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Professor of Biology Tim Scherbatskoy, left, talks to Associate Vice President of Facilities Anthony Palangi and Chancellor Kristina Johnson in the greenhouse in Adirondack Hall during an Oct. 12 tour of SUNY Adirondack.
Chancellor makes campus stop
SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson visited SUNY Adirondack Oct. 11 and 12 for the first time since taking her position.
Johnson ate dinner at Seasoned on Oct. 11 as part of SUNY’s Faculty Council of Community Colleges conference, which was held this year at SUNY Adirondack.
On Oct. 12, the Chancellor met with administration, faculty, staff and students and toured the Queensbury campus and Wilton Center.
Richard Kimball, founder of Vote Smart, speaks to a crowd about the importance of truth in politics at an Oct. 23 event in the Northwest Bay Conference Center.
Vote Smart promotes political facts
Richard Kimball, founder of Vote Smart, spoke as part of the organization’s Facts Matter Tour on Oct. 23 in the Northwest Bay Conference Center on the SUNY Adirondack campus.
Kimball delivered a multimedia presentation on why facts matter in politics and what information voters need to prepare for the 2018 midterm elections.
“Young people could change the world if they would only show up and vote,” Kimball told the group.
WNYT covered the tour stop and featured the event during its evening news broadcast.
Vote Smart is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that provides free access to information on more than 40,000 candidates and elected officials, including voting records, position statements and interest group ratings.
Vote Smart, formerly known as Project Vote Smart, was founded and endorsed by nationally recognized thought leaders, including former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. The citizen-driven organization is dedicated to voter education and is funded entirely by tax-deductible contributions from individuals and charitable foundations.
SUNY Adirondack alumni Vinny Otto, left, and Jacob Houston are featured in LARAC’s “The Upside Down” exhibition.
Alumni featured in 'Upside Down' show
SUNY Adirondack sponsored the exhibit “The Upside Down,” which runs through Nov. 2 at the Lower Adirondack Regional Art Council’s Lapham Gallery in Glens Falls.
The exhibit includes work by two recent SUNY Adirondack graduates.
Vinny Otto, a 2018 graduate in Media Arts, has his photo “Oblivion” included.
“”It’s an escape from stress. It makes me happy,” Otto said about photography. “I like getting out there and taking pictures and seeing what I can get. I like to get out of my comfort zone.”
Otto is turning his photo skills into a business, shooting weddings, engagements and portraits.
Jacob Houston, a 2015 graduate in Liberal Arts, has two paintings in the show.
Houston, a native of Greenwich, is one of the region’s most commercially successful artists. He recently received an award from the National Society of Acrylic Painters at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, and The Hyde Collection will feature Houston’s work in a 2019 exhibit.
Houston credits SUNY Adirondack Professor John Hampshire with helping him refine his artistic technique.
“We sketched a lot hands. I did stuff that I didn’t get to do in high school. He really helped me practice and get better at drawing,” Houston said.
See more of Houston’s work at www.jacobhoustonart.com.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer made a public appearance at SUNY Adirondack on Feb. 19 to talk about the college’s computer security-related programs.
Faculty shares cybersecurity tips
SUNY Adirondack’s Cybersecurity faculty encourages the general public to learn what individuals can do to protect themselves from cyber attacks.
Facebook recently made headlines when it revealed that 30 million social media accounts were affected in a data breach, and hackers were able to access personal information for nearly half of those users.
Social engineering is one of the biggest threats for the average American today. Social engineering happens when someone fraudulently gets a person to give out personal information or data. This can happen through phone calls or getting people to click on a fake email that downloads malware, possibly leading to a chain reaction for a cyber attack.
Because October was national Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Cybersecurity faculty shared the following Department of Homeland Security guidelines for cyber safety, including:
- Keep all passwords private. Do not share your passwords. Do not use the same password for any other accounts. Do not use common words, and create passwords that are long and easy to remember.
- Read the security features for each digital application you use and apply them.
- Log out of your applications after use. Do not just close the browser. Someone behind you could open the browser and get into your account.
- Clear history data in browsers, especially if you need to use a public computer to login to an online resource.
- Confirm that your antivirus definition files are up to date.
- Stop and think before you click.
Chef Matt Bolton works with SUNY Adirondack culinary arts students in the kitchen at Seasoned in downtown Glens Falls.
Dine at Seasoned
SUNY Adirondack’s Culinary Arts program serves dinner every Wednesday and Thursday night through Dec. 6 at Seasoned in downtown Glens Falls.
Advanced Food Prep I culinary students design and implement menus following the nutritional guidelines established by the American Heart Association and produce a diet analysis of the menu to be served, under consultation of Chef Matthew Bolton. The Dining Room Service class runs the front of the house operation.
