College of Arts and Sciences News Archive

School of Public Health senior Michael Jakakas discusses his research on how TikTok challenges are covered by news media, and implications for public health. Jakakas will present his work at the SPH poster symposium at UAlbany Showcase Day on April 30.

At his annual Spring University Address, President Havidán Rodríguez announced the winners of the 2024 President’s Excellence Awards.

Janell Hobson, professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, discussed the symbolism and historical messages behind Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" album cover in an interview with NPR and an article in Ms. magazine.

The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.

The novel technique employs lasers to probe sealed vaccine vials to determine whether therapeutic agents are active or expired.

UAlbany senior John Martinez Soliz is making his first professional acting debut as Oscar in the Lynn Nottage play, Sweat, which began its run at the Capital Repertory Theatre (theREP) in Albany on March 8 and will end this Sunday.

English Professor Eric Keenaghan's new book, The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose, was published in November by Cornell University Press and has been generating buzz among Rukeyser fans and those interested in American leftist, poetry and modernist literary studies.

UAlbany's Department of Mathematics and Statistics gathered on March 14 for discussions on the history and significance of pi — the mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.