Alumni Roundup: June 11, 2013

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

 

SUNY Oneonta alumnus Hal Luftig won a Tony Award for Best Musical of his production, “Kinky Boots”.

Buffalo State College alumnus Scott Baxter, who is the founder and chief executive of SA Baxter, wrote a piece in The New York Times this week titled “That Entrepreneurial Itch” about his experience in business.

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The Hudson Valley Welcomes 3D Printing

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SUNY New Paltz announced in May a new program — and venture — into Digital Design and Fabrication at the College in way of 3D printing. The commercialized aspect, appropriately named Hudson Valley 3D Printing, will continue to seek investment and work directly with the state’s first certificate program in 3D Printing at SUNY New Paltz.

“This is what they do in Silicon Valley. This is what they do in Cambridge,” Laurence Gottlieb, President and CEO for the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation, told YNN.

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Alumni Roundup: April 2, 2013

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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.

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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?

A gift of $5 million was donated by Dr. Barbara Palmer Shineman, a former SUNY Oswego alum and professor emeriti of education; four million dollars came from her husband, Dr. Richard Shineman’s, foundation.  It is the largest donation in school history.

Stash Sporting Goods, Inc. , with founder and SUNY Fredonia aluma Carol Stanley, becomes the first company to be hosted in the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator.

A 2011 SUNY Canton graduate unveiled a new music video to encourage peace and understanding last week before elections begin in his home country, Ghana.

John Anderson, an alumnus of SUNY Geneseo (M.S.), SUNY Brockport (B.S.), and Westchester Community College (A.S.), has been chosen for President of Millersville University in Pennsylvania.

Congratulations to all of this semester’s SUNY graduates as they join the global SUNY alumni network of over 3,000,000!