Campus News

A light has gone off for SUNY Cortland employees who recognized endorsing lighting energy efficiency as one of the easiest ways to reduce energy use. Steven Lundberg, who joined the College 33 years ago, has witnessed many of the changes the College has made to endorse sustainability throughout its operations. "Changing the lighting on campus isn't a new thing," said Lundberg, the assistant director of maintenance and operations services.

SUNY Cortland Associate Professor Syed Pasha will be holding his annual campus-community cleanup on Monday, April 20, at the College. A clean community has been a main concern of Pasha's since his undergraduate studies at Madras University in India.

Physicians Harris Silver and William Baerthlein will offer advice to individuals with a pre-medical college education who are considering careers in medicine on Thursday, April 16, at SUNY Cortland. The doctors will speak and answer questions in an open forum from 3-5 p.m. in Corey Union, Room 209. Presented as part of the SUNY Cortland President's Executive-in-Residence Program, the event is free and open to SUNY Cortland students majoring in pre-medical disciplines as well as the public.

Polish-born cinematographer Slawomir Grunberg will give an illustrated lecture on the power of documentary film in shaping a more humane world, on Tuesday, April 21, at SUNY Cortland. Grunberg, who was named a 1997 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Documentary Film Making, will speak of his personal experience and philosophy and use examples from his decades of film making as illustration during the presentation, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge.

The 13th annual Scholars' Day, a series of presentations highlighting faculty, staff and student scholarship and research at SUNY Cortland, will take place in Old Main on Friday, April 17. This year, the all-day event encompasses 120 different presentations and poster sessions offered by hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students and more than 80 faculty and staff members. The subject matter covers a wide array of academic disciplines at SUNY Cortland.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will hold an economic development roundtable at Main Street SUNY Cortland, 9 Main St., on Tuesday, April 7, at 8:30 a.m. Sen. Gillibrand will meet with local business and community leaders to discuss the latest economic development efforts in the region and how Senator Gillibrand can assist and promote local growth.

Even school principals and superintendents must go back to school sometimes. With that in mind, SUNY Cortland is launching a new program to help those educational administrators gain five years of New York state-mandated continuing education credits after they have earned their Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Leadership (CAS).

SUNY Cortland's Seven Valleys Writing Project (SVWP) is seeking applications for its 2009 Summer Institute, a professional development seminar for kindergarten through 12th grade teachers from across the region in all fields of study. Applications are due Monday, April 20. Two application-writing workshops will be held on Wednesday, April 8, to provide information about the application process.

SUNY Cortland Professor of History Sanford Gutman will deliver the College's Phi Kappa Phi lecture on the subject of Jewish-Arab relations on Monday, April 6. Titled "Opposing Loyalties?: A Progressive, Jewish Historian Confronts the Arab-Israeli Conflict," the talk begins at 4:15 p.m. in Old Main on the third floor mezzanine. The lecture is free and open to the public.

SUNY Cortland's chapter of Phi Beta Delta (PBD), the international honor society dedicated to recognizing scholarly achievement in international education, recently was named the outstanding chapter in the northeast region. The three-year-old chapter will be presented with a plaque during an award ceremony during the PBD's national conference from April 2-3 in Miami, Fla.