Posted on May 6, 2009

An article by Rudy Nydegger, professor of psychology and of management and psychology at Union Graduate College, is included in the spring edition of Register Report, published by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. The piece is titled, “Psychology and Hospice: The Need and the Opportunities.”   

 

Thomas Jewell, the Carl B. Jansen Professor of Engineering, has been appointed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology Board of Directors as a commission member of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. He will serve as a team chair for one or more accreditation visits to engineering colleges and universities in fall 2009 and will participate in determining final accreditation actions during the summer meeting of EAC.

 

Amanda Bucci '09 is doing the tree coring that resulted in her research findings. She is extracting the core from the Increment Corer from a Hemlock tree and sliding it into a plastic straw. The core later gets mounted and analyzed.

Amanda Bucci ’09, an environmental science and policy major, was awarded second place for undergraduate posters at the Northeast Geological Society of America meeting in Portland, Maine, recently. Her research used tree ring asymmetry in hemlock trees on a landslide in western Schenectady County to determine the last 200 years of movement and slope stability. She documented a new phase of hill slope instability in this area due to high precipitation. Bucci and Chair of Geology John Garver are co-authors of “Timing of slumping determined from growth asymmetry in Tsuga canadensis, Mohawk Watershed, NY.”
 

 

Charles Waters '09 was among those recognized at an awards ceremony Saturday, May 2 at RPI's Darrin Communications Center.

 

Army ROTC cadet Charles Waters ’09 recently received national recognition for his achievements when he was given the George C. Marshall Award, presented annually to the top military cadet from each of the 273 Army ROTC units around the nation. He received his award during a three-day conference in Lexington, Va. in mid-April. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that allowed me to seek knowledge from the top leaders of the Army, giving me the skills to further develop my leadership capabilities,” Waters said. The son of Colonel Sumner Waters and Karen Waters of Southampton, Bermuda, Waters is scheduled to be commissioned June 13. He will then take up duties as an engineer lieutenant with the 36th Engineer Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas. George C. Marshall, after whom the award is named, served as Army Chief of Staff during World War II. In 1953, he won a Nobel Prize for his vigorous efforts to help economies in Europe recover from the ravages of war.