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Longtime Harpur College Friend, Artist Ruby Wang, Shares Talent with University Art Museum Ruby H. Wang, a leading Chinese-American artist and former Southern Tier resident graciously donated 2 of her paintings,"The Other Side of the World #7" and "Spring Has Come" to Binghamton University’s Art Museum at a reception on March 1, 2002 in the Anderson Center Reception Room. She was honored for her superlative contributions over many years to the teaching and appreciation of Chinese art and culture at Binghamton University and the local community.
"We are very grateful at Harpur College and Binghamton University for the gifts from Ruby Wang and the Chinese Arts Association," said Harpur College Dean Jean Pierre Mileur, "The University Art Gallery will treasure these wonderful exhibits of Ruby Wang's art in their permanent collection." Wang, a native of Nanjiing, China, received formal training in Chinese landscape painting from Taiwan Normal University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Her husband’s career with IBM brought them to this area. While raising a family, Wang gave private art lessons and exhibited her work at the University Art Museum, Roberson Art Museum, and other local venues. During this time, she also founded the Chinese Arts Association. "In 1983, I went to China and found my traditional art [style] was everywhere, yet I had already been in the United States for over 20 years," explained Wang, "The new Western environment changed my mind. I find that the two worlds are rather different and sometimes very opposite. When I went to China in 1983, I was homesick [for China], yet I came back to the U.S. I often think of China as my home country, and yet this is my country too. Emotionally, I appreciate both cultures." Wang said she admires both Chinese and American cultures and blends both in her artwork, not only with technique, but with concept and form.
Combining the contrasts of Eastern and Western cultures in her paintings, Wang's works can be found in such corporate and public collections as IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, St. Johns' University, as well as private collections throughout the United States, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Australia and Bermuda. Wang has exhibited her paintings in the East and West Gallery in Victoria, Australia; the Chung-shan Gallery in Beijing, China, and the Pennsylvania State University in Scranton, PA. She has taught at the Nanjing Teacher's College, Taiwan Normal University and while a Binghamton resident, taught workshops at the University and in the Binghamton community. Wang currently resides in Torrance, California.
Members of the Chinese Arts Association Board of Directors will also make a donation to the University's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) at the March 1 reception. The Association, which disbanded earlier this year, decided to donate a portion of their assets to the University. The donation will be used to develop and enhance the VRC'S Asian Art slide collection of Harpur College’s Art History Department. The VRC library features approximately 190,000 slides, 55,000 photographs and a growing number of digital images. The collection spans the medias of painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, graphic arts, and drawing, in addition to material and cultural arts. "The gift by Ruby Wang of her two paintings to the University Art Museum is a wonderful gesture," said Professor John Chaffee, director of Harpur College’s Asian and Asian American Studies Program, "Ms. Wang is an outstanding artist who for many years devoted herself to the cause of Chinese art and culture in the Binghamton community. The paintings will take an honored place in the Asian art collection at the University Art Museum and be a constant reminder of her and her many contributions." The March 1, 2002 reception was sponsored by the Dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences and the Asian and Asian American Studies program. Wang said her donated paintings are abstract, while remaining very Chinese in concept. She hopes they will help the Art Museum’s visitors learn more about Chinese art. |
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Public
