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NYS Sen. Catharine M. Young, (R-Olean) visited the
÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College campus recently to announce $33.5 million in funding for a
new student center on the campus. Sen. Young, long a friend of the
college, successfully worked to get the funding put back into the state
appropriations budget after it had been removed.

The ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College (ASC)
Agriculture and Horticulture Department and the Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Steuben County hosted the 39^th annual Finger Lakes Dairy Judging
Contest for Future Farmers of America (FFA) members as well as 4-H members from
local counties at the ASC college farm earlier this month.

The School of
Applied Technology at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is pleased to announce that the
relatively new automotive parts technology curriculum, begun in fall 2007, will
be offered in an online format beginning fall 2008. This new format was
approved at a recent partnership meeting with ASC and UNI-SELECT.

Representatives from ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College (ASC) met
recently with representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension and the
Wyoming County Dairy Institute to create an arrangement whereby ASC and
Cooperative Extension will conduct a pilot program involving a faculty exchange
for the next academic year.

Eight ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College athletes have earned NJCAA Academic All-Americans for excellence in the classroom.  Cal Ayers (Letchworth), Keenan Hall (Monticello), Kaila Smith (÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ Almond), Dustin Falkner (Letchworth), and Gallaway Longenecker (Manheim, PA) were all named Distinguished Academica All-Americans while Kevin Underhill (Somers), Paul Farrell (St. Francis), and Sarah Palmiter (÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ Almond) were named All-American.

Dr. Earl Packard, assistant professor and chair of the Mathematics/Physics Department at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College, was selected to participate this June in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board's AP Examinations in AP Calculus.