Start time for Dinner service is 5 p.m. Seating is available at 5:30, 5:45, 6, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45 and 7 p.m.
Reservations are preferred. (Dinner and lunch will not be served over Thanksgiving break, Nov. 20-23).
The four-course gourmet meal in a fine-dining setting consists of an appetizer, intermezzo, entrée and dessert. Dinner includes soda, tea and coffee. A cash bar featuring beer and wine is available.
The cost is $24.95 (tax included) per person.
For questions, reservations or groups larger than six, call 518.832.7725 or email culinary@sunyacc.edu.
Lunch also will be available to go or dine in Tuesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. through Dec. 6.
Culinary students prepare and serve an a la carte menu of soups, salads and sandwiches for take-out and sit-down lunches. Reservations are not needed for lunch.
An assorted selection of bakeshop products including pastries, pies, bagels, breads, cookies, candies, compound butters, jams, coffee and JUST Water will be available, dependent on bake-shop course production.
SUNY Adirondack IT Networking student Payton Young was featured in a Cisco video about his experiences working on the Dream Team at the Global Citizen Festival.
Networking opportunity
Payton Young, a SUNY Adirondack IT Networking student, won a spot as one of four students on the Dream Team selected to set up the Cisco infrastructure for the Global Citizen Festival at the end of September in New York City.
The team assists with the setup, support and tear down of access points and cabling for the event.
Young was nominated by Associate Professor of IT Computer Networking and CyberSecurity Karen Woodard and IT Networking Instructor Chuck Harrington. Normally only Cisco NetAcad students within a 50-mile radius of New York City can be nominated, but the company reached out to the college as part of a promotional effort, aware of the success of prior SUNY Adirondack students on similar Dream Teams.
Young was featured in a video promoting the festival.
A vintage typewriter in the Center for Reading and Writing at SUNY Adirondack inspired future novelists.
Write a book
SUNY Adirondack is encouraging budding novelists to put their thoughts down on paper during November as part of National Novel Writing Month, commonly known as NaNoWriMo.
SUNY Adirondack’s Center for Reading and Writing will serve as an official NaNoWriMo "Come Write In!" Space in November. Each Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., the Center for Reading and Writing will hold “Write Ins” where students and community members are invited to use the center as a writing lab.
"NaNoWriMo connects our campus writing community with the community at large,” said Khristeena Lute, director of the Center for Reading and Writing at SUNY Adirondack. “Writing is a skill, and regular practice is necessary for writers to improve. Water cannot flow through a closed faucet, and the creativity is much the same.”
The Center for Reading and Writing, located on the main floor of the library in Scoville Learning Center, is a tutoring resource regularly available to SUNY Adirondack students, faculty and staff. The facility promotes the skills needed for college-level learning, and visitors work with tutors at any stage of their reading or writing project – from understanding the assignment and brainstorming ideas to proofreading the final draft of a written paper.
NaNoWriMo is an international creative writing event where thousands of writers write alongside each other for camaraderie and encouragement as they attempt to write 50,000 words in a single month.
To become an official participant of NaNoWriMo, register for free at www.nanowrimo.org and commit to entering a word count throughout November. At the end of the month, participants can earn prizes, badges or awards for their writing. Some even earn publication offers.
Oded Halahmy’s "Hey Wow" series of wood panels is featured in the exhibit “Text/ures of Iraq” in the Visual Arts Gallery.
Exhibit celebrates Iraqi art
The exhibit “Text/ures of Iraq” opens Nov. 15 at SUNY Adirondack’s Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall on the Queensbury campus.
Artist Oded Halahmy organized the show, which features work from his collection by nine contemporary Iraqi artists.
Modern Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, abstract collages made from the remains of destroyed books and representational imagery of Middle Eastern landscapes are all themes found in the collection. Although Iraq has a tumultuous history, the artists look to the peace, beauty and harmony of their homeland. Often elements from the Hebrew alphabet, palm fronds and pomegranates creatively appear in Halahmy’s own work honoring his Jewish heritage.
Halahmy was born in Iraq and moved with his family to Israel in the 1950s. He was educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London. He currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. “Text/ures of Iraq”runs through Feb. 7.
For more information on the exhibit, contact Rebecca Pelchar at pelcharr@sunyacc.edu or 518.832.7738.
Read more about Halahmy at www.odedhalahmydonations.org.
SUNY Adirondack students venture to Rogers Rock in a canoe generously donated to the Adventure Sports program.
Donation enhances outdoor curriculum
The SUNY Adirondack Adventure Sports program received a gift of a 30-foot Voyageur canoe, paddles and a trailer from community member Robert Weinman.