Archaeology Facility Awarded $10 Million Contract with State Binghamton University’s Public Archaeology Facility has been awarded a five-year, $10 million contract to provide statewide cultural resource management services for the state Department of Transportation. The contract is the largest in the facility’s history and was awarded through the State Education Department’s State Museum. The new contract calls for PAF to help meet state and federal historic preservation mandates for highway construction and bridge repair projects throughout the state. The State Museum holds the primary contract with the state for cultural resource management work and sub-contracts the field work to PAF, said alumna Nina Versaggi (M.S. `76, Ph.D. `88), director. The latest award means that the University will extend by five years its nine-year claim on the Museum’s cultural resource management contract. "We have a long history of working with the state," Versaggi said. "But this is the largest and longest single contract we have had with them, and the competition this year was the toughest yet." PAF employs between 25 and 60 archaeologists depending on the season. All who work on state projects must be credentialed, and the vast majority of PAF positions are grant or contract funded. Less than half of the facility’s employees are students, but many, like Versaggi, are alumni. Speaking of the Harpur College graduates who work for her, Versaggi said the PAF hires so many of their own because she knows the quality of training they've received. "I have a lot of confidence in their abilities. Our department is rated very highly nationally. Our people are dedicated to their research, they perform very well here, and I'll continue to hire them." While the PAF contract is state-wide, it subcontracts part of the field work. PAF does the field work in an area that stretches from Binghamton west to Steuben County, north to Oswego and Jefferson counties, and east to Sullivan and Dutchess counties. Field work elsewhere is done by archeologists from SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook and the Rochester Museum under PAF’s umbrella. Cultural resource surveys essentially involve three phases, Versaggi said. "The first question is ‘Is there a site here?" she said. " If the answer is ‘yes,’ then the next question is, ‘Is that site significant?’ The final phase is mitigation of adverse impacts to significant sites." Only sites that are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places qualify for protection under state and federal regulations. That means a site has to have a unique set of data that will illuminate pre-history or history, Versaggi said. Archaeologists conducting such surveys must look above ground at buildings and sites as well as below ground for artifacts, she said. In the case of significant below-ground sites, regulations call only for time to be allowed for data retrieval, Versaggi said. No statutes would stop planned highway construction. Versaggi said the PAF is involved in a range of cross-disciplinary research, including geomorphology, archaeobotany, neutron activation analysis and lithic microwear analysis. These research initiatives have diversified PAF’s research program and have made major contributions to national debates in archaeology. Because of these initiatives, PAF researchers are frequently invited to present at national and state conferences. Over the past nine years, the PAF had secured three contracts
with the state, with the amount increasing from $800,000 for three
years in the first award to $6 million for three years in the last. |
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Left to right: Bernie Provost `02 (pre-law student),
Artan Serjanej `97, Mark W. Brown `95, Seth D. Eichenholtz `99, (3rd
year law student at SU), Heather Struck, pre law advisor, Eric Eichenholtz
`99 (3rd year law student at SU), Greg S. Catarella `96, Simone L.
Sterling `98
Students interested in pursuing careers as lawyers had the opportunity to learn more about law school and the realities of the job on February 27th at the Alumni Association's annual Pre-Law Career Panel.
Six Harpur College alumni and one current student answered questions about all aspects of their career and education, such as why they chose to become lawyers, how they chose their law schools, and how they chose their areas of practice. Following the question and answer session, students lined up to speak personally with our alumni. The current student, Bernie Provost `02, served on the panel because he had considered law school and spent the summer working in the field. Provost learned from the experience that he would rather work towards a PhD in Economics and Finance. The alumni speakers have all taken interesting paths with their vocations.
"We were delighted to welcome back six recent graduates -- four lawyers and two 3rd-year law students from four different law schools -- who shared their experience and wisdom with current pre-law students," said Heather Struck, Harpur College's pre-law advisor, "Many students in the audience stayed well beyond the end of the program to continue conversations with the panelists. This was a wonderful opportunity for our students!" |
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 Scandal
fills the night and one man rules the city. John Lithgow stars
as J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful gossip columnist in America,
who creates celebrity or ruins lives with a stroke of his poison pen.
With music by Marvin Hamlisch.
