Category: News Releases

NEW PALTZ — The International Business Network of Greater New York, Inc. (IBN) has selected the School of Business at SUNY New Paltz as the winner of the 2000 Averell Harriman International Award for Education for its international business programs. The award will be presented on Tuesday, May 9th, 2000,…

NEW PALTZ — June Beallor, co-producer of the film which won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation’s The Last Days, will be presenting the documentary at SUNY New Paltz on Tuesday, May 9. The presentation is part of the…

NEW PALTZ — Martín Espada, professor of creative writing and Latino poetry at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will read his poetry on Thursday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 100 on the SUNY New Paltz campus. This event, featuring the man many consider “the Latin poet…

NEW PALTZ — C. J. Hooker Middle School (Goshen) finished first out of 34 middle and junior high schools statewide that competed in the B Division New York State Science Olympiad, held at SUNY New Paltz on April 1. At the Olympiad, 510 students competed in 23 events involving biology,…

NEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz campus newspaper, The Oracle, won third place honors for overall excellence in a national contest of the Society for Collegiate Journalists the nation’s oldest honor society for students of mass communication, according to Shelly Wright, a lecturer in the university’s Journalism Program. “This is…

NEW PALTZ — On Thursday, April 13, the Department of Philosophy at SUNY New Paltz will welcome Edward Wierenga, professor of religion and classics at the University of Rochester. He will lecture on the philosophy of religion, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Honors Center, College Hall H-111. Wierenga’s presentation, “Timelessness…

NEW PALTZ — Louis De Vorsey, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Georgia, will speak at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, April 12. His talk, “Applied Geography from the World Court to Death Row,” will be held from 3:30 until 5 p.m. in Lecture Center 112. Ronald Knapp, geography…

NEW PALTZ — Robert E. Funk, author and retired New York state archaeologist, will speak at SUNY New Paltz on Monday, April 10. His talk, “Current Research in Iroquoian Archaeology: the Garoga, Smith and Klock Sites,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the 10th floor lounge of the Jacobson Faculty…

NEW PALTZ — On Thursday, the FBI notified the campus that they had received a call reporting that a bomb would go off in a SUNY New Paltz science building on Friday. University Police conducted a search and arranged for a specially trained state police dog to be brought in…

NEW PALTZ — Da Chen, Hudson Valley resident and author of the nationally-acclaimed memoirColors of the Mountain (Random House, 2000), will speak at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, April 5. The presentation, free of charge and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in Studley Theatre. Chen will open with…