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Donald Holzer, Murfreesboro, TN, ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College class of 1956 (plant and soil science), recently donated $20,000 to his alma mater to help modernize the soils laboratory and provide students with more practical, hands-on techniques to evaluate soil properties and enhance soil quality.

When you think of college fraternities, do scenes from the movie Animal House come to mind?

For 30 years, America's view of fraternities (and in some cases, sororities) has been influenced by the toga-wearing, hard-drinking, food-fighting brothers of Delta House.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is one of 22 participating SUNY schools which will host a total of 150 Chinese students whose homes in Sichuan province were devastated by an earthquake in May.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is ready to rock into its second century by presenting a Rusted Root concert as part of Homecoming/Family Weekend, Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. in the Orvis Activities Center.

Mary Anne Blum Condon, Hornell, former associate professor of nursing at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College, will return to campus Aug. 7, 2008, in a new role: she will work half-time in the President's Office serving as government relations coordinator and half-time as director of the BSN Program in the Nursing Department. She will sit on the president's cabinet.

The 15th annual Convocation for New Students at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is slated for Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at 10 a.m. in the Orvis gymnasium celebrating the start of the new academic year.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is ready to kick off another academic year-the first of its second century of operation.

Faculty hit campus on Aug. 18 to gather for President John Anderson's opening remarks.

A mid-summer rain couldn't dampen the spirits of those who gathered at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College recently to dedicate the Professor Eddy Foster Memorial Bench and Garden.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College (ASC) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) are pleased to announce a partnership to establish Pioneer Farm, a model farm to be operated by the college in accordance with Animal Welfare Approved standards. It will focus on teaching grazing systems and animal husbandry practices that enhance land use and animal well-being.

Michelle Green, MPS, RHIA, CMA(AAMA), CPC, FAHIMA (NY), SUNY (State University of New York) Distinguished Teaching Professor, Physical and Life Sciences Department, ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College, has received the 2008 FORE Triumph Educator Award from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).