Month: November 2009

Athletics Archives

Hawks defeat Vassar

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY- The New Paltz men’s and women’s swimming team defeated Vassar Saturday afternoon. The women defeated the Brewers 128-102 and the men won 126-101. The women’s team won eight events and finished second in seven. The relay team of Megan Gordon, Amanda Cloer, Katina Lown, and Allie Moorhead won the 200…

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Collaboration of discovery

Someday Megan Ferguson, assistant chemistry professor at New Paltz, hopes that her student-assisted research could greatly benefit the health of the world’s agricultural industry. With the help of a three-year, $430,500 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and two other colleagues, Ferguson can now further her study of a bacterium that…

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Transforming the stage

The Theatre Arts department is traveling back to the ancient world for its next Mainstage theatrical production. “Metamorphoses,” a contemporary re-imagining of Ovid’s text, will run on the McKenna Theatre stage from Nov. 12 to 22. Nine ancient tales, including “Midas,” “Alcyone and Cexy,” “Myrrha,” and “Orpheus and Eurydice,” make up…

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The center of it all

Seeing an opportunity to improve upon its commitment to offer students career support, the college recently relocated its Career Resource Center to a more heavily trafficked location in the Humanities Building on campus. Since the move less than a year ago the center has had a 57 percent increase in the number…

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Mapping our future

After two years of planning and broad campus discussion, New Paltz is poised to begin the first phase of a comprehensive, 15-year Site & Landscape Master Plan that includes building and landscape guidelines. Divided into three phases, the plan ensures that the physical elements of our campus best support institutional values and…

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