Hofstra University News

In Inside Higher Ed, we have an essay today from professor to student explaining why plagiarism is such a stupid idea.

Gov. David A. Paterson has appointed Robert E. Beloten, a longtime workers' compensation judge, as the chairman of the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, a spokesman for the governor said on Wednesday.

Crooked investor Bernard Madoff was given 150 years in prison - the maximum possible prison sentence - on Monday .

From : "AGBU Press Office 2" Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:26 PDT AGBU Press Office 55 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022-1112 Phone: 212.319.6383, x118 Fax: 212.319.6507 Email: press@agbu.org Website: www.agbu.org PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, June 30, 2009 New York-Yerevan Videoconference Connects Armenian University Students on Many Levels On March ...

Experts say recent bottlenose dolphin sightings could indicate that water quality has improved in Long Island Sound.

OCTOBER 15: Former New York mayor Ed Koch attends the third presidential debate in the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at Hofstra University October 15, 2008 in Hempstead, New York.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things you did.

Ilene S. Cooper of Huntington has been installed as president of the Suffolk County Bar Association, only the third woman to hold the position in the organizationa s 101-year history.

The war in Vietnam left deep wounds in nearly every Long Island community and, three decades later, the scars are still visible whenever veterans bare their souls.

EnTrust Capital Inc. , a hedge fund firm thata s handled New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo a s personal and campaign money, received state pension funds to invest from a company he has identified as paying possible illegal kickbacks.

Time was you could hurl a Frisbee clear across a college green in summer and be assured that you would not bop anyone on the head.

S itting at Linda and Stuart Churchill's kitchen table a visitor has to be careful lest the entire day be wiled away sharing stories amidst a strong dose of laughter.

Dr. Raj Narayan, chairman of the University of Cincinnati 's neurosurgery department, has accepted a position in New York.

A Nassau County poet group will name its poet laureate of Nassau County Saturday at the Farmingdale Public Library, but Gayl Teller of Plainview will not be the official poet laureate of the county until the Nassau legislature says so.

The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, was scheduled to undergo cardiac bypass surgery on Tuesday of this week, June 16.

Dedication to customer service helped a young lawyer gain a foothold. Tasha Norman June 16, 2009 In the summer of 1994, John Zervopoulos was hired as the front desk manager of Manor French Cleaners in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Little did he know that a local customer would change his life.

Nothing says summer like a book that lets you peer deep into another person's life - and hear all their darkest secrets.

Conte, a two-time kidney transplant recipient, with Ingrid Montecino, the division president of the National Kidney Foundation serving Greater New York.

The NY Senate's Democratic conference said it's headed to court to try to block new GOP coalition.

Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University.