The three-week visit was part of a professional development training program in public financial management organized under the Zimbabwe Parliamentary Strengthening Project, implemented through Rockefeller’s Center for Policy Research.

The Academic Minute features a two-and-a-half-minute segment each day, Monday through Friday, from professors at different colleges/universities around the world.

Everyone remembers where they were the morning of September 11, 2001. For Jim Steiner, he was approaching his 30th year with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), living and working in Washington, D.C. as the Director of Transnational Issues, and had gathered his entire staff together for a Tuesday morning meeting in the CIA Headquarters Auditorium. Placing transparencies on an overhead projector at the front of the room, his presentation was suddenly interrupted with news of the catastrophe in Lower Manhattan. The hundreds of officers quickly cleared the room, unsure if CIA Headquarters was next on the terrorists’ target list.

This week Eubanks published a personal essay in The New York Times Magazine about community violence, PTSD and caregiving, all stemming from a brutal attack on her partner in 2015. She is working on a memoir about the experience.

UAlbany hosted its first Inventors Recognition Ceremony at ETEC, honoring faculty, students and staff who have submitted their first invention disclosure, their first patent application, or have been granted their first patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2019 through 2022.