The donation, valued at $10,000, has been used to do a new student orientation and a cleanup day on Lake George. The donation made it possible for the Rock Guiding and Instruction class to complete an outdoor practicum at Rogers Rock on the northern end of Lake George.
“The size of this boat allows us to put 12 to 15 students in one boat. In the future we are looking to purchase another one and implement these into other parts of the curriculum and use them for team-building and leadership development,” said Associate Professor Clint McCarthy.
A spring graduation ceremony recognized students who completed courses as part of the Early College Career Academy.
SUNY Adirondack continues commitment to area high school students
High school juniors and seniors can take college-level courses through SUNY Adirondack’s College Academy. SUNY Adirondack has established a College Academy in accordance with State Education Department guidelines in order to provide academically capable high school juniors and seniors opportunities to take college-level courses. SUNY Adirondack guidelines require an average of 80 percent or higher and a recommendation from the high school guidance counselor or principal.
College Academy is SUNY Adirondack’s branding for what is commonly referred to as dual or concurrent enrollment programs. Through these programs, high school students have the opportunity to earn college credit. College Academy is housed under the Office of Extended Programs, which also includes the Wilton Center.
There are four branches under College Academy: High School Academy, Campus Academy, Early College Career Academy (ECCA) and P-TECH.
High School Academy allows high school students to earn college credit at their high school. These courses are taught by high school faculty who have been approved as adjunct instructors by their academic division. This fall, we had 53 courses in 22 districts, which included one new district and seven new courses. We provide a wide range of courses spanning our service area from all of our academic areas.
Campus Academy students are high school students that are dually enrolled in both the high school and college. These students earn college credits and fulfill high school graduation requirements on our campus, studying either part-time or full-time. Students can finish their high school requirements, take courses of interest or get a jump start on future academic programs. These students are enrolled in courses with SUNY Adirondack’s general population. This year, full-time Campus Academy students increased from seven full-time students in Fall 2017 to 23 in Fall 2018, with an additional nine students taking part-time courses.
Early College Career Academy (ECCA) is a partnership with WSWHE BOCES, where students are eligible to earn up to 32 college credits (depending on degree choice), acquire national or internationally recognized industry credentials, participate in work-based learning projects and industry challenges and be mentored by practicing professionals in their field of study. The four programs of study are Media Arts; IT: Computer Networking; Advanced Manufacturing; and Business and Entrepreneurship. Students from all 31 component districts of WSWHE BOCES can enroll in the program, and we currently have 22 districts sending at least one student to the program.
Pathways to Technology: Early College High School (P-TECH) is a six-year program run in partnership with WSWHE BOCES Queensbury, Hudson Falls, Saratoga Springs, South Glens Falls, Corinth and Hadley-Luzerne central school districts. These students enter in ninth grade and have six years to complete an associate degree in either Electrical Technology or IT: Computer Networking. PTECH students complete bridge activities at their district in years nine and 10, are enrolled in ECCA courses during their junior and senior years and have two years to complete their SUNY Adirondack degree.
Runners get sprinkled with powder at the end of the Sept. 29 Color Run.
Homecoming encourages campus pride
The Student Senate raised more than $2,700 and saw a significant increase in participation of Homecoming, which took place on campus from Sept. 24 through 30 and included the Color Run and programming for Parent and Family Weekend.
The Administrative Services office won the “Decorate Your Space” competition.
Homecoming is planned for Oct. 13 through 19 next year.
ACCOLADES
- The Office of Financial Aid, Admissions and Computer Science and Information Technology teams earned Bronze certificates for meeting all of the requirements to kick of their 4DX commitments to advancing student success.
- Reference librarian Samantha Berry gave a lightning talk presentation at the Inclusive Libraries Conference, hosted by the Rochester Regional Library Council on Oct. 23. Her topic was "Dismantling Whiteness in Higher Education: Academic Libraries on the Front Lines."
THINGS TO DO
Poet Leah Umansky will speak Nov. 7 as part of the Writers Project.
- Poet Leah Umansky will speak and read at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall as part of the Writers Project. Umansky recently published a full-length collection with Eyewear Publishing. Her previous work includes the dystopian-themed “Straight Away the Emptied World,” “Domestic Uncertainties” and the “Mad Men”-inspired chapbook, “Don Dreams and I Dream,” which was voted one of The Top 10 Chapbooks to Read Now in 2014 by “Time Out New York.”
