Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Airline tickets await the richest
player at the end of the Capital Region College Monopoly Tournament on
Saturday, Nov. 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. at Union's
College Park Hall, 450 Nott Street.

But the real winner will be Family
and Child Service of Schenectady.

Gamma Sigma Sigma sorority and
Family and Child Service are sponsoring. Capital News 9 anchor Megan Baker will
emcee.

The entry fee is $10, and all
participants will get a t-shirt, snacks and music. Walk-in players are
welcome.

The grand prize is a pair of
round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S. from United Airlines. Runner
up will receive four round-trip tickets on Amtrak to New York City. Other prizes will be presented
throughout the evening.

Tickets are available at the Student Activities Office in Reamer
Campus Center,
or by calling Family & Child Service of Schenectady at 393-1369.

Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Mark
Toher, professor of classics, published
the article “Octavian's Arrival in Rome,
44 BC,” in Classical Quarterly 54
(2004): 174-184. The article explores how long it took Caesar's adopted son to
arrive in Rome
after the assassination. Toher's work establishes a definitive chronology, thus
contributing substantially to our knowledge of how accomplished a politician
Caesar's heir may (or may not) have been at the very beginning of his career.

Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Stacie Raucci, visiting instructor in classics, successfully
defended her dissertation at the University
of Chicago on October 8.. Her dissertation, “Gazing Games: Propertius
and the Dynamics of Vision,” studies the importance of “seeing” and “being
seen” to the Roman poet Propertius' elegies on love.

Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Thomas
Jewell,
Carl B. Jansen Professor of Civil Engineering, and William Thomas, director of International Programs, collaborated on three papers published in the
proceedings of three international conferences. “Benefit/Cost Analysis for
International Study Options” was presented at the 2004 International Symposium
on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2004) in June at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. “Exchange Programs as a Means of Increasing Engineering
Students' International Study Options” was presented at the 2004 International
Conference on Engineering Education and Research (ICEER
2004), held in Prague and Olomouc, Czech Republic,  in June. “Maximizing Student
International Study Options Under Tight Resource
Constraints” was presented at the 2004 International Conference on Engineering
Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville,
in October. Jewell presented the papers. Also, Jewell is a civil engineering
program evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,
which this fall evaluated the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the
United Arab Emirates University.

Posted on Nov 5, 2004

John R. Sowa,
professor emeritus of chemistry, was a member of a group that did a community
health assessment for the Schenectady County Public Health Services to identify
health needs of the county over the next five years. The panel considered a
number of priorities including sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy,
communicable diseases and injury prevention.