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SBA Administrator Announces Funding to Support Expansion of Services to Vets

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, By News Staff

Maria Contreras-Sweet, the 24th administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, held a press conference at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) on Tuesday, April 21, to announce that the…

Campus & Community

Assessment Questions Answered at Drop-In

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By News Staff

Wondering how to develop an assessment plan? How to write outcomes? What kinds of questions to include on a survey? The Office of the Associate Provost, Academic Programs, is holding an Assessment Drop-In each Friday from 10 a.m. to 2…

STEM

Chemistry Major to Receive Slepecky Research Prize April 24

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Kewei Xu ’15, a chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize at the annual Slepecky Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium…

Arts & Culture

Department of Art B.F.A. Senior Exhibition Opens April 23

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, By Erica Blust

The Department of Art in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present the “2015 BFA Senior Exhibit,” featuring work by bachelor of fine arts degree candidates, April 23-May 10 on the fourth floor of Smith Hall. An opening…

Business & Economy

Whitman School Hosts Annual Holtz Alumni Awards

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Kerri D. Howell

The Whitman School will honor Theodore Spall, Jr., ’69, with the Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the Year Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, at 3 p.m. in Whitman’s Lender Auditorium. The Jonathan J. Holtz Alumnus of the…

Media, Law & Policy

Technology Commercialization Law Program at College of Law Redesignated as NYS Science and Technology Law Center

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Ellen Mbuqe

The College of Law has announced that it has been redesignated as the New York State Science and Technology Law Center by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation. The center was established at the College of Law…

Survivor Love Letter Event in Honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Shannon Andre

On-campus peer education groups Sex-Esteem, Mentors in Violence Prevention, e5m, Pride Union, SASSE, AMI and Sex SYMBALS, with support from the Office of Health Promotion, Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team and the LGBT Resource Center, hope to spread messages…

STEM

BMCE Spring Distinguished Lecture to Feature Norman Wagner

Monday, April 20, 2015, By News Staff

Norman J. Wagner, Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and director of the Center for Neutron Science at the University of Delaware, will give the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering’s Spring Distinguished Lecture. His topic will…

STEM

Professor Receives NEH Summer Stipend Research Grant

Monday, April 20, 2015, By Sarah Scalese

Amy Kallander, an associate professor of Middle East history in the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious Summer Stipend Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She will use the…

Campus & Community

Getting to Know: Assistant Provost for Equity and Inclusion Patricia L. Stith

Friday, April 17, 2015, By Cyndi Moritz

When Patricia Stith traveled with her husband, Melvin, to their undergraduate alma mater at the end of March, she knew they were going to be honored as two among a group of major donors to Norfolk State University in Virginia….