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Kelly Gorman swings a gold club, teeing off, on a sunny day. The sky is bright blue with light cloud coverage and the grass is bright green and cut low. There are several sand traps in the background, as well as a cart path and trees around the edge of the golf course. She wears a white visor, white sneakers and pink sleeveless top.
5 Questions with Health Promotion Director Kelly Gorman
Health Promotion Director Kelly Gorman discusses her path to the field of health promotion, things to consider when managing stress and her newest hobby: sled hockey.
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$100,000 Grant Gives UAlbany’s Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies a Boost
The work of four PhD students in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Studies (LACS) at the University at Albany is being supported by a new federal grant program aimed at offsetting the impacts of the pandemic and uplifting the humanities.
Three men in suits stand in front of a blue screen with the initials NABE printed several times. The man in the center is being handed a plaque on which his name, Kajal Lahiri, can be read.
Econ Professor Wins Prize for Paper Forecasting Recession
Economics Professor Kajal Lahiri won the prestigious Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award of the National Association of Business Economics for a paper using new prediction models and co-authored by former PhD student Cheng Yang.
A photo of student flagbearers in graduation robes carrying various international flags onto the stage at Commencement.
UAlbany and TheDream.US Offer New Scholarships for New York Dreamers
Immigrant youth in New York now have access to a major new scholarship at the University at Albany thanks to a partnership between UAlbany and TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college and career success program for youth without permanent legal status.
The front of ASRC's Whiteface Mountain Field Station on a cloudy day.
ASRC Celebrates 50 Years of Research at the Whiteface Mountain Field Station
Located at about 5,000 above sea level, the field station has been collecting cloud water samples for chemical monitoring for more than five decades.
CEAS Dean Michele J. Grimm sits at a table outdoors with a laptop in front of her and a coffee mug.
5 Questions with CEAS Dean Michele J. Grimm
In July of this year, the University at Albany named biomedical engineer Michele J. Grimm as dean of UAlbany's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) after a national search. Dean Grimm offers insights on what lies in store for the future at CEAS.
Sun illuminates a sign that reads "WE MAKE MARINES" against a backdrop of blue sky and palm trees in Parris Island, South Carolina.
'On Posthuman War' Traces Expansion of Military Violence Into Ordinary Life
UAlbany English Professor Mike Hill is out with a new book titled, On Posthuman War: Computation and Military Violence, which traces the unseen expansion of military violence in recent decades from traditional battlefronts to the concept of the human being itself. Published by the University of Minnesota Press in August, the book draws on counterinsurgency field manuals, tactical manifestos, data-driven military theory and war archives to explore how human-focused concepts such as identity, culture and cognition have been weaponized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.