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Sophia Loukides, BA '22 is this year's Department of Public Administration and Policy Valedictorian. She has centered her life around leadership, activism, and community service.

Meghan Brink, BA '22 is this year's Department of Political Science Valedictorian. She served as editor-in-chief of the Albany Student Press, interned for POLITICO, and will be moving to Washington, D.C. to work for Inside Higher Ed as a policy reporter. 

Hailey Khatchatourian, BA '22 is this year's School of Criminal Justice Valedictorian. She served as an undergraduate student committee member on the Independent Review Committee for the University Police Department, and will be enrolling in George Mason University’s Criminology, Law, and Society Doctoral Program.

Interim Rockefeller College Dean Julie Novkov responded to the news of a leaked draft of a decision on a Mississippi abortion case with an analysis published by The Washington Post.

On Thursday, May 5th, Rockefeller College celebrated its 2022 award winners from the Department of Public Administration & Policy, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Criminal Justice.

On May 20-21, the University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy will host the interdisciplinary “Policing Crisis Conference” in person on UAlbany's Downtown Campus. How governments approach enforcing their laws and policies has been the subject of increasing political and social contention locally, nationally, and internationally. This conference adopts a broad approach for understanding “policing crisis” that includes not only military intervention and law enforcement, but the state’s punitive management of social crises, including poverty, mental illness, and violence. The conference is open to the entire UAlbany campus community free of charge.

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy is sad to announce that Professor Emeritus Joseph F. Zimmerman, Ph.D. passed away on April 16, 2022 at the age of 93. For nearly 50 years, Joseph was a professor of political science at the University at Albany, serving from 1965 until his retirement in 2014.

Eight outstanding UAlbany students will be honored Tuesday with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, which is the highest award SUNY bestows. Chancellor’s Award winners are selected for outstanding achievements in academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service or the arts.