September 2013 NewsCenter Archive

Smokers and former smokers who survive into old age are at a heightened risk for non-life threatening ailments that can reduce quality of life and expand the need for health services, according to a cohort study led by Benjamin A. Shaw, UAlbany associate professor in the School of Public Health.

University Libraries and the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College have collaborated to offer a new Massive Open Online Course, Metaliteracy MOOC. Metaliteracy will empower learners beyond the search and retrieval of static documents to the collaborative production and sharing of dynamic information online.

Daniel Morales-Armstrong ’10 says his life was transformed as a Bronx youth by the ENLACE program, which provides academic enrichment to high-achieving Latino students. Today, as an assistant director at ENLACE, he gets to make that kind of difference for others — and UAlbany helped make it possible.

UAlbany's Center for Women in Government & Civil Society announces the recipients of the 2013 Women in Public Service Leadership Awards, recognizing outstanding service and achievements by women who have made a substantive difference in effecting significant change, and making the community, the state, and the world a better place.

On Sept. 21, UAlbany commences "Celebrate & Advance," a weeklong series designed to honor our past while advancing plans for our future. The roster of events highlights research and scholarship, academic and campus life, diversity, community engagement and humanitarianism, culminating Sept. 28 with the inauguration of Robert J. Jones.

University at Albany Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Susan D. Phillips is scheduled to appear Thursday before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to offer expert testimony on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has named Theresa Pardo, director of UAlbany's Center for Technology in Government, to the three-person leadership team of Open NY, a six-month-old initative to improve government transparency through technology and enhance citizen engagement.

Alexis Imprescia, B.S. '10, M.A. '11, came to college determined to work someday in the financial center of the world, New York City. Her game plan? Graduate from a top business school in New York State.

The College of Computing & Information is chosen as the convening organization for the New York branch of the National Girls Collaborative Project, whose vision is to bring together organizations throughout the U.S. committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

UAlbany atmospheric scientist Scott Miller is co-principal investigator of a study at the Cranberry Lake Biological Station in the Adirondack Mountains aimed at identifying and quantifying several processes that affect emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and how these can be expected to shift due to climate change.

UAlbany's School of Social Welfare co-hosts a conference on human trafficking on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at Milne Hall on the Downtown Campus. The event, co-hosted by the State Office of Children and Family Services, is designed to raise awareness about human trafficking and increase knowledge among students as well as community members.

Princeton University's Uwe E. Reinhardt, one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics, keynotes “Health Care in the 21st Century: A Community Call to Action,” a free public health care taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the UAlbany Performing Arts Center, sponsored by CDPHP® and UAlbany's School of Public Health.

The University at Albany inaugurated its 19th President, Robert J. Jones, Ph.D., on Sept. 28. Dr. Jones was formally installed at a ceremony in the University's Performing Arts Center. He outlined his vision for UAlbany in an inaugural address before a packed theater of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community and business leaders.