‘University at Albany Week’ Airs on WAMC’s The Academic Minute
The Academic Minute airs on 70 NPR-affiliated stations in the United States and Canada and is shared online via Inside Higher Education.
SCJ Study Finds State’s Bail Reform Law Did Not Increase Crime
New York’s bail reform law had a negligible effect on crime, a School of Criminal Justice study found.
UAlbany Professor Awarded Yale Fellowship for Research on Ukrainian Liturgy
Nadia Kizenko, a professor of history and director of the Religious Studies Program at UAlbany, has always been fascinated by questions related to liturgy. This fall, she will have the chance to blend that interest with her expertise in Russian and Ukrainian history, culture and religion as a Fellow of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), where she will study changes in Orthodox liturgy in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union and especially in response to Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
UAlbany Receives $4.8M Award to Research Substance Use, Problem Gambling Among College Students
The University at Albany has been awarded $936,414 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to test and advance best practices that address problem gambling among college students, Congressman Paul Tonko announced.
CEHC Adds New Research Labs in Open Source Intelligence, Smart Device Security
The two new labs add to CEHC's growing research ecosystem.
School of Public Health Researcher Receives Fulbright Amazonia Award
Beth Feingold has been selected as part of the program’s inaugural cohort, which aims to expand collaborative research networks and address shared priorities in the Amazon Basin
UAlbany Professors Join SUNY’s Distinguished Academy
Two University at Albany professors — Thomas Begley of the RNA Institute and Zai Liang of the Departments of Sociology and East Asian Studies — have been promoted to SUNY’s Distinguished Academy, the highest academic rank within the SUNY system, conferred by the State University Board of Trustees.