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Stephen Berk, the Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust & Jewish Studies, was named the Jewish Educational Resources of New York People’s Choice Israel Hero after a recent public e-mail vote. He and three other select Israel Heroes will be honored May 12 at a Yom Yerushalayim celebration. 

John Garver, chairman of the Geology Department, is quoted in a story in the Feb. 17 Daily Gazette on small earthquakes recorded in Berne, Albany County. Garver referred to the Berne tremors as “intraplate earthquakes.”