Category: News Releases

NEW PALTZ — Natalie Rogers, the author of The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing and Emerging Women, will speak at SUNY New Paltz at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19. Rogers will share her methods of using the arts for healing, incorporating examples of her work in a range of national…

NEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz School of Business and the American Marketing Association New Paltz Chapter will hold its Annual Business Day on Friday, April 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Multi Purpose Room of the Student Union Building. The Business Day provides workshops and…

NEW PALTZ — Mildred and Louis Resnick have a distinguished record of supporting a wide variety of regional community needs, in particular the State University of New York at New Paltz. With a $90,000 gift to the university recently, the Resnicks hope to stem the nursing shortage that threatens health…

NEW PALTZ — The American-Indian Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz will sponsor three major speakers in the spring. All of these presentations will be held from 4 -6 p.m. in the Jacobson Faculty Tower 10th Floor Lounge and will be open, free of charge, to the public. On March 12,…

NEW PALTZ — Professor Lynn Spangler’s compelling documentary on the life of Hudson Valley legend Sojourner Truth will be premiered on Thursday, March 1, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The showing is free and open to the public. Truth was born into slavery in Ulster…

NEW PALTZ — Junot Diaz, the noted Dominican author, will speak at SUNY New Paltz at 8:30 p.m., February 15 in Room 102 of the Lecture Center. . Admission is $1 for SUNY New Paltz students and $2 for members of the general public. Diaz is the author of Drown, a…

NEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz named Rayna J. Wendell to be its director for alumni affairs after completing a nationwide search. She will begin her new duties in late February. Wendell has more than eight years of experience in university administration, the last four…

NEW PALTZ — Desiree Grand, a May 2000 SUNY New Paltz journalism graduate and Bronx native, recently received the Marguerite Higgins Journalism Prize for a story she wrote while doing an internship at the Legislative Gazette in Albany during the spring 2000 semester. Grand turned a routine press-release assignment about the…

NEW PALTZ — The Legislative Gazette, the weekly newspaper of New York state government and SUNY New Paltz’s semester-long internship program in public affairs journalism in Albany, has hired a new editor to replace Glenn Doty, who retired in December after 23 years with the newspaper. John Bechtel, who came to…

NEW PALTZ — The first of two new residence halls will complete a major construction milestone Monday when the last structural steel beam is lifted into place. At 1 p.m., construction workers from Sweet Associates and representatives from the New York Dormitory Authority will commemorate the milestone by autographing the final…