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Department of Geography and Planning project researchers stand in front of a line of trees in the Academic Podium courtyard on the Uptown Campus.
UAlbany Researchers Awarded $5 Million by U.S. Department of Agriculture to Improve Local Urban Forestry
The project is part of a $1 billion investment from the USDA’s Forest Service to expand access to trees and green spaces in communities and neighborhoods nationwide.
An aerial view of a larger neighborhood in autumn.
UAlbany to Host CNU’s New York State Housing Summit
The New York State Housing Summit will take place on UAlbany’s Uptown Campus, on Jan. 26 and 27, 2024.
A small yellow and gray songbird is perched in a nest made of dry grass in a tree surrounded by bright green leaves.
UAlbany Summer: Bio Major Researches Birds in the Ozarks
UAlbany senior and biology major Sarah Palmieri shares her summer experience conducting ornithological research with the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project
UAlbany PhD student Zhihua Chang presents on his technology at the SUNY Startup Summer School program.
S4 Provides Inspiration for Fledgling Entrepreneurs
UAlbany doctoral student Zhihua Chang participated in his second SUNY Startup Summer School (S4) program, which included four teams from UAlbany among the 2023 class.
A group of seven people stand in an auditorium dressed in business attire. One holds an engraved award and the projector screen behind them reads, "Presidents Awards for Exemplary Public Engagement 2023."
FLIP Program Receives Honorary Award for Distinguished Public Engagement
The Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the Capital District Region Planning Commission(CDRPC) was recognized with the 2023 Honorary Award for Distinguished Public Engagement for their Future Leaders in Planning (FLIP) Program at the President’s Award for Exemplary Public Engagement event on April 25, 2023.
Youqin Huang stands left in a black jacket and patterned scarf while accepting a certificate from UAlbany Provost Carol Kim, right, wearing a green blazer with a gold pin. They are smiling in front of a window with a view of campus buildings and grass.
Youqin Huang selected as Inaugural Fellow of Provost’s Leadership Academy
Congratulations to Professor Huang for being named one of ten Inaugural Fellows of Provost’s Leadership Academy in 2022-2023.
Side by side of Jonathon Little (left) and Rui Li (right)
NSF funding brings industry-integrated education to GIS curriculum
Through a recently-awarded National Science Foundation grant, Associate Professor Rui Li will join principal investigator Associate Professor Jonathon Little of SUNY Monroe Community College in Germany this summer, where the pair will visit two universities of applied sciences. The visit will allow Li and Little to bring geospatial industry-integrated training experiences to their specific GIS curriculum.
Skyline of Albany from across the Hudson River.
The City Authentic: A Q&A with David Banks
Banks, a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Sustainability, shares a preview of his new book "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America.”