Sonia Shah, an award-winning journalist who covers science and international human rights issues, has been named as New Paltz’s 2014 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism. She will join the New Paltz faculty in the spring of 2014 to teach the journalism seminar “Science, Environment, and Disease: New Approaches to Science Journalism.” Shah is the author of several critically acclaimed and prize-winning books, including “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years,” based on five years of original reportage in Cameroon, Malawi, Panama and elsewhere; “The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest...
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President Donald P. Christian and Vice President for Student Affairs L. David Rooney were joined by President Paul Williams of DASNY, Principal Vincent Lepera of Architecture +, Assemblyman Kevin Cahill ’77, Joann Drake (representing state Sen. John Bonacic’s office), and others at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new residence hall on Thursday, Dec.19. “Continued progress on building and improving our physical environment is critical to our ability to serve current and future students with the high-quality programs and opportunities they deserve,” said Christian. New...
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Graduate Coordinator Matthew Friday (Art) has been selected as a 2013-14 Art+Environment Visiting Artist at Pitzer College, a small, liberal arts college near Los Angeles, Calif. The prestigious program is supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Grant in the amount of $50,000, which will be used by Friday and the design collective SPURSE, where he is a senior partner, to design a permanent installation at Pitzer. Friday will serve as the project’s operational director. “We are developing a catalytic eco-art strategy for deep placemaking...
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Six New Paltz chemistry students have been working with School of Science and Engineering Dean Daniel Freedman for the last two years to conduct groundbreaking research in developing the next generation of computer chips. Peter Nastasi ’13 is currently working on the project full-time at Freedman’s lab at SUNY New Paltz. Miles Marnell (Chemistry) ’11, currently a PhD student at the University of Rochester,...
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The Sojourner Truth Library has launched a revised website with several new, easy-to-navigate features. Users can now search directly from the main page; use a single search box to find articles, books, and ebooks from dozens of sources; and a virtual book shelf. Popular features from the previous version, including Ask a Librarian, news and events, library hours, and research guides, remain on the...
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