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New Paltz celebrates opening of MakerBot Innovation Center

NEW PALTZ – New Paltz celebrated the opening of the nation’s first MakerBot Innovation Center with a press event and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 11. More than 100 people, including members of the business community, students, faculty and staff, attended the event, which was followed by a lecture by…

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SUNY New Paltz’ Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach part of sustainability consortium awarded a $800,000 NYSERDA Cleaner, Greener Communities Program grant

NEW PALTZ – The Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach (CRREO) at the State University of New York at New Paltz is one of 10 members of the Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Consortium, a group that recently received an $800,000 grant from the <a href="http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Cleaner-Greener">New York State Energy Research and…

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High praise by Forbes for SUNY New Paltz’s solar car: the Sunhawk.

New Paltz’s electrical and computer engineering students showcased their ingenuity, vision and sense of adventure last year when the solar car team finished eighth out of 17 in the [link=http://americansolarchallenge.org/events/asc2010/category/media/]American Solar Challenge’s[/link] road race of 1,200 miles. They raced from the grassy plains of Cresson, Texas to the lofty skyscrapers…

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Solar Driven

The solar car racing team at New Paltz returned home elated last month after receiving the Teamwork Award in their first 1,100-mile [link=http://americansolarchallenge.org/events/asc2010/]American Solar Challenge[/link]. The race began in Cresson, Texas, on June 20 and finished in Chicago, on June 26. The competition included designing, building and driving solar-powered cars…

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Green Initiatives Taking Root

New Paltz has been selected as one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review, an education services company, and has been included in a new guidebook titled, [link=http://www.princetonreview.com/green-guide.aspx]“The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.” [/link] Developed by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green…

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