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University Archives
Records that document the history of the University at Albany, SUNY and its predecessor schools.
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Division for Research Records, 1974-2013 42.88 cubic ft.
This series contains information on internal audits of the Office's budget, animal research policies, correspondence with research centers and institutes, reports from committees on which the Office played a part and correspondence with academic departments regarding their graduate programs.
This series contains documentation of research and faculty awards including FRAP, correspondence with academic departmnets and several university collectives, as well as minutes, memoranda and correspondence related to graduate program development and various committees and university consortiums with which the Office of Research and Graduate Studies was affiliated with. This series also contains correspodence between the Office of Research and similar offices at different colleges in the SUNY system.
Division of Student Affairs Records, 1926-2005 18.33 cubic ft.
Educational Communications Center Records, 1974-1982 5.33 cubic ft.
Faculty Handbooks Collection, 1948-1994 0.8 cubic ft.
Faculty Reference Collection, 1845-present 42.25 cubic ft.
General Electric- Non-Project Cirrus, 1891-1993 21.0 cubic ft.
The research laboratory at General Electric was the launching pad for some of Vincent Schaefer's most pivotal scientific work. This series contains research notes, photographs, reports (published and unpublished, internal and external), and correspondence relating to all of his more famous experiments as well as a range of lesser-known work accomplished during his years at the G.E. Research Laboratory in Schenectady. The materials cover topics such as smoke/artificial fog generation, surface chemistry, studies of ice and snow particles, and early cloud seeding. The series is divided according to areas of specific interest to Schaefer as well as correspondence and publications.
Vincent J. Schaefer Papers, 1891-1993 135 cubic ft.
The formation and behavior of snow and ice crystals were a lifelong interest of Schaefer's, and in his time at General Electric he was able to focus on the subject during the World War II years as ice related to the safety of U.S. Air Force planes. Schaefer and Irving Langmuir's interest in that topic grew as a result of their World War II-era contract work with the military, and the experiments they conducted after the war's end led directly to their Project Cirrus contract in 1947—an undertaking so extensive that their work in that area merited its own series in this collection. Much of their foundational work in snow and ice composition and behavior was grounded in observations and experiments conducted on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Schaefer discovered during this time that ice crystals and snowflakes could be captured and observed using Formvar plastic. Using this method, he documented very specific data about ice and snow before creating some of the first replicas of specific snowflake shapes. The work of Schaefer and his colleagues regarding ice research includes handwritten notes, drawings, charts, photographs, reports, and correspondence specific to ice, snow, and Mount Washington.
Institute For Humanistic Studies Records, 1977-1980 3.33 cubic ft.
Director's Conference Correspondence, 1977-1980 1.5 cubic ft.
Contains correspondence with potential speakers, funding and annual financial reports, brochures, newspaper and journal clippings relating to three international conferences: "Helios: From Myth to Solar Energy," 16-18 March, 1978; "Apollo Agonistes: The Humanities in a Computerized World," 19-21 April, 1979; "Asclepius at Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist," 17-19 April, 1980. Also includes correspondence and program related material for a planned local lecture series of 14 dates titled, "Thanatos: Perspectives on Death," which was to be held from the fall of 1979 through the winter of 1980. The Conference was never held.