Category: News Releases

NEW PALTZ — The Internet’s role in the productivity and growth of the semiconductor industry and the evolution of digital design will headline a free simulcast conference titled “Programmable World 2002” at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Wednesday, April 17. In their keynote speeches, Cisco Senior…

NEW PALTZ — For the fifth year, the State University of New York at New Paltz will host 36 middle schools at the 2002 New York State Science Olympiad. “These events provide a great opportunity for the middle school students to get involved with doing science, not just reading about what…

NEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz English Professor Ernelle Fife heads to Hershey, Pa., this summer to participate in a highly selective research seminar. A current resident of New Paltz, Fife has been teaching at SUNY New Paltz for five years. She has taught courses such…

NEW PALTZ — Patricia C. Phillips, art critic, curator and dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been named executive editor of Art Journal, the contemporary art quarterly of the College Art Association. The CAA is the national…

NEW PALTZ — Albert Ellis, the man named “Most Influential Psychotherapist” in a survey of Canadian clinical psychologists, will speak at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Friday, April 12. Ellis will speak about dealing rationally with the emotional ramifications of the World Trade Center attacks and…

NEW PALTZ — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bernard Stein and poet Robert Polito will speak at a writing symposium Thursday, April 18 at the State University of New York at SUNY New Paltz. The symposium, titled “Language as Power: Writing in Response to Terrorism,” is an annual event sponsored by the University…

NEW PALTZ — The development of communication, cooperation, critical thinking and creative expression skills will be the focus of a workshop at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Thursday, April 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the College Terrace Restaurant. The workshop will explore issues specific to educators…

NEW PALTZ — The Friends of the Sojourner Truth Library will hold its semi-annual used book sale at the State University of New York at New Paltz April 22 through May 3. The regular sale, which is on-going during all library hours, offers hardcover books for $1 and paperbacks priced at…

NEW PALTZ — Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, will give a lecture at the State University of New York at New Paltz, titled “Terror, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Coming War with Iraq” on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Coykendall Science…

NEW PALTZ — Journalism professor Howard Good’s seventh book, which examines how journalists are portrayed in the movies, will be published this month by Praeger Publishers. It is entitled “Media Ethics Goes to the Movies” and is intended to be used as a text for classes in media ethics. Good has…