Younghwan Song, professor of Economics, is the recipient of a mini-grant from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research that will allow him to pursue his research on “Rising Health Insurance Premiums and Job Displacement.” Also, Song has had a paper accepted for publishing in Labour Economics relating to “Recall Bias in the Displaced Workers Survey: Are Layoffs Really Lemons?”
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Rudy Nydegger, professor of Management and Psychology, recently was honored with the David Mitchell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Psychology by the New York Psychological Association.
Read MoreStudent presents geology paper
The Location, Identification, and Size Distribution of Depleted Uranium Grains in Reservoir Sediments was the title of a paper presented by Doris Lo '07 at the recent American Geophysical Union meeting in Baltimore. Co-authors were Geology Research Professor Robert Fleischer and former student Elizabeth Albert and Professor John Arnason of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of the University at Albany.
Environmentally undesirable, uranium-rich grains in sediment layers can be identified by analysis of etched particle tracks from nuclear fission produced by neutrons. Each uranium-rich particle produces a sunburst of tracks in which the number of tracks reveals the size of the particle.
From 1958 to 1984, National Lead Industries processed depleted uranium at its plant in Colonie, N.Y. Depleted uranium particles emitted from its exhaust stacks have been found up to 40 kilometers away. The group studied a sediment core taken from a small body of water, the Patroon Reservoir near the now abandoned National Lead plant. Use of that core demonstrates how induced nuclear tracks can locate microscopic high-uranium grains for further mineralogical study; determine the size distribution of uranium grains; and help analyze the average isotopic depletion of the uranium when total uranium concetrations are known.
The authors conclude that the size of depleted uranium particles found in the sediment was controlled by both atmospheric transport from stack to reservoir and water transport within the reservoir.
Read MoreScholar-athletes, staff, others honored
Basketball standout John Cagianello and three-sport (soccer, basketball and softball) all-star Erika Eisenhut were named the men's and women's outstanding senior athletes of the year at the 2006 Union Athletics Senior Appreciation Dinner last week.
Cagianello received the William Jaffe Medal, and Eisenhut garnered the Bob Ridings Memorial Award. Interim President Jim Underwood offered congratulations to the honorees.
Director of Athletics Jim McLaughlin '93 presided over the event and presented Athletics Appreciation Awards to Director of Facilities Services Loren Rucinski and Capital Projects Administrator Paul Matarazzo. Both were instrumental in the design, construction and completion of the new Fitness Center in Alumni Gymnasium.
Ninety-five seniors and other individuals received honors at the dinner.
Read MoreBaker delivers address
Robert Baker, the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy, delivered the inaugural address at the University of Iowa's Centennial Celebration of the birth of the Viennese-American philosopher and his former colleague, Gustav Bergman. In keeping with the German tradition, the papers presented at the conference will be published as a festschrift, in tribute of the late logical positivist.
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