SUNY College at New Paltz News

Spencer Murphy performs with New York City band The Element during a summer 2008 hometown show in Clinton Square in Syracuse.

BEACON - Young virtuoso flutist Claire Chase will give a concert for young people at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon.

Anyone trying to determine what Republican victories in the Hudson Valley on Tuesday - as well as in closely watched governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia - portend for state and federal elections next year might be tempted to study the parallels to the 1993 elections and their aftermath.

The Poughkeepsie Journal is doing a series of candidate profiles for the Nov. 3 election.

Judelson, Giordano & Siegel, an accounting and business consulting firm in Middletown, was a major sponsor at the recent Hudson Valley Estate Planning Day at SUNY New Paltz.

Higher education has been one of the biggest victims of the recession. Endowments have been decimated by the stock market collapse, state funding has been cut and, to top it off, more students are applying to college and more of those applicants need financial aid.

Although Gov. David Paterson has called the rise in swine flu cases in New York a "disaster," the mid-Hudson region has yet to report significant outbreaks.

Work: Retired - Active Community Volunteer Village and Town Organizations Education: BS Art Education SUNY New Paltz MFA Photography SUNY New Paltz Pace Land Use Law Institute Training Orange County Planning Federation Training Family: One adult son and a large extended family I am running for Orange County Legislator for the 9th District which ...

Is your administration using "the economy" as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already over-burdened faculty? Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the best investment you can make right now.

There is no time like the present when it comes to curbing, stopping and possibly reversing the devastating pandemic of global climate change, according to the organizers of the New Paltz '350' Climate Fair, slated for this Saturday, Oct.

Editor's note: The Poughkeepsie Journal is running a series of candidate profiles prior to the Nov.

A 23-year-old man now being held on misdemeanor stalking charges in Ulster County Jail has been identified by police as a person of interest in connection with an attempted rape near the SUNY New Paltz campus last month.

The Spuyten Duyvil Public Library, located at 650 W. 235th St., will host a slide/lecture presentation, "Around the World in Twenty Artworks," at 2 p.m. Lecturer Midori Yamamuri, a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center specializing in women's contemporary practice and postcolonial art as well as a profressor of undergraduate art history at ...

Many years ago, after Judy Moran majored in German and then considered a career as a veterinarian, a friend told her which career path she should take.

The Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Asian Studies Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host Tony Ong, diplomat and director of the press division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Stephen Brescia, incumbent Mary Ellen Matise Political Experience: Deputy Mayor, Village of Walden, 2005 - 2009 Work: Retired, Active Community Volunteer Village and Town Organizations Education: BS Art Education SUNY New Paltz, MFA Photography SUNY New Paltz, Pace Land Use Law Institute Training, Orange County Planning Federation Training Family: ...

He may be the president, but on Mondays and Thursdays, he's just plain "professor" for 34 SUNY New Paltz students this semester.

A frightening and yet interesting thing happened to Rachel Reuben from SUNY New Paltz a few days ago.

The word 'art' encompasses more than drawing and painting, something that is recognized and celebrated annually at the Celebration of the Arts festival in New Paltz.

Even among his supporters, the reaction to President Obama's being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize could be summarized in a very short word: "Huh?" A man who's been in office for eight months, whose country is embroiled in two wars, who, in the eyes of many, has promised more than he's delivered, is now the recipient of the world's most prestigious ...