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Events

ISSS Presents What to do This Week

Political Commentator Jeff Johnson Keynote at University at Albany's Black History Month Luncheon
ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb. 1, 2012) – Television journalist and political commentator Jeff Johnson will discuss Unclaimed Legacy: Who Will Lead the Next Social Movement? at the University at Albany's 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Black History Month Luncheon at noon on Wednesday, February 8, in the Campus Center Ballroom.

UAlbany to Host Global Game Jam Jan. 27-29
The University at Albany’s College of Computing and Information will host the 4th Annual Global Game Jam Jan. 27-29. The event begins at 4 p.m. Jan. 27 in UAlbany’s Campus Center Room 375 and ends at 6 p.m. Jan. 29 with a presentation of the completed games.

Winter Break in Antarctica
Jan. 9, 2012 -- Some college students fly South over the winter break. University at Albany graduate student Lynsey Cross kept going -- all the way to Antarctica and the South Pole.Cross, a second-year student in UAlbany's Master of Public Health Program, is in Antarctica for five weeks on an 11,000-mile journey with the 109th Stratton Air National Guard Base of Scotia, N.Y., and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

UAlbany Social Welfare Professor Leads Comparative Study of Disaster Recovery Efforts in U.S. Gulf Coast Communities and Haiti
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 14, 2011) – The dynamics of disaster recovery efforts in rural communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Haiti are the focus of a research project led by University at Albany School of Social Welfare Associate Professor Loretta Pyles. The three-year project is funded by the National Science Foundation.

UAlbany's Third World Impact Helps One Person at a Time ALBANY, N.Y. (Dec. 6, 2011) --Third World Impact (TWI), a nationally-recognized community service group of some 110 UAlbany students, has pledged to raise $100,000 in the Spring 2012 semester to build a second school in Uganda, as well as a dormitory to house UAlbany students who will one day volunteer as teachers at the school.

School of Social Welfare Students Take the Ultimate Field Trip: Summer Study Tours of Africa
Albany, N.Y. (Nov. 29, 2011) — For 11 summers, UAlbany SSW students, with faculty, scholars and community practitioners, have traveled to African countries to see what social service delivery means in poorer nations. What they find is challenge, but also a tremendous sense of community and hope.

University at Albany Honors AIDS Visionaries, Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei
ALBANY, N.Y. (November 28, 2011) -- On Thursday, December 1, UAlbany's School of Public Health will host a symposium, "Human Rights and HIV" and honor UAlbany doctoral candidate, Dr. Kamiar Alaei and his brother, Alash.

UAlbany Study: Reduced-Impact Logging Can Maintain Tropical Rainforest’s Critical Role in Carbon and Water Cycling
Albany, N.Y. (November 16, 2011) – Reduced-impact logging (RIL) in an Amazon rainforest generated profits while emitting a small fraction of carbon compared with total forest clearing, a University at Albany study concludes.

University at Albany Journalism Professor, Rosemary Armao, Wins International Investigative Reporting Award
ALBANY, N.Y. (November 3, 2011) -- UAlbany professor of journalism Rosemary Armao and journalists at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) were named winners of the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award.