News Archives of July 2001

S. Denice Jones has been named director of diversity and affirmative action at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Jones will oversee all of the University’s affirmative action and equal opportunity programs. Jones succeeds Floyd Brown, who was named director of the Office of Diversity Enhancement in Clinical Research. Jones joined Upstate in March 2000 as assistant director [...]

Sarah-Lee Cleveland, CSW, has been named coordinator of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Cleveland joined Upstate Medical University in January 1991 as a medical social worker for University Hospital. Prior to University Hospital, she was director of Enriched Resources for Independent Elderly Inc. Cleveland received her master’s degree in social work with [...]

A foot race held in memory of Paige Yeomans Arnold of Baldwinsville has raised $27,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network. The money will go to benefit the Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders at University Hospital. An additional $3,000 will go to support the Baldwinsville Community Scholarship. More than 500 walkers and runners turned [...]

SUNY Upstate Medical University’s parents’ program and its Report to Community have been honored by the State University of New York’s Council for University Affairs and Development (SUNY CUAD). SUNY Upstate’s Parents Committee and Fund was honored as the best alumni program in the SUNY system. Judges said the program was designed with a clear purpose [...]

Students from H. W. Smith Elementary School in Syracuse have put crayon to paper and designed a collection of bright and colorful bookmarks that are being used to help raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network. Money raised for Children’s Miracle Network stays in the Syracuse community to benefit pediatric services at University and Crouse [...]