Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications

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Aubrey Hillman inside of UAlbany's paleoclimate lab inside the ETEC Building on Thursday, June 16, 2022. (photo by Patrick Dodson)

ALBANY, N.Y. (July 25, 2023) — The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.

  • CTG UAlbany was well represented at the Conference on Digital Government Research (dgo.2023), held July 11-14 in Gdańsk, Poland. Graduate Assistant Battulga Buyannemekh presented a paper co-authored by Meghan E. Cook, and CTG UAlbany Director J. Ramon Gil-Garcia presented two papers, co-authored by CTG UAlbany Researcher Aryamala Prasad, Research Director Mila Gascó-Hernández and former CTG UAlbany and Rockefeller College PhD student Qianli Yuan.
  • An article in the American Journal of Public Health, cowritten by Rockefeller College Associate Professor Ashley Fox and her former doctoral student, Yongjin Choi, finds that alerting the public that men who have sex with men are most at risk for mpox increases support for stigmatizing policies, such as the cancellation of LGBTQ+ events. This increased stigmatization could trigger persecution, the authors say.
  • CTG UAlbany Research Director Mila Gascó-Hernandez co-authored a paper on cybersecurity, “Watchful Eye or Blind Man’s Bluff: Local Government’s Contracting for Cybersecurity Services,” which was presented at the Public Management Research Conference at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, on June 29 by PhD student Craig Waltz.
  • Aubrey Hillman, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, was awarded $417,242 from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative research project to create a 50,000-year continuous record of the Indian Summer Monsoon from Loktak Lake in Northeast India.
  • Sujata Murty, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, was awarded $339,771 from the National Science Foundation to research spatio-temporal changes in Red Sea surface hydrology and controls on deep ocean circulation since the 1700s.
  • Charles Shepherdson, professor of English, published several new books in the series he edits at SUNY Press titled, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature. Shepherdson previously served for six years as a member of the board at SUNY Press. View recent publications in the series here.