NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR ¢ ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY COUNCIL ENDORSES DNA RESEARCH RECOMMENDATION
SHUMAKER NEW DEAN OF HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS AT UNIVERSITY AT
ALBANY
SECOND TAFT INSTITUTE SEMINAR AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
SCHAEFER TO SPEAK AT WHITEFACE
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SCHAEFER TO SPEAK AT WHITEFACE
Vincent Schaefer, retired director of the Atmos-
pheric Sciences Research Center at State University
of New York at Albany, will discuss "Some of the Natural
History of the Whiteface Area" Tuesday, July 12, begin-
ning at 8:30 p.m. at the ASRC Whiteface Mountain Field
Station on Memorial Highway, Wilmington.
+ The program is the second in the current free summer
science lecture series offered by the center. A report
on the latest weather, using colored projections, will
be presented before Dr. Schaefer's talk.
The scientist served 10 years as director of ASRC.
He is the co~inventor with Irving Langmuir, of a high
efficiency artificial fog smoke screen generator, and
discoverer of dry ice seeding technique for cloud modi-
fication.
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SECOND TAFT INSTITUTE SEMINAR AT ALBANY UNIVERSITY
Thirty junior high school and high school teachers from both
public and private schools throughout the state are taking part
in the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government seminar underway at
State University of New York at Albany. The two-week program is
being sponsored for the second consecutive year by the university's
School of Education and Graduate School of Public Affairs with
Professors Edward Sargent and James Riedel serving as co-directors.
All arrangements are funded through a grant from the Taft Foundation.
Among the scheduled speakers are Albany Surrogate Court Judge
Lawrence Kahn; Dr. Bernard Kilbourn, newly-elected chiarman of the
Republican State Committee; Congressman Edward Pattison and Eleanor
Pattison; Rensselaer County Executive William Murphy, an alumnus
of the university; State Senators Hugh Farley and Howard Nolan;
and Albany Mayor Erastus Corning. The seminar program also in-
cludes visits with legislators and staffs at the State Capitol and
a tour of the Albany County jail.
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NATHALIE E. LAMPMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR @ ROBERT H. RICE, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY COUNCIL ENDORSES
DNA RESEARCH RECOMMENDATION
The University Council of State University of New York at
Albany has endorsed the report of the university's Council on
Research which in May recommended to President Emmett B. Fields
that recombinant DNA work proposed by Albany university in-
vestigators be permitted to go forward, subject to specific guide-
lines and standards. President Fields has directed his staff to
proceed with implementing the recommendations.
Dr. Fields, who recommended that the University Council en~
dorse the report, stated, "As the exhaustive research council
report makes clear, the proposed research holds strong promise for
scientific advancement and the safety precautions being taken meet
or surpass National Institutes of Health guidelines as well as the
guidelines that are being considered by the State Legislature."
He continued, "The university has a high responsibility to
protect public safety as it pursues its fundamental role of the
advancement of knowledge and I am now completely satisfied that we
are abundantly fulfulling those responsibilities. We do intend
to continue educational efforts that will enable members of the
university community and the larger community to be kept abreast
of matters and to become fully knowledgeable with respect to DNA
research."
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Richard E. Orville, associate professor of atmospheric sci~
ences, chairs the committee which prepared the report to President
Fields. Other members are Stephen E. DeLong, geology, vice chaixr~
man; Duncan C. Blanchard, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center;
Josiah B. Gould, Jr., philosophy; Robert E. Hicks, psychology;
Leonard Lerman, biology; Reuben Rusch, educational psychology and
statistics; Charles P. Scholes, physics; Susan R. Sherman, School
of Social Welfare; Dean R. Snow, anthropology; Jon A. Zubieta,
chemistry, and William Hedberg and Frank Lucarelli, both of the
Office for Research.
Vice President for Research Louis Salkever said of the re~-
search committee, "I have never seen a group explore an issue in
the depth they did. They familiarized themselves with all the
relevant literature and engaged in protracted discussions with in-
formed and concerned scientists and scholars. They devoted end-
less hours to all conceivable impacts of the conduct of recombi-
mant DNA research on this campus and arrived at what I believe to
be sound judgments as to the policy we should attempt for this
campus."
One project requiring P~l level of physical containment is
now underway in the department of biological sciences under the
direction of Joseph Mascarenhas. Also, in the biology building,
plans are underway for modifications to a laboratory on the third
floor to provide a facility suitable for conducting experiments re-
quiring the P-2 level of containment. Procedures follow those
prescribed either by the National Institutes of Health guidelines
or are extra~precautionary measures imposed by the university's Bio~-
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hazards Committee headed by Richard D. Kelly, biology.
The principal aim of the research at Albany is basic know~
ledge about the location and structure of genes and about the
mechanisms that are responsible for genetic expression. Ultimately,
recombinant research may lead to breakthroughs in knowledge about
how genetic and viral diseases, including cancer and hemophilia,
work.
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SHUMAKER NEW DEAN OF HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS AT
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
John W. Shumaker, 34, who was associate dean of the College
of Humanities at The Ohio State University for the past three
years, is the new dean of the College of Humanities and Fine
Arts at State University of New York at Albany.
In commenting on the appointment, President Emmett B. Fields
said, "From among the many able people we considered for the dean-
ship of the new College of Humanities and Fine Arts, John Shumaker
emerged as the most exciting and attractive. He is a young and
energetic man whose appreciation of the humanities and fine arts
is manifest and his lively ideas for their advancement augur
well for the future.”
Dean Shumaker was graduated in 1964 from the University of
Pittsburgh, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member, with a major in
classical Greek. Later he received a Master of Arts and a Doctor
of Philosophy in classical studies from the University of Pennsyl~
vania. . He served on the faculty of Ohio State in several capac~
ities beginning in 1969, including associate professor of classics,
assistant dean, and acting department chairman. In 1973 he held
a research appointment for six months at the University of Cali-
fornia at Irvine.
Dean Shumaker's academic interests are ancient Greek litera
ture and papyrology and his research centers in those areas. He
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also has been involved in discussions at a national level on the
status of foreign language study at universities. During the past
two years he has been director of a project funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities to implement a comprehensive system
of individualized instruction in foreign language at the university
level. The project was funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities to the amount of $821,751, the largest grant NEH ever
has made in the area of foreign languages.
Dean Shumaker, who has assumed his responsibilities at The
University at Albany, spoke of the importance of the various
disciplines represented by departments in the college. "Humani~
ties and the fine arts have an enormous contribution to make to
undergraduate education. One of our major challenges is to intro~
duce the humanities to those students not majoring in that field.
We must work very hard to maintain close contact with our colleagues
to avoid becoming isolated."
He added, "We also must maintain a competitive posture in
graduate education as well as find ways in which the humanities
and fine arts can relate to adult parttime learners beyond the
research-oriented master and Ph.D. degree programs."
The new dean looks forward to his new duties, commenting,
"I am very much impressed with the quality of faculty and stu-
dents within the college. It was one of the major considerations
in my coming here. I look forward to getting into the classroom
on occasion."
Dean and Mrs. Shumaker are residing in the Colonial Acres
section of Glenmont.
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