School of Criminal Justice Associate Professor Theodore Wilson II was awarded $45,364 by the Russell Sage Foundation to study why incarcerated individuals accept plea deals. Working with Christi Metcalfe of the University of South Carolina, Wilson will explore how guilt, trust in one's attorney and the perceived likelihood of conviction influence these decisions.

Colleges of Arts and Sciences Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor Jeanette Altarriba has been selected to deliver the keynote address in New Orleans at the November 2027 conference of the Psyhonomic Society, the preeminent society for cognitive psychologists engaged in the experimental study of cognition.

Haoyu Wang and Zheng Wu were awarded $677,967 from the National Science Foundation for a project that will develop physics-informed AI tools capable of representing how the stratosphere influences surface weather, with the goal of extending advance warning for extreme events like winter cold snaps and heavy snowfall.