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City University of New York Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez has followed through on increasing faculty diversity. Nine new college presidents – including two Asian Americans, three African Americans and three women – were appointed in the past year. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, CUNY established the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund with $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation. This grew to more than $8 million by the fall and allowed CUNY to distribute emergency grants to more than 10,000 students.
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FLEMINGÂ â Farmers and environmental group worked together on an environmental conservation effort in Fleming Saturday.
Around 20 people, including those with the Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council and the Owasco Watershed Lake Association, trudged through thick soil and mud that morning to plant willow canes along 1,400 feet between Veness Brook and farmer Todd DuMond s crop field.
DuMond, some of his family members and members of the Boy Scouts of America Troop 21 from Owasco were also putting in the willow canes, which are meant to eventually become willow trees.
Dr. Dana Hall, the event s organizer and president of OWLA s board of directors, said before the event that people there would be adding the canes and distributing grass seeds, which together will create a filtration buffer that will filter out the soil, dirt and the material inside the dirt from the field and from upstream before it can reach Owasco Lake.
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Marsh, as seen March 20 from a bridge over Shingle Mill Falls at the Paul Smithâs College Visitor Interpretive Center.
(Enterprise photo â Peter Crowley) The 2021-22 state budget includes funding for the Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smith’s College and the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb, run by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The budget’s Environmental Protection Fund allocates a total of $300,000 to the centers: $120,000 for SUNY ESF and $180,000 for Paul Smith’s College. Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay Lake, announced the news Thursday, saying he had advocated for a funding increase. “These centers not only offer information about the natural history of the Adirondack region, but also provide a safe and educational activity for visitors to the region, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year,” Jones said in a press release. “I’ve long fought for additional fundi
HAMMOND â An expanse of marsh land at the southwest corner of St. Lawrence County has been restored in a private-public partnership to improve fish habitat.
As part of the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, the Blind Bay Wetlands Restoration Project pooled resources from the Thousand Islands Land Trust, Ducks Unlimited, the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Department of Agricultureâs Natural Resource Conservation Service and landowners from the Chippewa Point Road Association.
Along the St. Lawrence River in the town of Hammond, north of the hamlet of Chippewa Bay, Blind Bay is an inlet of the St. Lawrence River, with the marsh complex connecting the Blind Bay to Sand Bay at the northern tip of Chippewa Bay. A healthy marsh connection is crucial, as Chippewa Bay is the largest shallow water coastal ecosystem on the Upper St. Lawrence. The area bo