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FACULTY/STAFF / FRIENDS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 9 NO. 1 August 29, 2001 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK The Party of the Year Tuesday, September 11, marks an historic day at Stony Brook as we celebrate the You're Invited to a "Salute to Stony Brook," honoring the achievements of our students, faculty, and staff. The party starts at 4:30 p.m. and will end at dusk with a grand fireworks finale. • / Covering the entire Academic Mall and mwSI iiO Cwtii surrounding areas of the Student Activities • Center, Library Galleria, Administration Second Floor Lobby, and the Staller Plaza, this is one party that will have something for everyone. Not only will there be fabu TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 lous entertainment, great food, and fun, but 4:30 p.m. Until Dusk there will be a chance to win two round-trip Rain or Shine airline tickets to any Southwest Air destina tion and other top prizes. FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE The Academic Mall From the Administration Building to the Front of Hospital HSC Loading Dock Veterans Home South Campus Student Activities Center (SAC), the Acade Contact Transportation Services at 632-6418 for more information. mic Mall will be the center of the festivities. There will be food stations sprinkled throughout the Mall. There will be Country IT'S ALL HERE! and Western line dancing performances On the Academic Mall SAC Library Galleria and lessons. Octus, our eight-person bicy cle, will be ready to ride. Also on the Mall, Administration Second Floor Lobby Staller Plaza a DJ will spin the hippest tunes while the fraternities and sororities demonstrate their best dance moves. DJ Jazz Dixieland Ethnic Country and Western Administration 2nd Floor Lobby Inside the Administration Building, party- goers can sing for prizes at the Karaoke DANCE LESSONS AND PERFORMANCES Contest or enjoy the performances of the Ballroom Salsa Country Line Waltz More Stony Brook Gospel Choir, the Camarata Singers, and more. HIGH TEA WITH LIVE JAZZ Staller Plaza Dance takes center stage at the Staller Plaza. There will be performances and REFRESHMENTS lessons in ballroom dancing, swing danc Located Throughout the Academic Mall ing, waltz, and Latin dance. With a huge dance floor, there will be room for every one to cut a rug. TALENT SHOW Sing, Act, or Dance Your Way to a Great Prize. library Galleria The Library Galleria will be transformed For advance sign-up, contact Godfrey Palaia at 632-1463. into an upscale High Society Tea Cafe with tuxedo service and smooth jazz playing. CONTESTS And if your muscles ache after all the danc ing you've done, a masseuse will be on Karaoke Dance Wacky Bed Races Rubber Duck Races hand to help you relax. For advance sign-up, contact Sue DiMonda at 632-7168. Student Activities Center The SAC lobby will turn into a cultural cafe, COME TO THE PARTY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN showcasing the music and dances of our TWO ROUND-TRIP TICKETS diverse student population. Sign up for the ultimate talent show for your chance to win To Any Southwest Air Destination a great prize. Plus Other Prizes Transportation Provided Free shuttle bus service will be provided FIREWORKS GRAND FINALE from the front of the Hospital, the HSC Loading Dock, the Veterans Home, and South Campus to bring people to and from Visit the Web at stonybrook.edu/saiute the Academic Mall. or call Conferences and Special Events at 632-6320 for more information. We hope you will be able to join us for STONY what will surely be the party of the year! For more information, visit our Web site at BR«#K www.stonybrook.edu/salute or call Confer ences and Special Events at 632-6320. In Memoriam Library Notes HSC Awarded $850K The Interlibraiy Loan (ILL) Depart Dr. Thomas F. Irvine Jr., Professor ment has fully implemented the Emeritus of Mechanical Engineer new online ILL service, ILL ing, passed away suddenly at his for Geriatric Center Express, which uses the ILLIAD home on June 2. Professor Irvine he Health Sciences Center has been awarded a five-year, $850,000 system. Anyone who borrows mate joined Stony Brook in 1961 as the government grant to establish the Long Island Geriatric Education rials not held in the Stony Brook first Dean of Engineering, serving TCenter. The Center, a collaborative effort among the five schools of Library—books, articles, reports, or in that position for 11 years before the HSC, will increase geriatric educational programs for students, faculty, dissertations—is encouraged to reg returning to full-time teaching and and community practitioners. ister on the ILL Express Web page. research. The grant was awarded by the Bureau of Health Professions in the Click on "Register" to set up your Professor Irvine's research Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Ser account, submit