NEW PALTZ — The president of China’s Xi’an Foreign Languages University will provide an “insider’s” view of changes in Chinese higher education in a lecture at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Monday, April 8. Ruiquing Du’s lecture, titled “A System in Transition: Most Recent Changes in…
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Children’s author/illustrator Iza Trapani at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — Iza Trapani, author and illustrator of books for children, will speak at the Sojourner Truth Library at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Monday, April 15, as part of the library’s National Library Week celebration. Trapani, a New Paltz alumna, has written and illustrated…
Read moreExploitation of the Congo at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — The Department of Black Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, along with the Student Association, will sponsor a lecture titled “Abuses and Exploitation in the Congo: The Human Costs of Resource Exploitation in the Congo” on Wednesday, April 3 at 7 p.m….
Read moreCampus television station now on channel 8
NEW PALTZ — The campus television station at the State University of New York at New Paltz now airs on channel 8, as Time Warner Cable shuffled its line up to add WPXN on channel 17. New Paltz’ NPC-8 airs a variety of educational, community and documentary programming, including a weekly…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz School of Engineering welcomes new faculty members
NEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz School of Engineering is proud to welcome Yaser Khalifa and Mohammad Zunoubi into the faculty. “The Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at SUNY New Paltz is fortunate to have Mohammad Zunoubi and Yaser Khalifa join the department as assistant professors within the past…
Read moreUnions past and present is topic for lecture at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — John Baugher, assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, will present a lecture titled “Individualization, Political Generations and Union Loyalty,” Monday, March 25 at 5 p.m. in the campus’ Honors Center, located in College Hall. “Unions in many Western industrialized societies…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz student newspaper staffers win New York Press Association awards
NEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz students Melissa Mansfield of Poughkeepsie and Joe Burke of Huntington have received top honors from the New York Press Association for their writing in the student newspaper, The Oracle. Mansfield received first place in column writing and Burke took second…
Read moreHolocaust victims remembered at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ — The voice of Viennese-born Frankfurt opera singer Leonore Schwarz Neumaier will once again resound. An exhibition depicting the life of Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, who was a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, will open Saturday, April 6 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New…
Read moreMTV Road Rules cast member speaks at alma mater
NEW PALTZ — Have you ever wanted to take a road trip of a lifetime or watched the MTV show Road Rules? If you watched last season’s show “The Quest,” you should know Sophia and Blair. The two cast members are on the road to the State University of New…
Read moreSUNY New Paltz School of Business inaugurates Hall of Fame
NEW PALTZ — Extraordinary achievements in business, international relations and academic excellence define the first inductees in the State University of New York at New Paltz’ School of Business Hall of Fame. Taylor N. Thompson Sr. of Kingston, Paul Daniels of Wallkill and Lisa Greco of Saugerties will be formally honored…
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