Awards, Honors, Appointments, and RecognitionThe Phi Psi Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) is proud to announce the “Of The Month” award recipients for the month of January: Advisor: Stephen Shirley (RD, Bliss Hall); Student: Konstantinos Zampopoulos (OASIS coordinator, Deyo Hall); Resident Assistant: Valerie Michalowski (Bliss Hall); Spotlight: Emma Cora and Candida Ramirez (custodial staff, Bliss Hall). Of The Month awards recognize people of the New Paltz community who have gone above and beyond the call of duty throughout the month of the nomination. For more information and to submit nominations, visit the NRHH Web site at www.newpaltz.edu/nrhh. Nominations for the month of February are due on March 1. Students in the NewsThe Campus Auxiliary Services Board of Directors has awarded scholarships of $575 each to the following students: Miki Nishioka, Kushal Pandey, Carol Lee, Kellen Traylor, Nancy Gill, Jordan Santora, Elizabeth Cunningham, Francis Cruz, Estephanie Caballo and Kizie Quintine. All current full-time students receiving paychecks from CAD, Sodexho Dining Services, or Follett Higher Education Group were eligible. The applicants were asked to write an explanation of why working in Auxiliary Services has been a positive experience. Each applicant’s supervisor was asked to provide comments on the employee’s work attitude and reliability. A subcommittee of the CAS Board, which included Bruce Dubois, Brian Obach, Janeen Delabar and Prisilla Ricaurte, reviewed the applications and made the final decisions. Congratulations to the scholarship recipients! During spring break this year, 14 students from the Catholic Campus Ministry will be doing missionary work in the Dominican Republic. They will be going to one of the poorest areas of the Western Hemisphere, to a region near the Haitian border called Banica. The students will be painting and renovating parts of the mission church. If they can raise enough support they will also build a new chapel. They will also be delivering food and clothing supplies to the people in the “campos” surrounding Banica. The cost per student is about $1,000. This amount includes what they need for construction supplies as well as food and clothing for the villagers. If you would like to help suppoer these students, please contact Hank Grimsland (Campus Ministry) at x3024 or at hgrimsland@hvc.rr.com. Presentations & ExhibitionsLiming Tang (Theatre Arts) did lighting design in the New York City Lincoln Center - Avery Fisher Hall for the “Chinese New Year Celebration in New York” performance on Jan. 16. The performance was organized by the West China Development International Association, one of the most important organizations for promoting cooperation between the United States and China in culture, arts, economics, technology, education, trade and other areas. The program starred some of the best-known performing artists of China, and was a significant activity for celebrating the Chinese New Year in New York. A. J. Williams-Myers (Black Studies) was a guest of the Hudson Valley Black Press radio show, “Perspectives” (CNN 1170 AM), on Feb. 5. Williams-Myers discussed his latest book, “On The Morning Tide” (African World Press, 2003), and the comparative approach to writing history in the Zambezi Valley and that of the Hudson River. The program was in celebration of Black History Month. PublicationsMika Roinila (Geography) co-authored a paper titled “The Timing and Extent of Estonian and Finnish Migration as a Factor Affecting the Immigrant Communities,” with sociologist Dr. Ain Haas of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. They presented this paper at the 13th Conference of the Finno- Ugric Studies Association of Canada (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC) 2003, pp.1-14. Yaser Khalifa (Electrical and Computer Engineering), together with two alumni, Marco Costa (Computer Science ’02), and Josh Ziedner (Computer Science ’03), recently presented and published a paper titled “Evolutionary Music Composer” at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference held in Chicago. Other Interesting EndeavorsRobert Sedestrom (Professor Emeritus, Art) recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Morocco on behalf of Aid to Artisans, under a grant from the World Bank through Al Akhawayn University. His role was to assess the ceramic production facilities in Safi, Morocco, and to assist the artisans in maintaining their leadership as the center of Moroccan ceramic production. Sedestrom has conducted similar studies at the request of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Organization of American States, the Barbados Development Corporation and the New York State Research Foundation. |
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News Pulse is published every other week for the faculty and staff of SUNY New Paltz by the Office of Public Affairs. It is printed in-house on recycled paper. To submit information to the newsletter, please complete the online submission form. If you are requesting inclusion in the next issue, your submission must be received by noon on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Contact Eric Gullickson with any questions. Phone: 845-257-3245 | ||||