Study: Incentives Key to Driving Transition to Mobile Payments
University at Albany Assistant Professor of Economics Chun-Yu Ho has recently led a study examining the adoption of mobile payments. Publishing in Management Science, Ho and his colleagues found that consumers are more likely to use mobile payment methods when they receive price incentives for doing so.
Climate, Weather and Emergency Preparedness Researchers Launch New Scholarly Community
A new research and scholarly community is partnering UAlbany’s weather, climate and emergency preparedness scientists to tackle some of the greatest existential threats facing mankind.
ASRC Air Quality Researcher Leads Project to Help Reduce Methane Emissions in New York
The project is supported with $548,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) through its Environmental Research Program.
Study Finds More Than Half of Unemployed Young Men Have Criminal Records
Researchers say the main lesson from the study is that unemployment services need to do more to help people cope with their criminal histories.
Environmental advocate Judith Enck to speak on plastics pollution
Judith Enck, former EPA administrator and founder of Beyond Plastics, will be the first guest in this semester’s Leading Questions, a discussion series where students can meet and learn the essentials of leadership from some of the region’s most influential and engaged leaders in the public and private sectors.
Graduate Students Bring a Living in Languages Journal to Life
A new online, open access, peer-reviewed journal guided by doctoral students and devoted to translation studies is capturing worldwide attention less than a month after its release.
UAlbany Among Best Universities for Social Research
The University at Albany has been recognized as among the best universities for Social Research according to the Higher Education Research and Development Survey released by the National Science Foundation.