December 2013 NewsCenter Archive
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UAlbany Helps Capital Region Community Navigate Affordable Care Act
UAlbany is playing an integral role in helping businesses, underserved communities, and individuals navigate the Affordable Care Act. Students, staff and faculty are providing critical training, enrolling individuals and families, and hosting educational forums for regional non-profit organizations and the community-at-large. -
Shopping Behaviors, Stress and New Year Resolutions - Timely Topics Addressed by UAlbany Experts
It's holiday season in the United States, which sees millions of Americans flocking to stores and making plans to visit relatives. UAlbany's faculty experts cover a wide array of seasonal issues, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping habits, holiday stress, and the struggles of maintaining New Year's resolutions. -
University at Albany Celebrates Winter Commencement, Dec. 8
More than 1,000 students will earn their degrees from the University at Albany at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8, during winter commencement at UAlbany’s SEFCU Arena. UAlbany President Robert J. Jones will deliver the ceremony’s keynote address and be joined by New York Senator Charles E. Schumer, who will also offer remarks.
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UAlbany Inaugurates Region’s First Confucius Institute
The University announces the inauguration of a Confucius Institute, an educational center designed to promote Chinese language and culture to UAlbany students and the region. The Institute will also help facilitate student study-abroad scholarships and funding for faculty-exchange activities.
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Ready to Graduate, Public Health Students Return from Peace Corps Assignments in Africa and South America
The first three students in the School of Public Health's Peace Corps Master's International (MI) Program have returned to UAlbany after having completed their two-year volunteer assignments in Ethiopia, Togo, and Ecuador. -
UAlbany's Andrea Robayo Graduates with a Passion for Helping Refugees
During her years at UAlbany, communication major Andrea Robayo developed a passion for helping refugees. Robayo herself was 10 when she and her mother left Colombia, so she understands the challenges of starting over in a new country.
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Greg Gattuso Named UAlbany Head Football Coach
Greg Gattuso, a former head coach at Duquesne University and assistant head coach at both Pittsburgh and Maryland, is named UAlbany's head football coach. The 51-year-old Gattuso becomes only the second football helmsman in the program’s 41-varsity season history, taking the reins from program architect Bob Ford.
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Jeffrey Castillo Found Guidance and Connections at UAlbany
The people at a university make the difference, says Jeffrey Castillo ’06, a business administration major who by 2012 had become a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. “You go in as a freshman with only a vague idea of what you want to do with the rest of your life," he says, "but UAlbany has a great faculty and staff."
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UAlbany Criminal Justice Study Grapples with Guilty Pleas
University at Albany criminal justice researchers will head up a National Science Foundation-funded network to probe the processes and reasoning behind guilty pleas in the criminal justice system. -
Global Project Receives Strong Federal Support to Stem WMD Proliferation through Enhanced Trade Controls
The Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft, directed by political scientist Bryan Early, receives $600,000 in additional U.S. State Department funding in 2013 to aid countries seeking more stringent controls on their international commerce related to conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction.
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UAlbany Provost Appointed to Second Term, Named Chair of National Advisory Committee
UAlbany Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Susan D. Phillips has been appointed to a second term on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI). Phillips was also elected chair of the committee at NACIQI’s December 12 meeting in Washington, D.C. -
University at Albany Hosts Capital Region Master Teachers
UAlbany has been selected as one of ten SUNY campuses across the state to host the New York State Master Teacher Program. The program seeks to identify, reward, and support exemplary teachers in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics subjects. -
UAlbany Social Welfare Students Help the Underserved Navigate Affordable Care Act Enrollment Process
University at Albany graduate student Madeline Knopfler is well versed in the challenges confronting individuals who are in need of health insurance, or are seeking to provide health care coverage for their families. -
Couple Met Each Other and Future Careers at UAlbany
UAlbany afforded Jason and Emily Behnke unconventional routes to successful careers in the scientific research field. It also opened pathways to friendship and marriage.
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Great Danes Give Back
Not only at the holidays but throughout the year, UAlbany staff, faculty, student and alumni reach out to the community to serve those in need.