it, and you're ready interest was in the field of heat vices Administration. All five HSC schools—Dental Medicine, Health to begin. You can request materials, transfer. He published more than Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing, and Social Welfare— track orders, or renew loans, and 100 refereed papers, numerous con will be involved in the interdisciplinary program development for geri you have access 24 hours a day, ference articles, edited several pro atrics and gerontology. seven days a week, from any loca fessional journals, and co-edited "With the aging population of Long Island, it is appropriate and tion. Requesting interlibrary loans two textbook series and many meaningful that Stony Brook is the institution where this center will be by using paper request forms is books. Dr. Irvine was a member of developed," said Norman Edelman, Vice President for the Health Sci now being phased out. The ILL the Founding Committee for the ences Center. "This grant will help allow us to continue our mission of Express Web site is at http:// International Center for Heat and educating and training health care professionals in ways that benefit the 129.49.97.22/illiad/Default.htm. Mass Transfer and an American community, the state, and the nation." ILL's phone number is 632-7117. Society of Mechanical Engineers In the first year, the effort will focus on faculty development and the (ASME) representative to the Sci creation of new programs for students and other trainees. In subsequent Faculty Donations Wanted entific Council of the International years, the Center will integrate community-based faculty, health care Are you trying to get rid of books Center for Heat and Mass Transfer. professionals, and educators at nursing homes into the new programs. you had as an undergraduate or He was a fellow of ASME, receiving doctoral student? The Library wel its prestigious Heat Transfer comes large and small donations of Memorial Award in 1992. books of all kinds. Books that are Undergraduate students needed by the Library will be ranked him as one of the best added to the collections. All other teachers in the College of Engi Firm Donates $25K books will be sold, with profits sup neering and Applied Sciences porting the Library's efforts to (CEAS). He taught many Ph.D. stu upgrade collections and services. If dents who now hold important posi for Beautification requested, the Library will tions in academia and industry in acknowledge all gifts with a letter. the United States and abroad. After ewmark & Company Real Estate, Inc., one of the largest commercial Also welcome are donations of his retirement from teaching nine real estate brokerage firms in the United States, has made a $25,000 videos, maps, documents, manu contribution to Stony Brook's campus beautification program. years ago, Professor Irvine still N scripts, and recordings. The "Through the efforts of President Kenny, Stony Brook has been trans came to work every day in his labo Library cannot accept donations of formed into a beautiful campus," said John Lizzul, Managing Director of ratory, mentored junior faculty, and magazines, journals, or LPs unless Newmark, headquartered in Manhattan. "The atmosphere has a profound was, until two years ago, the faculty they are in perfect condition. advisor to the Student Chapter of effect on visitors, employees, and, of course, the students. When you have a ASME housed in the Department of beautiful campus, people feel better, and they have pride. And now they Mechanical Engineering. His have every right to be proud not only of Stony Brook's national reputation, untimely passing is a great loss to but also of how great the campus looks." his family, friends, students, President Kenny established a campus beautification program three colleagues, the CEAS, and the entire years ago, the centerpiece,of which is, the; refurbished. Acaderpic Mall... Stony Brook community. Stony Brook now has nearly 100 Green Teams—groups of students, fac ulty members, and employees—who plant flowers on campus and tend to the gardens year-round. r Lizzul, who graduated from Stony Brook in 1975 with a BA. in Eco nomics, said, "Newmark is very impressed with the initiative Stony Brook Biomedical has taken in continually improving its facilities and grounds." Engineering Nets $155K Grant The Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a three- year, $155,000 grant from the Music Fest \ Whitaker Foundation to establish an Industrial Internship Program Celebrates * for graduate students in biomedical engineering. This award was sub Fourth Season mitted in partnership with the Cen The Stony Brook Summer Music ter for Biotechnology at Stony Festival, an annual event that Brook. The goal of the internship attracts musicians from all over the program is to create internships at One of the new gardens on campus. world, had its fourth season from biomedical engineering and July 29 to August 12.