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Nearly 5,000 students celebrated their graduation from the University at Albany this past weekend during the University’s 182nd commencement festivities, held Thursday, May 14, through Sunday, May 17. Among the graduates were an estimated 3,000 undergraduate students and 1,900 graduate students.

The University at Albany has received the inaugural Top Colleges for Innovation Award from Insight Into Academia magazine for its broad, institution-wide approach to innovation across research, academics, student success, community building, infrastructure and global partnerships.

At UAlbany, game design and music students are breaking down video game music through a new course.

Seventeen members of the University at Albany community were honored at the Alumni Association’s annual Excellence Awards Gala.

At Albany Rural Cemetery, where nearly two centuries of history stretch across 467 acres, two University at Albany students are putting interdisciplinary training into practice — developing mapping tools that help visitors navigate the past.

Senior Amaya Neuwirth came to UAlbany from Orchard Park, N.Y., drawn by the promise of a diverse campus community. Now on the brink of graduating with double majors in Psychology and English, Neuman will leave a proven campus leader, with a clearer sense of self.

A team of University at Albany atmospheric science undergraduates recently traded Albany’s chilly start to spring for weather balloon launches in Puerto Rico’s tropical heat.