Category: News Releases

NEW PALTZ — As war looms on the horizon, the Women’s Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz is sponsoring several presentations and two photography exhibits in late March and early April focusing on war and peace. On March 27, at 5 p.m., in Lecture Center 104, Women’s Studies will celebrate women’s…

NEW PALTZ — Attorney Mara Verheyden-Hillard, co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice, brings her expertise to SUNY New Paltz with a lecture on “War, Civil Rights and the Law.” At 8 p.m., March 31, in the auditorium of the Coykendall Science Building,Verheyden-Hillard will discuss recent executive orders, congressional acts…

NEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz has received a $12,500 “Healthy Campus/Community Demonstration Project Grant” from the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The grant, co-authored and co-directed by Ray Schwarz,…

NEW PALTZ — On September 11, 2001, many New Yorkers lost loved ones or were displaced from their homes and places of work. Many of us still are coping with personal loss, stress and trauma. How can professionals and educators best address the mental health and emotional needs of people…

NEW PALTZ — The Annual Business Day Conference takes place in the SUNY New Paltz Student Union Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, March 28. The conference, sponsored by the student chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the SUNY New Paltz School of Business, provides workshops…

NEW PALTZ — Dr. John Harrington, Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at SUNY New Paltz, will be the featured speaker in this month’s Science and Engineering colloquium. The colloquium, “Blood Substitutes,” will take place on Thursday, March 6, in the Coykendall Science Building on the New Paltz…

NEW PALTZ — Professor Gerald Sorin’s new biography, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, chronicles the life of the politically prolific Howe, whose contributions as a writer and activist made him an important figure in the development of 20th century political and social thought. Howe’s achievements include a 40-year position…

NEW PALTZ — Martha Tait-Watkins, Sr. Career Counselor for the SUNY New Paltz Career Advising & Fieldwork Center, has attained certification as a National Certified Counselor (NCC) through the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. (NBCC). She joins more than 30,000 NCCs who are certified through the NBCC. The NBCC, located…

NEW PALTZ — Professor John Kekes, a well known author and a professor of philosophy and public policy at the State University of New York at Albany, will speak on conservatism at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at SUNY New Paltz in the Old Main Building, room 215. “Ideas associated…

NEW PALTZ — Alexander Stille, a distinguished journalist and author, will give a lecture on the SUNY New Paltz campus, called “Italian Jews Under Fascism,” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26, in room 100 of the Lecture Center. The lecture is sponsored by the Traverso Endowment and the Italian Studies…