Farmingdale State College. News Clips. August The Office of Institutional Advancement 2350 Broadhollow Road Farmingdale New York

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18 Printer-friendly article page August 6, 2009 Local players staying together Kevin Devaney Jr. The basketball gym at Court Sports in Elmsford is roughly half the size of a regulation court. It gets quite cozy inside the glass windows, especially when there are 10 college-bound players going 5-on-5. Playing there twice a week has allowed longtime AAU teammates Ryan Riefenhauser, Jason Kulik, Alby Skrelji and Christian Nunez to get well-acquainted with each others' games over the last two years. And it's going to benefit them over the next four. All four local products have committed to play this season at Farmingdale State, a premier Division III program on Long Island. Riefenhauser (Dobbs Ferry), Skrelji (Hastings), Kulik (Blind Brook) and Nunez (White Plains) are all former Section 1 standouts and recent graduates. "All season, we had been talking about what schools we were looking at," Kulik said. "But we never tried to all go to the same school together. It just kind of happened." Farmingdale State coach Erik Smiles initially began recruiting the players at different times. He first spotted Skrelji in September at the Hudson Valley Showcase at Purchase College. Smiles then took in a few practices of Skrelji's AAU team, which was where he discovered Kulik and Riefenhauser. During the season, Smiles watched Nunez and White Plains at the Upstate-Downstate Classic. "We found out later that Nunez played with the other guys in AAU," Smiles said. "It was really all just a coincidence." Smiles followed each player throughout the high school season and began recruiting aggressively after watching them play together in the spring. They'll be four of his six incoming freshman. "We all knew it was a possibility we could go there," Riefenhauser said. "We all had a lot of different options. It just happened that we all ended up at the same school." Farmingdale is coming off its best season in school history. The Rams went 27-4 and 17-1 in the Skyline Conference, had a school-record 20-game winning streak and reached the elite eight of the Division III tournament. Smiles was named conference coach of the year. While star guard Mike Campbell, a first-team all-skyline selection, is back, Farmingdale returns just four players. "There were a lot of opportunities for us to play right away," Riefenhauser said. "What the program has done the last few years is impressive." 1 of 2 9/10/09 3:09 PM 16 Farmingdale State College

19 TheRecord.com - Local - UW students win contest with hydrog [Close] UW students win contest with hydrogen-powered design LUISA D'AMATO, RECORD STAFF WATERLOO University of Waterloo students have won an international contest designing an environmentally friendly building for an American university. The team of chemical engineering and architecture students, supervised by engineering professor Mike Fowler, designed a hydrogen-powered student life building, which holds the cafeteria, bookstore and student government offices, for the State University of New York at Farmingdale, Long Island. It was really satisfying, said graduate engineering student Tim Pasche. It feels great, said Ankit Sharma, also an engineering student on the team. We wanted to take part in a new, green building. The team of seven Waterloo students beat seven challengers, six from the United States and one from Turkey, in the Hydrogen Student Design Contest. The challenge was to design a three-level, hydrogen-powered building of 76,000 square feet with a budget of $28 million. The judges said they were thrilled to see the strategies of the winning entry, which featured the innovative idea of combining several renewable energy sources: wind, solar, and biofuel. The mix of sources is important because, by themselves, wind and solar energy supplies can be irregular. In the UW proposal, about 86 per cent of the electrical power needs of the building is provided by renewable energy. Design details include: *Ten windmills to provide wind power; *Solar panels all over the roof of the building, to capture the power of the sun; *A biomass digester that turns leftover cafeteria food waste like banana peels and bread crusts into energy that can drive a turbine; *Electrical energy produced by these three renewable sources is stored in compressed hydrogen gas and used when needed. Often, that means energy is stored in the summer and used in the winter when more power is required to heat the building. *The building is cooled and heated, not by a traditional furnace, but by a geothermal system. In this system, pipes are run deep into the ground. During the winter, cold fluid is pumped into them, absorbing heat from the surrounding earth. When the fluid returns to the building, the heat is extracted and distributed. In the summer, it s the opposite: Hot water is pumped into the ground, rejects its heat into the earth, and comes back into the building cold. The students were recently honoured at a meeting of the National Hydrogen Association, where they presented their proposal to several hundred researchers and entrepreneurs. Officials of the Farmingdale campus, which helped sponsor the contest, told the winning UW team that they will look at aspects of the design when they decide to build, said contestant Pasche. UW team members included engineering students Chris Rea, Ankit Sharma, Rob Enouy, Adrienne Nelson, Tim Pasche, and Neal Tanaka, and architecture student Andrea Murphy. ldamato@therecord.com Farmingdale State College 17