Study: Incentives to Employers Could Help Past Offenders Land Jobs
Professors Shawn Bushway and Justin Pickett from UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice researched whether offering employers incentives, such as tax credits, would make them more likely to hire those with past convictions.
UAlbany Celebrates Opening of 'The Well' Recreation Center at Colonial Quad
$46.9 million renovation project includes gut-rehab of Paine and Zenger halls incorporating modern suites and sustainable elements, and new wellness center.
UAlbany Welcomes New Great Danes for Fall 2024 Semester
The University at Albany welcomed students back to campus for the start of the Fall 2024 semester, including some 5,430 new Great Danes.
How Students Spent Their UAlbany Summer 2024
Even when classes are not in session, UAlbany students find ways to gain valuable experience through a variety of summer internships, research, volunteer, and other applied learning opportunities.
UAlbany Researcher, Grad Student Team Up to Improve the Resiliency of Puerto Rico’s Power Grid
Graduate student Bianca Méndez Cruz has seen firsthand how vulnerable Puerto Rico’s electrical grid is to extreme weather events.
‘Nowhere Near Done’ — UAlbany Physicists Hail Latest in Dark Matter Hunt
LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, is the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, and its operation is a collaboration among scores of international scientists from 38 institutions, including Associate Professor Cecilia Levy and Associate Professor Matthew Szydagis in UAlbany’s Department of Physics.
UAlbany Launches New Programs in Semiconductor Engineering
The College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering has launched three new graduate certificate programs in semiconductor engineering. The programs are designed to meet the demand for a skilled workforce in the U.S. and global semiconductor industry, a market which is expected to reach $1 trillion annually by the end of the decade.