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Interdisciplinary Team Suggests Ways to Address Pandemic Telemental Health Disparities
An interdisciplinary team spanning the School of Public Health, the School of Social Welfare and the College of Arts & Sciences found there is a lack of research guiding telemental healthcare for pandemic relief, combined with an inadequate ability for the system to address telemental health disparities.
New HLI fellows, left to right, Elizabeth Vásquez, Carmen Serrano and Giza Lopes.
Three from UAlbany Chosen as 2022 Hispanic Leadership Institute Fellows
Two faculty members and a UAlbany institute's executive director join seven other SUNY faculty and staff from six campuses as newly named 2022 fellows in SUNY's Hispanic Leadership Institute
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Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Celebrated with Organizer and Alum Rosa Clemente
Organizer, producer, journalist, scholar and activist Rosa Clemente will speak as part of the University’s celebration of National Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month.
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Leadership series to host a conversation with New York’s senate majority leader
Andrea Stewart-Cousins will the first guest of this semester's Leading Questions series.
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Clear your Saturday for the Albany Book Festival
The 4th annual Albany Book Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 25, in the Campus Center, with local authors and international best sellers, writers panel discussions, workshops, readings and a local authors marketplace.
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University at Albany Honored for Commitment to Diversity
For the fourth consecutive year, UAlbany has been awarded the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
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NYS Writers Institute Announces Fall 2021 Schedule of Events
The NYS Writers Institute opens its season Thursday and has a full slate of events, most of them in-person for the first since author visits shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Student Mya Darsan crouches next to a fence affixed with a "Do Not Enter" sign, which explains that the bird nests and eggs in that area are a protected species.
5 Questions with Mya Darsan
Junior biology and environmental science student Mya Darsan is dedicating her summer to protecting the endangered piping plovers, a species important in maintaining biodiversity in an ecosystem.