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Professor Mitchel Y. Abolafia’s book “Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis” is a fast-paced, behind-closed-doors account of the Federal Reserve’s decision making during the 2008 financial crisis, showing how Fed policymakers overcame their own assumptions to contain the disaster.

Kimberly Lyons, BA ’02, MPA ’04 is the vice president-senior analyst at Moody's Investors Service. "I love what I represent in this industry. I love when young women reach out to me about opportunities in this industry — as we know, finance is traditionally a male dominated world. I hope that young women can see themselves in me, particularly young Black women who are underrepresented across the board."

Announced by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy’s Center for Policy Research (CPR) has been awarded $150,000 to support food systems research efforts. NYSHealth selected nine organizations from across the State for grant awards totaling more than $1.5 million in support of policies and programs that connect New Yorkers to healthy, affordable food.

With the increased use of AI applications by public services and agencies, researchers at the University at Albany have taken on lead roles in producing a special issue on Artificial Intelligence in Government for Social Science Computer Review.

Students tackled issues of term limits and environmental rights.

On November 3, 2021, the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) officially inducted Rockefeller College Associate Professor Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes into the Academy as a 2021 Fellow. Selection of the Academy’s new Fellows follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to the field of public administration and policy.

As the nation’s workers confronted this loss of employer-sponsored health insurance during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, researchers from UAlbany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and Harvard University set out to examine how this event impacted their support for universal health coverage policies.

Faculty experts will discuss academic and policy issues related to abortion and reproductive rights, changes to the current political climate brought on by the recent Texas abortion laws and subsequent court rulings, and offer transnational and comparative perspectives to inform the conversation.