Thomas J. Galvin (December 30,1932 –February 18,2004) was an American librarian and academic. Galvin held a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University and a master's in library science from Simmons College as well as a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. From 1962 to 1972,he held a series of combined faculty and leadership positions at the graduate school of library and information science at Simmons College,ultimately being named associate dean and professor. He was then made dean of the school of library and information science at the University of Pittsburgh from 1974 to 1985.
Galvin served as president of the American Library Association from 1979 to 1980 and as its executive director from 1985 to 1989. [1]
Galvin became director of the library at the University at Albany in 1989. He was also a professor in the school of information science and policy,where he implemented a doctoral program. He retired in 1999 and was made professor emeritus by the faculty. [2]
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer,Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism schools in the world and the only journalism school in the Ivy League. It offers four graduate degree programs.
The State University of New York at Albany,commonly referred to as the University at Albany,UAlbany or SUNY Albany,is a public research university with campuses in Albany,Rensselaer,and Guilderland,New York. Founded in 1844,it is one of four "university centers" of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. is an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism,which they developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane,he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently,he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" became popular with the use of this phrase by members of the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration.
The Tulane University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tulane University,a private research university in New Orleans,Louisiana. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.
Albany Medical College (AMC) is a private medical school in Albany,New York. It was founded in 1839 by Alden March and James H. Armsby and is one of the oldest medical schools in the nation. The college is part of the Albany Medical Center,which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital. Along with Albany College of Pharmacy,Albany Law School,the Dudley Observatory,and Union College,it is one of the constituent entities of Union University.
The history of Harvard University begins in 1636,when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts,which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university,and changed its name two years later to Cambridge,Massachusetts,in honor of the city in England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Gerald Francis "Jerry" Joyce is president and professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and was previously the director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. He is best known for his work on in vitro evolution,for the discovery of the first DNA enzyme (deoxyribozyme),for his work in discovering potential RNA world ribozymes,and more in general for his work on the origin of life.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor,Puritan clergyman John Harvard,it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence,wealth,and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Arnold Jay Levine,is an American molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry and was the first recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research in 2001 for his discovery of the tumor suppressor protein p53.
Paul Kieran Whelton is an Irish-born American physician and scientist who has contributed to the fields of hypertension and kidney disease epidemiology. He also mentored several public health leaders including the deans of the schools of public health at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. He currently serves as the Show Chwan Health Care System Endowed Chair in Global Public Health and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He is the founding director of the Welch Center for Prevention,Epidemiology,and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Allen Kent was an American information scientist.
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is an American historian of science. She is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. Kohlstedt served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1992 to 1993. Her research interests focus on the history of science in American culture and the demographics of scientific practice in institutions such as museums and educational institutions,including gender participation.
James M. Matarazzo was an American academic and librarian who taught at Simmons University for almost 50 years. He was a national and global leader in the field of special libraries.