November NewsCenter Archive

Schumer at UAlbany: Congress has Unwisely Allowed Perkins Loan Program to Expire
President Jones, in solidarity with area college presidents, stands with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, calling on his Senate colleagues to immediately reauthorize and extend the Federal Perkins Loan program. Jones says program for decades has helped thousands of high need UAlbany students achieve their educational goals.
UAlbany Alum Robert Reid to Highlight Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Mentorship as Keys to Student Success at Bunshaft Lecture
Guyana native Robert Reid '90 says his experience in the computer science program raised his awareness about the value of innovation, entrepreneurship and mentorship in attaining success.
University at Albany and Albany Law School Create Collaborative Academic Offerings in Law, Criminal Justice and History
The University at Albany and Albany Law School have announced two new articulation agreements that will create enhanced academic opportunities for students at both institutions.
The University at Albany Foundation Honors Area Academic Leader Vincent Verdile and Community Leaders William J. Cromie and I. David Swawite at Citizen Laureate Awards, Nov. 11
The University at Albany Foundation will honor the Dean of Albany Medical College, Vincent P. Verdile, M.D.; retired President and CEO of Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan (CDPHP) William J. Cromie, M.D.; and President and COO of Omni Development Company, Inc., I. David Swawite at its 36th Citizen Laureate Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
President Jones is the Region's 'Game Changer' of the Year
Albany Business Review, in bestowing honor, says UAlbany President could have also been the year's "Newsmaker" for shepherding the creation of two new colleges, signing an affiliation with Albany Law School, engineering new academic opportunities for students and novel research and grant prospects for faculty, and boosting the Capital Region.
UAlbany Salutes Veterans with Series of Events

In honor of Veterans Day on Wednesday, the University at Albany will celebrate the men and women who have helped to preserve the safety of the country. Across the region’s only public research University, veteran and non-veteran students, faculty and staff work each day to make our campus welcoming and helpful to veterans from all walks of life.
Glorious Sunday: Two UAlbany Teams Earn NCAA Tournament Berths

One UAlbany sports team extended its sterling tradition and another began a new dramatic chapter, as the UAlbany field hockey and women’s soccer teams win America East titles, advancing both squads to the NCAA tournament. Field hockey beat Maine 2-0 and will play Boston College. Soccer triumphed over top-seed Hartford 2-1, and will face Penn State.
UAlbany Chemist Helps CSIs get to the Root of the Investigation

A new project being launched by UAlbany Associate Professor of Chemistry Rabi Musah aims to improve data collection efforts at crime scenes by reducing the amount of time required by crime scene investigators (CSIs) to examine and confirm abused plant residue.
President Jones and Senator Schumer Concur: Bring Back Perkins Loans
President Jones, in solidarity with area college presidents, stands with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, calling on his Senate colleagues to immediately reauthorize and extend the Federal Perkins Loan program. Jones says program for decades has helped thousands of high need UAlbany students achieve their educational goals.
Blackstone LaunchPad Entrepreneurship Program to Connect Students with Business Community

University at Albany President Robert J. Jones joined Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Blackstone Charitable Foundation President and Chief Operating Officer Tony James in New York City recently to announce the expansion of the Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurship program to the University and four New York State universities.
Albany High Students to Meet Gifted Young-Adult Author through NYSWI
Award-winning Jason Reynolds interacts Tuesday with kids on his engaging and laugh-out-loud fiction for 'teenage boys who don’t like to read' that deals with the trials and tribulations of young adulthood in African-American inner city neighborhoods. He reads later at the NYS Museum.
NCAA Tourneys End for Field Hockey, Women's Soccer; Women's Basketball Opens — Tops West Coast Foe

It was a historic weekend for UAlbany sports teams. The best-ever Div. I season for women’s soccer comes to an end versus Penn State in the NCAA Tourney 1st round, while field hockey bows out to Boston College 2-1.
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100 Days of Achievement
New hires, new initiatives and other recent successes of the School of Criminal Justice were celebrated on Nov. 4, a date designating the first 100 days of Dean William Alex Pridemore’s tenure.
Latest Terrorist Attacks Demonstrate International Reach of ISIS

Coordinated terrorist attacks at six locations throughout Paris have left at least 129 people dead and 352 wounded. On Friday, Rockefeller College and the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity co-host a forum on the attacks from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Lecture Center 3B.
Candlelight Vigil Highlights Observance of Transgender Awareness Week, Nov. 14-20

In observance of Transgender Awareness Week, on Thursday the University honors fallen members of the transgender community by hosting a candlelight vigil, part of this week's series of events. The ceremony, led by UAlbany’s Student Association, pays tribute to those lost in the past year due to anti-trans violence.
Prized by ‘Paris:’ Lydia Davis to be Honored for Lifetime Achievement

Calling hers “a remarkable career,” officials of The Paris Review have named Department of English Professor/Writer-in-Residence and Writers Institute Fellow Lydia Davis the 2016 recipient of the Hadada, the publication’s lifetime achievement award.
Briar-Lawson Honored for Lifetime Achievements

A national social work association honors Katharine Briar-Lawson, former dean of the School of Social Welfare, with the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award. The award was presented at this year’s CSWE Social Work on the Frontiers of Change Conference in Denver, Colo.
UAlbany Aids in Building New York Crime Victims’ Legal Network

