English News Archive

Alumni Monte Lipman ’86 and Avery Lipman ’88 — the groundbreaking brothers who founded Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company — have established an endowment at UAlbany that will bring programs and performances to the Campus Center’s auditorium, newly renamed the Monte Lipman ’86 and Avery Lipman ’88 Republic Records Music Hall.

UAlbany English Associate Professor Laura Wilder's book, "Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing: Identity, Process and Transfer at a Public University," won the Best Writing Across the Curriculum Monograph Award, given jointly by the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and The WAC Clearinghouse.

Congratulations to English major, Thiri Lin Bo, whose short story, "The Sloth” will be published in the 2026 edition of the Sigma Tau Delta journal, Rectangle.

A new book by UAlbany English Professor Thomas Bass chronicles the Japanese government’s push to resettle more people to the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone amid ongoing safety and environmental concerns, as well as the grassroots network of citizen scientists who have emerged and are working to restore health and life amid radioactivity.

The English Department Research and Writing Conference was a day to celebrate the excellent scholarship and research and the creative work that our students accomplish. Read the article here.

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

UAlbany English Professor Thomas Bass is a featured presenter in the new Netflix documentary, "Turning Point: The Vietnam War." The five-part series by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger was released April 30, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, and examines the war’s consequences and its lasting impacts on American identity.

Originally from Rochester, N.Y., the Adejumos did not plan to go to the same college, but found UAlbany too inviting to pass on.