Book by University at Albany Professor Earns Recognition
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A book by a University at Albany professor has been selected as one of Choice
joumal’s “Outstanding Academic Books for 1994.”
Paul WeVogt's Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social
Sciences (Newbury Park, Calif., Sage Publications, 1993) is on a list which appears in the January issue of ©
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
The book, which is aimed at helping readers get through a difficult journal article or passage, is a
dictionary which offers nontechnical definitions of statistical and methodological terms used in the social
and behavioral sciences. Vogt, who is a professor of educational administration and policy studies, pays
special attention to terms that most often prevent educated general readers from understanding journal
articles and books. He emphasizes concepts over calculations and provides detailed examples.
Vogt, who has been on the University faculty since 1970, said he came up with the idea for the
book from his teaching experiences. “I found that so many of my students couldn’t read research papers
because of the jargan barrier,” he said. Vogt said the book is also proving popular with older professors
who didn’t learn statistics in graduate school and wished they had.
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518/442-3071
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Multicultural Seminar at Albany
ALBANY, N.Y. - - The University at Albany will be the site for a one-day seminar on
multiculturalism for an estimated 200 social studies teachers and other New York State educators
on Friday, Feb. 11.
The program, which is cosponsored by the State Education Department and the
University’s Africana’Studies Department, will provide information on African and African-
American cultures and present teaching demonstrations for use in grades seven through 12.
Those attending are recipients of scholarships which cover registration and conference materials.
According to Africana Studies Professor Bojana Vuyisile Jordany one of the conference
organizers, this is the sixth year in which the Education Department’s Center for Multinational
and Comparative Education has conducted the multicultural seminars, While the University and
its faculty have always participated, this is the first year in which the program is being held at the
University.
Among those participating will be University President H. Patrick Swygert, who will open
the seminar; Helen Desfosses of the Departments of Public Administration and Policy and of
Africana Studies; and Marcia Sutherland, Joseph Sarfoh, Vivan Gordon and Jordan, all of the
Department of Africana Studies.
Other cosponsors include the American-South African Peoples’ Friendship Association,
the Human Rights Committee of the New York State Council for Social Studies, the Capital
District Council for Social Studies, and the Affirmative Action Office of the SUNY Central
Administration.
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