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Around Campus: Nov. 26, 2001

Search Committee for Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faye Duchin, dean of humanities and social sciences, is stepping down as dean. A nationwide search for a new dean is under way. The dean will be responsible for providing academic leadership, developing new academic initiatives for the school, and enhancing the quality of the faculty, students, and staff, as well as overseeing the operation and management of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The following individuals are members of the search committee: Gary Gabriele, Chair, vice provost for administration and dean of undergraduate education; Lee Odell, professor, language, literature and communication; Joseph Walther, associate professor, language, literature and communication; Linda Layne, Alma and H. Erwin Hale '30 Teaching Professorship of Humanities and Social Sciences and associate professor, science & technology studies; Yingrui Yang, assistant professor, philosophy, psychology and cognitive science and decision sciences and engineering systems; Caren Canier, associate professor, arts; Brent Goldfarb, assistant professor, economics; Ted Krueger, associate professor, architecture; Larry J. Feeser, professor, civil engineering; Issom Herron, professor, mathematics.

President Jackson also has asked Curtis Powell, vice president for human resources, to work with the committee on the search process and to facilitate the retention of a search firm. "Attracting the highest quality individual for this key Institute position will require the effort of the entire university community, and I enlist your assistance in this most important process," President Jackson said in a memo to campus.11/26/10

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Alumni Hall of Fame Nominations
The Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame is designed to permanently preserve, celebrate, and widely communicate the long and exceptional heritage of Rensselaer. The accomplishments of the members of the Alumni Hall of Fame, who now number 41, are celebrated in etched windows that line Thomsen Hall in the Darrin Communications Center.

Nominations for the 2003 induction class are now being accepted. Nomination information can be found online at http://www.alumni.rpi.edu/Take_note/hofnom.html.

At this site, you will find a summary of the program, a nominations form, and a link to the current members of the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame.

Nominations are due by Feb. 28, 2002.

All nominations will be researched, rated by a selection committee for inclusion on the ballot, voted on by the balloting committee, and validated by the selection committee, which consists of alumni, students, faculty, staff, administrators, and trustees. The inductees will be announced during Reunion 2003, with recognition of these inductees at a public ceremony in the fall of 2003.
For further information, contact Peter Pedone at ext. 6061 or pedonp@rpi.edu.11/26/10

Rensselaer at Hartford Receives Matching Equipment Donation from Sun Microsystems
Rensselaer at Hartford has received a matching equipment donation worth approximately $97,000 from Sun Microsystems for the purchase of computer hardware as part of the Sun Academic Initiative. In addition, Sun Microsystems has provided a substantial discount to Rensselaer toward the purchase of a new student file server.
The matching equipment donation enables Hartford to double its purchase of 12 SUN Ultra 10 Model 440 workstations for a total of 24 workstations for use in Rensselaer at Hartford computer classrooms and labs. In addition, Hartford will purchase an E220R server to be used for Rensselaer's bioinformatics courses and a disk storage array to be used for student files. The Sun Microsystems equipment donations are available to academic institutions on a first-come, first-served basis.

"These additions to the Rensselaer technology infrastructure will have significant impact on several areas including load balancing for improved response time, student access to the latest Sun equipment in classrooms and general labs, and additional storage space for students," said Brian Clement, chief information officer, technical and information services at Rensselaer at Hartford. 11/26/10

Memorial Service for Faculty
The Faculty Senate held a memorial service Nov. 9 to honor the memories of faculty members who passed away over the past several months. Those honored were: Paul Witbeck, DSES; John Bradshaw, ECSE; David Gisser, ECSE; Jeanne Lynch, Management; Robert Smith, Management; Robert Scanlan, Aerospace; Joseph Matthew Madden, Computer Science; Delmar Karger, Management; and Phillip Thompson, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.

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