News Archive

Fifty-two UAlbany employees are being honored this year for their longtime service, and Distinguished Professor Kajal Lahiri of Economics, with the longest term of all, lists the many reasons he stayed.

The dean of the University at Albany School of Public Health has been tapped to serve on a temporary arrangement as a policy analyst for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Bridget Aduasare can say from experience how much the Educational Opportunity Program can transform the lives of students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

Princeton Review, Sierra Club include UAlbany on their green schools lists.

As the nation’s workers confronted this loss of employer-sponsored health insurance during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, researchers from UAlbany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and Harvard University set out to examine how this event impacted their support for universal health coverage policies.

Next year, UAlbany researchers will partner with ones from three other institutions on a three-year, NSF-funded $3.6 million project, that seeks to better understand and address the wintry predictive challenge.

Three studies led by a School of Public Health PhD student found that a group of chemicals found in many plastic products are harmful to women who are pregnant and to couples planning a pregnancy – yet the products are often not on the list of things to be avoided.

UAlbany researcher Rixiang Huang, an assistant professor of environmental and sustainable engineering, is undertaking a new project that is designed to reveal how charcoal from fires decomposes over time.

Project will demonstrate how NYS Mesonet measurements, including snow depth, snowfall rates, freezing rain and precipitation type, can improve prediction lead times and local winter weather operations.

A one-mile section of the BRT will transform Alumni Drive into an attractive and festive avenue that knits the campus landscape and major pedestrian pathways.

Organizer, producer, journalist, scholar and activist Rosa Clemente will speak as part of the University’s celebration of National Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month.

Jerry Miller was recently appointed to lead UAlbany’s Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, with the task of continuing to adapt the Institute to meet the evolving challenges facing the community at large, including the legalization of marijuana on traffic safety on driving in New York.