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
Art historians win prestigious awards
Three Binghamton University art historians were recently selected for prestigious external awards. The faculty of the Department of Art History at Binghamton University has built up an extraordinary record of success in winning external recognition, external funding and prestigious external awards. 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
Ho! Ho! Huh? Binghamton University researchers measure holiday spirit
The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without the decorations. From a single wreath or child’s picture of Santa taped to a window, to displays so elaborate that they can almost be seen from outer space, the festive season seems to spur the need to express the holiday spirit to our neighbors in addition to our closest kin. But neighborhoods also vary in the vigor of their holiday displays, as anyone who tours the streets of their town or city can attest. Read more
