SUNY New Paltz News Pulse: July 5, 2004

Awards, Honors, Appointments and Recognition

Laura Schultz (Registrar’s Office) has been promoted to assistant registrar. Schultz will maintain classroom scheduling and special room assignments, and is now responsible for changes to the fall schedule and will coordinate course offerings for Spring 2005. She can be reached at x3112.

Denise Warren, previously of the Student Affairs Office, has joined the Registrar’s Office as secretary to the registrar. Warren can be reached at x3101.

The following faculty will receive promotions, effective Sept. 1, 2004: Michael Muffs to associate professor (Educational Administration); Cornelis DeGroot to associate professor (Elementary Education); Mary Hafeli to associate professor (Art); Nancy Johnson to associate professor (English); Mary Ekman to associate professor (Foreign Languages); Glenn Geher to associate professor (Psychology); Douglas Maynard to associate professor (Psychology); Hanh Pham to associate professor (Computer Science); Baback Izadi to associate professor (Electrical & Computer Engineering); Mary Boyle to full professor (Music); Krishnamurthi Ravishankar to full professor (Mathematics). Tenure announcments will appear in a future issue of News Pulse. Congratulations to all of you!

Sangsook Park (Art) will receive promotion to assistant professor for successfully completing the Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Diego Dominici (Mathematics) is one of 13 educators from 11 states and Puerto Rico currently serving as visiting scholars at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in a four-week information- sharing event. Dominici is attending sessions that focus on issues related to fairness in testing, from question conception through test administration and research. The ETS is the world’s largest private, nonprofit educational testing and measurement organization and a leader in education research.

Presentations & Exhibitions

Lawrence McGlinn (Geography) presented his research “Hudson River PCBs: A Geography of Public Response” at the Department of Geography, National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan, on May 19.

Publications

Sarah Wyman Cleaveland (English) published a chapter, “Painting the Poetic Image: Lessons James Wright Learned from Hispanic Poets and Painters,” in the book “The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World”; ed. Zenia Sacks DaSilva [Hofstra U.] (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) 399-410.

Students in the News

Two graduate-level students in the Department of Geology delivered professional presentations and were published in abstract (NY State Museum Circular 66) at the Eighth Northeastern Natural History Conference in Albany on May 19-22. Graduate candidate Colette M. Plassmann presented her paper “Late Wisconsinan Deglaciation, Ulster County Soils Map 97, Southeastern New York.” Heather R. Hall, a teacher in the Wallkill High School, presented her paper “Remarkable Mid-Devonian Inarticulata Population and Pedicle Valve Orientation, Southeastern New York.” Both presentations were co-authored by Russell H. Waines (Geology).

In Memoriam

Erin Wright, a recent transfer student in the Art Education Program, died recently after a failed liver transplant. Wright made significant contributions in her courses and in the Art Education Program during the short time she was a student at New Paltz. She was also involved in the Clearwater Sloop -- a regional environmental program that has made strides in preserving the beauty of the Hudson Valley. There will be a special event aboard Clearwater Sloop on July 15 in her memory. For more information contact Clearwater at (845) 454-7673. Faculty members in the Art Education Program will be planning a memorial service for Wright when her classmates return to campus in the fall.

JULY 5, 2004
Volume 2, Issue 13

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