Join our second annual Broadway Theater Party on April 18, 2002, with a pre-theater reception at Sardi's, followed by Sweet Smell of Success at the Martin Beck Theater! Tickets are limited so please reserve early. For more information, call 607-777-4278 or contact harprsvp@binghamton.edu. For
more information about the musical, check out http://www.sweetsmellthemusical.com |
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Success
of Harpur Debate Team Continues Throughout the fall semester, Harpur College’s debate team has flourished. The team was nationally ranked seventh by the American Debate Association (ADA) in the junior varsity bracket as a result of winning two out of three ADA tournaments it attended. The first of these debates was at the University of Rochester in September, where the teamed triumphed over West Virginia in the final round. Its second tournament was at Liberty University in late November, where Becky Green `02 and Kim Rocque `05 competed together as a team for the first time. Despite this being only Rocque’s second tournament, the team went 4-2 in pre-elimination rounds, beating Clarion University, John Carroll University, Wayne State University and Wake Forest University. The only school Green and Rocque fell to was George Mason University, who handed them both their losses. However, after qualifying for elimination rounds, Binghamton and George Mason were destined to clash in the semi-finals, where, on a 2-1 decision, Green and Rocque triumphed and advanced to finals to beat John Carroll and win the tournament. In addition to taking home a glass flame for a trophy, Green was ranked top speaker in her division, bringing back a gavel to add to her collection. At the start of the spring semester the team traveled to Cornell, where Green and O-sun Lee `02 competed in the Junior Varsity division. Despite its being Lee’s first tournament ever, the duo went 5-1 in pre-elimination rounds and won their division at the tournament over the University of Vermont. Along the way, Green and Lee defeated the University of Rochester, West Virginia University and Pennsylvania State University, as well as West Point. Green was once again ranked top speaker. In addition to the team’s success in competition, its numbers are continuing to grow. A course titled "Policy Debate," cross-listed this semester in rhetoric, women’s studies and Africana studies, had an initial enrollment of 28 students, with many others desiring to petition the course. Some of the team’s newest debaters, such as Lee and Vicki Litvinenko `04, found out about its existence only after enrolling in the course. The popularity and subject matter of the "Policy Debate"
class inspired the Political Science Department to request a cross-listing
of the course for fall 2002, offering its students an opportunity
to learn how to debate about U.S. federal government policy. No
doubt, as the support and success of the Harpur debate team continues,
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| ........................................ New! Harpur Friends and Family In response to your much-appreciated feedback, the Harpur Hotline has begun a regular feature of alumni news. Send us anything you want: publications, promotions, marriages, babies, graduations, retirements, or anything else you wish to share. We want to share the good news about our Harpur friends and family. A great, big thank you to everyone who replied to the last Hotline's inquiry for your latest news. Here's what a few of your fellow Harpur alumni are doing:
1978: Christopher A. Faraone is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 1988. Faraone is Harpur College's 2002 Romano Lecture presenter, scheduled to give "From Wandering to Demonic Wombs: Magic and Gynecology in the Roman Empire" on March 14, 2002 in the Anderson Center Reception Room. 1980: Since 1997, Nancy (Rasile) Hayko has been National Sales Manager at National Pipe & Plastic in Vestal, NY. Previously, She was a Sales Manager with Prudential Insurance Company. Nancy and her husband David are proud parents of Nicholas, age 3 1/2. 1985: George Guba is a Multi-Media Instructional Designer at Broome Community College. He spent the summer of 2000 in Borovici, Russia, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, teaching methods of developing distance-learning courses for multiple forms of delivery, such as the Internet or CD Rom. Last summer, he toured Russia with the State Department's Community Connections program and met with former participants who came to the U.S. to study American education, democracy, marketing, and business. 1990: Be sure to look for Brinille Ellis on CNN on Friday, March 8th. She will be interviewed for a program about her decision to join the Foreign Service, for which she was recently sworn in by Secretary Colin Powell. Ellis is also assigned to work as a consular and political officer at the American Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is slated to leave for this post in September. Please send all information and photos (.jpg preferred) to Ingrid
Husisian, Hotline Editor, at husisian@binghamton.edu
or by mail to the Harpur College Dean's Office, LN 2430, Binghamton
University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000. We look forward
to hearing from you! |
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Announcing
a new way for you to buy Harpur merchandise.
Shop the campus bookstore from the comfort of your PC or Mac. Want
to pick up a copy of the new Harpur history book The Cornerstone?
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For other Campus News, visit: http://www.binghamton.edu/home/about/default.html Back Issues: February 19, 2002 |
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PAF
won the contract in a competitive bidding that attracted 10 rivals.
It was the fourth consecutive state contract to be won by PAF over
the past 10 years. 
Check
out the Harpur mugs, the cool notecards and bumper stickers.
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