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Alumni Profile: Sal Paolantonio

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Alumni Profiles is an ongoing series highlighting successful graduates who, with a SUNY education, achieved interesting and influential careers.

Sal Paolantonio, ESPN broadcaster and SUNY Oneonta graduate

Sal Paolantonio is a broadcaster, author, professor and family man.  He is best known as a reporter for ESPN, focusing mainly on the NFL.  Working out of  Philadelphia, Paolantonio spends the majority of his time covering the Philadelphia Eagles and our home-state NY Giants and NY Jets.

Throughout his 17 years working for the broadcast sports giant, Paolantonio has worked on SportsCenter, NFL Live and Sunday NFL Countdown and has authored best-selling books, including The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, and Moments in NFL History and How Football Explains America.  In his free time, Paolantonio serves as an adjunct professor at a local university.

Paolantonio will be delivering the commencement address at SUNY Oneonta’s Class of 2013 Commencement Ceremony.  He will be presented with the degree of honorary doctorate of Humane Letters at the college’s 124th commencement, 26 years following his undergraduate graduation. Paolantonio graduated, cum laude, from SUNY Oneonta in 1977, earning a B.A. in history with a minor in English literature in just three years.

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Alumni Roundup: April 16, 2013

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See What SUNY Alumni are Accomplishing This Week!

The Power of SUNY

In addition to our regular Alumni Profile series, we hear about great things our graduates are doing around the country. Why not share them?

 

An endowment by SUNY Geneseo alumni Jack and Carol Kramer, both 1976 Geneseo graduates, made a keynote speech by a former New York Times science reporter at the school’s annual GREAT Day possible.

SUNY Oneonta alumnus and ESPN reporter Sal Paolatonio is set to deliver the school’s Class of 2013 Commencement Address.

SUNY Plattsburgh alumnus Chris Marchitelli, Vice President of Litepanels, Inc., donated $70,000 in lighting to help upgrade the Albert R. Montanaro Television Studios, home of the PSTV college TV station and a training ground for communication students.

Five SUNY Geneseo alumni artists are scheduled to perform this week during the Geneseo Dance Ensemble’s “Dancing Past to Present: Celebrating 45 Years.”

Rosemary Cardamone Crane, a SUNY Oswego alumna who has built a career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will join in recognizing more than 100 academic achievers at the college this week.

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SUNY Potsdam graduate Ryan Zeigler visited the college this past week to talk with current students about his work with NASA.

Click to watch video on YNNZeigler, who curates the Apollo moon samples, spoke with students about the importance of the missions in an event titled “What We Have Learned Since the Apollo Missions”.  He brought with him moon samples from the collection, some of which were billions of years old.

The Potsdam alumnus spoke to local news station YNN:

“We haven’t been there in about 40 years. Our understanding of the moon has evolved a lot since then, so I think going back to the moon would be a very important step as NASA goes out into the solar system to explore again,” Zeigler said.

Zeigler also noted to YNN that it is important to note humans’ technology abilities when we went to the moon.  For example, we hold in our hand today more computing power in smartphones and tablets than the entire NASA rocket was capable of when we were making trips to the moon.

SUNY has an extensive relationship through alumni, students, and joint projects with NASA.  Zeigler’s trip to the North Country last week was one of many outreach efforts that our supportive alumni embark on every day.

Alumni Roundup: April 9, 2013

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SUNY Oswego graduate Rosemary Cardamone Crane will speak to over 100 SUNY Oswego students being honored for academic excellence next week.

SUNY Fredonia alumna Caitlyn Herzlinger, directed the play ‘The AristoCats Kids’ in a local elementary school.

Benjamin Yandeau, a SUNY Potsdam alumnus, visited a local public school last week to speak about his experience biking the Great Divide Bike Route.

University at Buffalo alumnus Jorien Brock was honored by OUTlaw, a student group at the University at Buffalo Law School, for his strong support of the LGBT community.

This week, SUNY ESF alumnus Dr. Jerry Mead will deliver the keynote address at the annual Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach Symposium.

Alumni Roundup: April 2, 2013

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In addition to our regular Alumni Profile series, we hear about great things our graduates are doing around the country. Why not share them?

SUNY Potsdam graduate Joseph Leroux curated “Unconventional Narrative: The Triumph of the Witch”, a contemporary art exhibit open though April 6.

Upstate Medical University has received a $1.54 million gift from the estate of alumnus Dr. Stanley A. August of Brooklyn, who passed away in 2011.

The Food Bank of Western New York named Buffalo State College alumna Jennifer Kurzdorfer as its new marketing and development manager.

Brandon Scharf, a SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton alumnus, has been chosen as the assistant editor of the film Trigger.

Michael Castellana, CEO of SEFCU and University at Albany alumnus, is named Chairman of the University Council at the University at Albany.

Merryll Lynch recently appointed Buffalo State College alumnus John Bryon to assistant vice president of its Williamsville office.

The University at Buffalo this month will present the world premiere of British music critic Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt’s “Les Quatres Temps Cardinaux,” which includes alumna Laura Aikin.

SUNY Potsdam is hosting the 2013 SUNY Potsdam Academic Festival this month, which includes presentations from guest scientists including several accomplished alumni.

Maritime College will salute honorable alumnus Edward Pfleging, P.E. at its Admiral’s Scholarship Dinner in May.

Alumni Profile: Christopher Macchia & Roger Noyes

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Alumni Profiles is an ongoing series highlighting successful graduates who, with a SUNY education, achieved interesting and influential careers.

Arch Stanton Quartet's Christopher Macchia and Roger Noyes

 

This week’s alumni profiles takes a look at a pair of alumni who are bandmates playing abroad this month.  The Arch Stanton Quartet, a quartet including Christopher Macchia (SUNY New Paltz ’00) and Roger Noyes (University at Albany ’03), is currently touring Egypt in conjunction with AMIDEAST, an organization engaged in international education, training and development activities in the Middle East and North Africa.

While overseas, the Arch Stanton Quartet will perform at the Fifth Cairo International Jazz Festival, the American University in Cairo (AUC), and in Alexandria as part of a jazz diplomacy program.  In addition to AMIDEAST, the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research at AUC are promoting the Arch Stanton Quartet in its jazz diplomacy.

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