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UAlbany joined SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr., SUNY Board of Trustees Chair Merryl H. Tisch and higher education partners from across the Capital Region to celebrate the expansion of ACE and Advancing Success in Associate Pathways (ASAP), two programs designed to help more SUNY students stay on track and graduate on time.

For the past three years, students at the University at Albany have participated in the Great Dane Dialogue, a campus-wide initiative that promotes civil discourse, strengthens civic engagement and helps students develop skills to navigate disagreements with empathy, respect and purpose.

Avinash Lekram graduated with their Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in Maternal and Child Health in 2022. Now as a public health educator at the New York State’s Division of Vaccine Excellence, we asked Lekram to reflect on their time at UAlbany and share their journey into the public health field.

The newest volume of Living in Languages, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published through UAlbany’s Scholars Archive, invites readers to think more broadly about how translation can carry memory, identity, culture and meaning across languages.

As part of their Master of Public Health course, UAlbany’s Nagifa Tabassum and Victoria Buell interned at Refugee & Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE) — a local organization with longstanding ties to UAlbany’s public health programs. We caught up with Tabassum and Buell to learn about their experiences working at RISSE.

UAlbany's Amy Nitza is working with the New York State Office of Victim Services to train victim assistance professionals to deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive psychological first aid after mass casualty events. This "Disaster Mental Health Preparedness Training Program" is funded by a $498,000 grant awarded to UAlbany in fall 2025 and builds upon Governor Hochul’s creation of a Mass Violence Response Council to identify gaps in services and improve local and state response to such events.

The University at Albany announced the expansion of Advancing Completion through Engagement (ACE), building on the program’s successful launch at UAlbany last fall. The expansion will give 150 additional Great Danes access to academic, financial and personal support designed to help them stay on track, overcome barriers and graduate on time.

Bringing in dozens of Capital Region students, the event was part of the UAlbany in the High School program