Clinton cites Decker as model nursing program
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this week highlighted the Decker School of Nursing, home to the nation's only doctoral program in rural health, as a leader in nursing education. “It is, in effect, creating the mold for others to follow,” Clinton said during a Monday visit to the campus. She met with University officials and leaders from the Greater Binghamton health-care community to discuss the nation’s nursing shortage and rural health concerns. Read more
Islam book project funded by Carnegie Fellowship
Binghamton University political scientist Ricardo René Larémont will receive $100,000 to support his next book project through a prestigious and competitive fellowship program offered by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Larémont, professor of political science and sociology, is one of 21 Carnegie Scholars for 2007. Each will receive grants of up to $100,000 to pursue Islam-centered research themes during the next two years. Read more
Solving an age-old mystery
BU paleobotanist interprets fossil evidence, resolves debate over appearance of ancient trees. The prestigious British journal Nature this week published a Binghamton faculty member’s new insights into the world’s oldest trees. William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences, and colleagues at the New York State Museum in Albany and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, wrote about discoveries made near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County. Read more
Public Archaeology Facility receives major state contract
The Public Archaeology Facility has won a new state contract worth up to $20 million over five years to inspect prospective Department of Transportation project sites. The Public Archaeology Facility, or PAF, an organized research center on campus, has a long history of working on transportation projects and, in fact, is wrapping up work on a similar five-year contract, said Nina Versaggi, PAF director and adjunct associate professor of anthropology. Read more
Unravelling the risk for schizophrenia
In a study published in this month’s Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Mark F. Lenzenweger, a professor of clinical science, neuroscience and cognitive psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY), is the first to have found that abnormalities in eye movements and attention can be used to divide people into two groups in relation to schizophrenia-related risk. Read more
Expert on measuring stress creates guide for researchers
Professor Gary D. James has devoted 25 years to studying stress in humans. Along the way, he has studied Samoans and New Yorkers, figured out how to gather reliable blood pressure readings during everyday situations and collected untold numbers of saliva and urine samples. Read more
Isbell named distinguished professor
The SUNY Board of Trustees last month promoted Binghamton University archaeologist William H. Isbell to the rank of distinguished professor. Isbell’s primary interests lie in the origins of political centralization, urbanism and governments. He has done fieldwork in Peru and Bolivia throughout his 35-year career. Read more
