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March 24, 2008
New Six-Story Building Planned at D'Youville College
D'Youville College will begin construction of a new six-story, 93,000 square foot academic building in May. It will be located on the corner of Connecticut and Fargo streets, currently the site of a college parking lot. The $20 million structure will house classrooms, laboratories, student service, faculty, and college operation offices, conference rooms, and also include facilities for a planned pharmacy program. Designed by Cannon Design of Grand Island, it will feature modern mosaic precast, brick and glass panels, cultured stone and brick on the exterior with appropriate street landscaping on the Connecticut Street side. "The building will be designed to allow the addition of features such as a connector and other amenities in the future," according to Donald G. Keller, vice president of operations at the college. Parking that will be displaced by the new facility will move to college lots on Connecticut and West Avenue adjacent to the college. The building will accommodate the increase in students the college has seen during the past decade. In addition to a growing student body of U.S. students, more than 800 Canadians out of approximately 3000 enrolled students currently attend the private college. "The college has no plans for any major new buildings for the foreseeable future." Keller said. D'Youville, currently celebrating its centennial, has invested more than $70 million in its West Side campus over the past 12 years.
Source: D'Youville College, New York
March 14, 2008
University of Wyoming: College of Education Receives Equipoise Fund Grant
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The University of Wyoming College of Education, thanks to a recent Equipoise Fund grant, now has four new resources to help Wyoming educators, students and parent groups combat advertising messages that distort images of girls and women. Jane Warren, a UW assistant professor of counselor education, used the funding to purchase four DVDs from the Wyoming Films Freedom Project. She says the films, “enhance self image through mindful awareness, knowledge and critical thinking.” The four DVDs will soon be available for checkout by campus and community members through the WyoCARE Program (www.uwyo.edu/CARE). To check out any of the DVDs, call Warren at (307) 766-3417 or e-mail jwarren4@uwyo.edu. Warren has targeted three audiences: High school students, UW and community college classes and community groups with an interest in the health of young people. “High school is a time when you’re really developing your identity, where you are forming and developing your values, and when you become, in some ways, rebellious about the authority in the world,” Warren says. “This rebelliousness, so to speak, is the process of establishing a self identity. Young persons can be encouraged to become mindful and informed consumers to help them see how much they are being influenced and be able to create a healthier sense of who they are -- not who they ‘should’ be as described by advertisers and mass media producers.” Adults can benefit from the DVDs too, she says. “You’re not supposed to look ‘bad’ or get and feel old, you’re supposed to look perfect, be thin and not age. And you’re expected to fix things to become someone other than who you are,” says Warren, referring to advertisements that target aging baby boomers. The four DVDs purchased by UW are: “Killing Us Softly,” which explores gender representations in advertising; “Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco”; “Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol”; and “Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness.” All four DVDs are from award-winning author and lecturer Jean Kilbourne, a social theorist renowned for her video documentaries on the subject of alcohol and tobacco advertising and the representation of women in advertising. The Equipoise Fund is a private, non-profit foundation whose goal is to energize, enrich and encourage the vision, voice and visibility of the women and girls of Wyoming.
Source: University of Wyoming
The University of Wisconsin-Stout has raised $5 million from donors recently, which will be used for scholarships, an endowed chair in manufacturing engineering, professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, and a new Center for the Study of Ethics.
The $5 million comes from the following donations:
- $2 million from the estate of Minneapolis resident Fulton Holtby for the professional development of faculty and staff, and scholarships for manufacturing engineering students.
- $1.5 million from Holtby's estate for an endowed chair in manufacturing engineering.
- $1 million from an anonymous donor for a new UW-Stout Center for the Study of Ethics.
- $500,000 from an anonymous donor for scholarships.
"Our recent gifts that amount to five million dollars are significant," Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen said. "The donations demonstrate the confidence individuals have in this great university, and they provide us with the margin of excellence to support initiatives that we could not otherwise do." "These generous donors care deeply about UW-Stout students and the quality of the education today's and tomorrow's students will receive," Sorensen added.
"Gifts such as these make a real difference for students - in the financial support the scholarships provide, in the improved quality of teaching an endowed professorship brings, and in the ethical training every student will encounter because of the Ethics Center," said David Williams, vice chancellor for advancement and marketing. The goal of the Ethics Center will be to ensure that all curriculum has an ethics component, Sorensen said. Students in all academic majors will learn the significance of a code of standards in their professional and personal lives, he said. The late Holtby, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota for 41 years, was involved with UW-Stout's College of Technology, Engineering and Management for more than two decades. He generously funded more than 500 scholarships for manufacturing engineering students at UW-Stout since 1995. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the university in 2001.