Partnering with the NYS Office of Victim Services, the University is helping to create an online tool that will connect crime victims with legal assistance in civil matters. The goal is to provide victims with guidance for dealing with such issues as housing, immigration, family custody, support, and orders of protection.
UAlbany Author: Gary Kleppel Heralds a Farming Revolution

“Most of the food that most Americans eat comes from an industrial system of agriculture that is neither safe, nor ethical, nor sustainable,” says biologist Kleppel. But in The Emergent Agriculture: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy, he details a better way.
Sweeping Away Government’s Paper Crush

Our Center for Technology in Government partners with one of the state’s leading providers of e-government solutions to help small to medium governments dig out from a growing avalanche of digital records and emerge paper-free, bearing greater openness and transparency.
Doctoral Student Turns the Dream of Experiencing Cuba into Reality through UAlbany Study Abroad
As relations between the U.S. and Cuba thaw, American curiosity about the Caribbean nation grows. In the past year, there were more U.S. visitors to Cuba than from any other nation; University at Albany doctoral student and lecturer Nicholas Figueroa was one of them.
Internal Control Hotline: Ensuring an Ethical University Community

The Internal Control Hotline is dedicated to continuing operating practices, reporting relationships, policies and procedures critical to the integrity of the University, with the Office of Audit and Management Services staff just a phone call away.
Bordering Utopia: Sculptures by Brian Tolle, through December 12

The campus hosts a wealth of artistic resources accessible to our community as well as the general public. A prime example is the University Art Museum, which currently stages an exhibition featuring two artists, on display through December 12.
UAlbany Supports President Obama’s American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge

We will be part of the American Campuses Act on Climate Change, a White House-led initiative that promotes a critical role for higher education in raising awareness about climate change and in enacting solutions.
2015 Citizen Laureate Dinner
An audience of nearly 400 attended the 36th Citizen Laureate Dinner, which boosted our student scholarships while honoring Albany Medical College's Vincent Verdile, CDPHP's William Cromie, and Omni Development's I. David Swawite.
Experts Advisory: Star Wars’ Influence Helps Drive Technology, Space Exploration

Whether it's rovers on the surface of Mars mirroring the exploits of the famous droid R2-D2, or the discovery of planets and galaxies far, far away, the influence of Star Wars is felt as much in science as it is in popular culture. UAlbany's faculty experts can help explain.
Freshmen Get Leg Up on Health Career Possibilities through UAlbany-Albany Med Partnership

UAlbany Living-Learning Community freshmen with eyes toward futures in medicine and health-related fields got an enhanced view of their horizons this October and November through a new partnership with Albany Medical Center — CONNECT!
Students Donate Thanksgiving Care Packages to Meals on Wheels Recipients
UAlbany transfer students, led by the University’s Transfer Transition Leaders (TTLs), donated and assembled approximately 100 care packages for the Senior Services of Albany’s Meals on Wheels Program. The group’s care packages will be delivered to local residents on Thanksgiving Day.
#UAlbanyGivingTuesday Cultivates Donors through Philanthropy Challenge
On Dec. 1, The University at Albany Foundation will again look to inspire the University community and beyond to show its support through a 24-hour giving challenge, known as UAlbany Giving Tuesday. This event joins a nationally recognized campaign designed to highlight the benefits of charity and occurs annually on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving.
First Published Paper for Public Health Assistant Professor is a Winner

Feng (Johnson) Qian addressed the previously little-studied issues of clinical profiles, quality of care, and outcomes related to heart failure among Asian-Americans. The result was a best-paper award from an organization dedicated to the health of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.
International Initiative Aims to Help Countries Halt Spread of WMDs

Bryan R. Early sees the development of proactive trade control policies as the key to halting the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Early and his team are collaborating to provide strategic trade control assistance to countries in the Western Balkans and Central Asia, as well as Taiwan, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka.
C-BERT, founded by Kinser and Lane, Honored for Influential Research on International Higher Education
A research team founded and co-directed by Kevin Kinser and Jason Lane to conduct research on cross-border higher education, has been recognized by the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s (ASHE) Council for International Higher Education (CIHE).
Anthropologist Rewarded as She Finds a New Century for a New Spain Catechism

Award-winning essay by Louise Burkhart uproots a vestige of received wisdom and offers theories why pictorial manuscripts were placed in the evangelical toolkit of 16th Century friars — long before their actual creation.
English Department Chair Gives Lecture at University of the West Indies in Jamaica on BBC Radio's Influence on West Indian Literature
Glyne Griffith, well-respected scholar in the field of Caribbean literary and cultural studies, spoke at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, on how a BBC radio program helped launch the literary careers of many West Indian writers from 1943 to 1958.
RNA Researchers: Lighting the Way

Chemists Maksim Royzen and Mehmet Yigit are using fluorescence technologies at The RNA Institute to help find and treat cancer and other diseases. In this video, they discuss how good communication among research collaborators is illuminating their path to success.
Chemist’s Technique Can Identify a Fingerprint as Male or Female
A team of researchers led by UAlbany chemistry professor Jan Halámek has discovered a straightforward concept for identifying whether a culprit is male or female. It’s based on content in fingerprints – specifically amino acids. According to known literature, amino acid levels in the sweat of females are about twice as high as in males.
UAlbany Experts Advisory: Climate Summit 2015

More than 40,000 delegates from 195 countries are descending on Paris this week for the 2015 Climate Change Summit. As host to the most comprehensive atmospheric sciences program in New York State and one of the largest such concentrations in the nation, UAlbany researchers are well-positioned to comment on the annual forum.

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