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Satish K. Tripathi, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, has received an honorary doctor of science degree (D.Sc.) from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad in Allahabad, India. Tripathi received the institute's highest degree on Aug. 12 during its third convocation program, where he addressed students about information technology and the value of education to the individual, as well as society. The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad was established in 1999 by the government of India as a center of excellence in information technology.
Wolfgang Wölck, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, delivered an invited paper, titled "Universals of Multilingualism and Multilingual Education," at the 51st Congress of the Federated Union of European Nationalities in Bautzen, Germany. He also was invited to speak at the European meeting of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, held at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. The title of that paper was "Language Surveys, Maintenance and Planning: Objectives and Results."
Mark Gottdiener, professor of sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, was the only urban academic specialist invited to speak at the "Mountaintop Economic Summit," held earlier this month in Cincinnati. The annual summit, sponsored by the Valley Learning Center of Cincinnati, is a Midwest conference of African American Baptist Churches involved in faith-based social services. Participants included representatives from successful faith-based social service organizations ranging from churches that provide job training for inner city youths, to housing or family assistance, to drug and alcohol treatment programs. Gottdiener's talk was titled "Building Better Cities for the Future." He also presented the keynote address, "Urbanization With and Without Cities," at the inauguration of the new Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Durham, United Kingdom.