Source: The University of Wisconsin-Stout
The University Of Kansas School Of Engineering was fully fuelled and revved up at KU in the Capitol on March 10. The annual outreach event gives the university's diverse schools, research and service entities an opportunity to show their strengths and interact with legislators, Statehouse staffers, governmental leaders and the general public. Associate Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Susan M. Stagg-Williams and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean Robert Sorem were there with students involved in two high-profile engineering projects on campus. Williams, who recently won a university-wide sustainability award, oversees the KU Biodiesel Project. The program converts used cooking oil from one of the dining centers on campus into biodiesel. Williams and two student volunteers from the program handed out more than 100 small demonstration vials of the homegrown fuel. The overwhelming response from visitors was one of appreciation that work is taking place to address energy needs. Williams explained the project was initially funded by a $15,000 appropriation from KU Student Senate, which allowed the initiative to purchase two reactors to create the biodiesel. Student volunteers from across the KU campus keep the project up and running. The volunteers, regardless of major, are trained in how to safely make biodiesel. The ultimate goal is to use the biodiesel to fuel a wide variety of vehicles and machines on the KU campus from lawn and landscaping tractors to the KU bus system. The Jayhawk Motorsports team, led by Associate Dean Sorem, also wowed the crowd at KU in the Capitol. The attraction that drew visitors near was the sleek Formula-style vehicle that the team used to earn second place at the 2007 SAE West Competition and 10th place at the 2007 SAE Formula Car Challenge. Students on the team - primarily mechanical engineering majors - design the car, build it from scratch and then put the vehicle through a series of gruelling tests at the student competition. KU is the only team in the past seven years to successfully complete each of the competition events at the Formula Car Challenge, which draws entries from around the world.
Source: The University of Kansas
Youngstown State University graduate Jocelyne Kollay Linsalata has pledged a $500,000 gift to help in the construction of a new building for YSU's Williamson College of Business Administration. "In the 21st century, I see Youngstown State University as the brain and the heart of the Mahoning Valley," said Linsalata, who lives in Gates Mills, Ohio, and is an active participant in the medical and education communities in Cleveland. In recognition of the gift, YSU will name the Gallery in the new business building in Linsalata's honor. "Jocelyne is the perfect example of how YSU alumni make a difference not only at the university but within their own communities as well," YSU President David C. Sweet said. "We thank Jocelyne for her continued support." The gift is part of the $43 million YSU Centennial Capital Campaign, the largest fund-raising effort in the university's history. The new building for the Williamson College of Business Administration is a major part of the campaign. With Linsalata's gift, the campaign total to date is $41.6 million. Linsalata is a graduate of Chaney High School in Youngstown, where she has endowed a scholarship for first generation college students. She enrolled at YSU and earned a bachelor's degree in 1974 and master's degree in business administration in 1980. Linsalata has remained active at YSU as a member of the Centennial Capital Campaign Cabinet, President's Council and the Board of Directors for the YSU Foundation. She is on the Visiting Committee of the YSU Beeghly College of Education and recently served on the Higher Education Leaders for Prosperity in Ohio. Linsalata is co-chair of the capital campaign for University Hospital's Center for Emergency Medicine, a member of the Rainbow Babies & Children's National Leadership Council, and a past vice president of the Cleveland Area Alzheimer's Association.
Source: Youngstown State University, Ohio
Dr. Thomas Rochon, Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, is pleased to announce that Dr. Donald Weinkauf has accepted the position of dean of the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, effective July 1, 2008. Dean Weinkauf will replace the school's founding dean, Dr. Ron Bennett, who will return to the full-time faculty. Weinkauf joins St. Thomas from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he is chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering - a department he helped found 12 years ago. Prior to joining New Mexico Tech, he was a research engineer with Shell Oil Company. Under Weinkauf's leadership, Chemical Engineering at New Mexico Tech has grown to include 7 percent of all New Mexico Tech undergraduates. A student-centered leader, Weinkauf won the 2001 New Mexico Tech Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2005, he was honored nationally for his leadership in Chemical Engineering education with a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Weinkauf has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and applied engineering education, two traits that are core to the mission of our School of Engineering. He has also been highly successful in raising sponsored research funds for projects that include student research. His own research has focused on exploring radio-frequency plasma processes for the production of conformal thin-films, including the surface modification of nanoparticles. Applications of this work exist in membrane separations, fuel cells, ink formulations, microsensors and composite materials. Weinkauf observes that "the nature of our world, and the increasing complexity of solutions to our most pressing problems, requires that we cultivate engineers who can fully appreciate the societal context of their work. The values-based education and strong liberal arts foundation at St Thomas is positioning our graduates to be leaders in the engineering profession. I am truly looking forward to being a part of the St. Thomas community and continuing to foster a leading educational environment where students become engaged in a lifelong love of learning." A native of Wisconsin, Weinkauf has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Source: University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
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