- The SUNY Adirondack Theatre Program presents “The Box” by Ed Shockley at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 9 and 10 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 11 in the college theater. The play is an allegorical comedy inspired by the myths of Prometheus and Pandora. General admission is $10. The SUNY Adirondack community will be admitted free with an ID. Non-SUNY Adirondack students and seniors are $6. SUNY Adirondack alumni receive a $2 discount. Tickets will be sold at the door (cash and checks only). For more information, call 518.743.2200, ext. 2475.
- “The Future of Energy,” a documentary that captures the movement across the United States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift, will screen at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in Miller Auditorium in Dearlove Hall. Part of the Environmental Film Series, the movie is sponsored by the SUNY Adirondack library and the Sustainability Committee. The event is free and open to the public.
- Karie Provanchie, adventure sports program assistant and adjunct instructor, will present “Thinking Inside the Box: Unlock Team Learning” at 4 p.m. Nov. 14 in Room 206 in the Scoville Learning Center. The event, which is part of the College Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
- The college will hold a Financial Aid Day program from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 17 in Scoville Learning Center on the Queensbury campus. Representatives from Financial Aid will be available to assist with questions regarding financial aid and can even help file FAFSA forms. The event is free and open to the public.
- The college will hold a Nursing Information Session at 3 p.m. Nov. 26 in Room 256 of the Residence Hall on the Queensbury campus. New and returning students are encouraged to attend a session prior to applying to the Nursing Program at SUNY Adirondack. The hour-long session outlines the necessary requirements for application to the program, and staff will be available to answer questions. Reservations are required.
- “STEEAM Ahead: A Celebration of Creativity and Innovation in STEAM Pursuits” will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Northwest Bay Conference Center in Adirondack Hall. The one-day mini-conference was developed to celebrate and infuse a spirit of creativity and innovation into the realms of science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, arts and math (STEEAM). The program is open to students, faculty, staff and community members ages 17 and older. Tickets are $5 for SUNY Adirondack students, faculty and staff and $15 for general admission. For more information, contact Laura Scott at the Office of Continuing Education at scottl@sunyacc.edu or 518.743.2238. Online registration is available.
FOUNDATION
SUNY Adirondack recognized Trailblazer honorees (from left to right) Dennis Harris ’96, Brett Lange 92‘, Sarah Ghent ’80, Rich Johns ’68 and Steve Harmon ’76 during a Sept. 28 event.
SUNY Adirondack honors Trailblazers
The Trailblazer networking luncheon on Sept. 28 in the Northwest Bay Conference Center welcomed alumni, students, faculty, staff and family members to honor and recognize five outstanding alumni.
The Trailblazers were selected based on criteria developed by the Distinguished Faculty, namely professional achievement, community service, service to ACC/SUNY Adirondack and outstanding spirit. The luncheon celebrated the lives and careers of the honorees, who have made an impact in their communities and in the fields of radio broadcasting; nursing; engineering; teaching and coaching; and entrepreneurship.
Nominations are now being accepted for 2019 Trailblazers. Click here for the nomination form.
Seasoned supporters
Support the SUNY Adirondack Culinary Arts Center and the Foundation by becoming a Partner in Dining.
As a Partner in Dining, you purchase passports which contain certificates for a lunch or dinner at Seasoned. A package includes 16 meals, each of which includes a non-alcoholic beverage. The certificates can be used by employers for business lunches, client dinners or employee rewards. The general public can use them for entertaining family and friends. Certificates can be utilized all at once, or two to four at a time — however you wish to use them.
In addition to the meal value, as a Partner in Dining, you are contributing to the success of the culinary program through a donation to the SUNY Adirondack Foundation, which funded some of the cost of relocation.
Packages are now offered at a variety of levels: four meals for $125 (retail value $100 and $25 donation), eight meals for $250 (retail value $200 and $50 donation) and 16 meals for $500 (retail value of $400 and $100 donation).
For questions, call the SUNY Adirondack Foundation at 518.743.2243. Purchase online or by sending a check payable to the SUNY Adirondack Foundation to 640 Bay Road, Queensbury, NY 12804.
Certificates never expire. Reservations are required.
Mark your calendars
- The alumni book club, open to all alumni, meets on the second Wednesday of each month until June. The next meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in Bryan Hall, Room 122, on the Queensbury campus. The book to be discussed is “The Tsar of Love and Techno” by Anthony Marra.
- The Nursing Alumni Group will hold an open house from 5 to 6 p.m. Nov. 13 in the nursing suite of Adirondack Hall. Take a tour of the new facility and network with follow alumni. Following the open house, a panel presentation, titled “Preventing Sepsis in Home Care,” will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in Scoville 206.
- #GivingTuesday, set for Nov. 27, is an annual, worldwide day of giving. Keep your eyes open for more information to help SUNY Adirondack meet the needs of our community.
