News Center Archive

Students huddle around a teacher for a group hug near a purple table as an audience looks on.
Torch Award, New Spark Award for First Year Teaching Announced
Each year graduating seniors nominate a professor for the Torch Award, given to faculty who have gone above and beyond the traditional teaching role to change that student’s life in a significant way. New this year is the Spark Award, which recognizes faculty who have helped new students transition to UAlbany.
A woman speaks in front of a projector screen at the UAlbany mathematics conference.
UAlbany Conference Celebrates Women in Mathematics
UAlbany is partnering with the Association for Women in Mathematics to honor the 50-year legacy of the organization as it hosts “Women in Algebra and Combinatorics. Northeast Conference Celebrating the Association for Women in Mathematics: 50 Years and Counting."
CEHC students Jay Parker and Hadley Santos control drones and robotics in the pop up tent at ETEC.
CEHC Students Demonstrate Drones, Robotics Through Emerging Tech Course
The students were featured during the Spring 2023 Falconer Lecture series at ETEC.
side-by-side photos of Michelle Dong and Teresa Mejia
Sophomore, Doctoral Student Among Winners of New State Scholarship for Mental Health Professionals
Two UAlbany students are among the first recipients of a new $4 million state scholarship program designed to support underrepresented students working on degrees in the mental health field.
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.”
A woman wears all black and does a handstand against a white wall.
UAlbany Art Student Awarded $7,000 SUNY Thayer Fellowship
Yang Yang Rawden, a graduate student in UAlbany’s Master of Fine Arts program, was recently awarded a $7,000 Thayer Fellowship from the State University of New York to support her transition from school to pursuing a career in the arts after graduating this spring. The fellowship was awarded based on talent, achievement and potential as a professional artist.
Several students with rakes and a wheelbarrow clean up a landscaped area
UAlbany Celebrates Earth Day With Cleanups, Lectures, Discussions
From neighborhood and campus cleanups to conversations and lectures, there are many ways to participate in Earth Day this year.