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The University at Albany welcomed 32 new tenure-track faculty members this fall. The professors will present one-minute, one-slide presentations at the University’s annual Pecha Kucha to be held on Oct. 5. The University also welcomed 48 non-tenure-track faculty.

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and the School of Criminal Justice welcome two new faculty members, including Alvin Christian and Brian Wade. “We are thrilled to welcome these new faculty members, who will enrich our students’ learning by sharing their expertise and real-world experience in public policy and criminal justice,” said Rockefeller College Dean Julie Novkov.

Mila Gascó-Hernandez is an expert in how governments use technology to work better and serve people. She answers today’s question.

With six stops spanning from Mayfield to Canajoharie to Chatham, community members from across the Capital Region have had a chance to learn more about the area's premier research university and anchor institution.

Rockefeller College alum Sarah Krenicki never expected to find joy in data management. “I have gotten so into it,” Krenicki said. “I never thought this would be me.” After studying English literature at Green Mountain College in Vermont, she thought she’d spend her career poring over manuscripts. But she has instead found purpose and passion as the development operations manager at Camphill Village Copake and Camphill Ghent.

It all began with a forgotten book. Shortly before her next class was set to begin, Madeleine Goodman, a first-year Master of International Affairs student, ran back to the Graduate Student Lounge in Milne Hall to grab a textbook she’d left behind. There, she came across Wilson Han, a fellow MIA student from China. “I started speaking Chinese to him the first time, and it didn't register to him that I was speaking Mandarin,” Goodman said. “He'd been in America for [two] years; no non-Chinese person had spoken Mandarin to him [before].”

UAlbany senior Dylan Repertorio was selected for the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute.

As more colleges and universities across the county started to offer cold case programs, Camela Hughes saw an opportunity. “I needed something to frame my class around and so I was either going to do it for just me or I was going to publish it,” said Hughes, who, in 2024, became the director of the University at Albany’s Cold Case Analysis Center (CCAC), which aids investigative agencies and families in the resolution of cases while providing students with a hands-on, project-based learning experience.