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The University at Albany’s Michael J. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center will host its 21st Annual Lecture on Thursday, May 4th, 2023, at 4pm in the Standish Room, located on the third floor of the Science Library. The lecture will feature Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad of Harvard University.

The University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy has once again been recognized as a national leader among public affairs colleges by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Public Affairs Schools rankings, Rockefeller College ranks 28th in the nation overall, as well in the top-25 nationally for six public affairs specialties.

On Friday, April 28th, Rockefeller College celebrates its 2023 award winners from the Department of Public Administration & Policy, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Criminal Justice.

Faculty and staff were honored for outstanding work in research, teaching and service to the University.

The latest on University at Albany faculty and staff receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.

In a webinar entitled “The Research Case for Hiring People with Criminal History Records: California in Focus,” Shawn Bushway, professor of Public Administration and Policy, worked to rebut pervasive myths that anyone with a criminal record is inherently riskier than anyone without.

Rockefeller College's Nadine Al Annabi has earned the 2023 Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science. Her paper entitled, "Comparative Analysis of America’s and Germany’s Higher Education Systems," garnered the prize worth $1,000 plus travel expenses to present her paper at the annual conference of the World Social Science Association (WSSA), and a one-year membership to WSSA.

For three decades, the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany (CTG UAlbany) has been working with governments worldwide to transform public services through advances in technology, policy and management.