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A conversation with J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, newly appointed director of the Center for Technology in Government and an expert in information management and policy, inter-organizational collaboration, and the use of emergent technologies in the public sector.

This spring, the University at Albany’s School of Criminal Justice launched a new National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA) Video Series. Hosted by James Acker, the co-founder of NDPA and distinguished teaching professor emeritus, the video series features a background history and tour of the National Death Penalty Archive, as well as interviews with death penalty experts from across the country.

When Bruce Miroff first arrived at the University at Albany, it was a bitterly cold February day. A thick layer of clouds overhead gave the city of Albany a bleak backdrop as he stepped off the plane from Austin, Texas into a blanket of snow. However, when he arrived on UAlbany’s campus that day for an interview in 1978, he was greeted with a warm welcome from his future colleagues in Rockefeller College’s Political Science Department. In search of like-minded faculty and supportive senior administrators, as well as a positive social environment to raise his one-year-old son, Miroff saw the potential in making Albany his home. That summer, Miroff moved his family to the Capital Region, and 43 years later, has never regretted it.

Since March 2020, Rockefeller College’s Office of Career Development has had to get creative and reinvent the way it provides services to the students and alumni of Rockefeller College. Moving from in-person career counseling services, information sessions, and networking events into the virtual world, Director of Internships and Career Services Yalitza Negron-Rivera and Undergraduate Internship and Career Coordinator Joan Marso successfully adapted their resources, so students could access and interact with content remotely.

Rockefeller College announces faculty tenure and promotions, faculty leadership positions, new editorial board members, retirements, and select awards and publication news.

Professor Susan Appe’s Spring 2021 Philanthropy and Civil Society graduate students researched, debated, and ultimately, selected and awarded $1,665 each to three deserving nonprofit organizations: The MoonCatcher Project, Homeless and Travelers Aid Society (HATAS), and The Connect Center. 

Rockefeller College’s Thinking Ahead class gives students an opportunity to hear first-hand from professionals working in the field. Drawing on both Rockefeller’s successful alumni network, as well as friends of the College, each class session features a different guest speaker, introducing students to a range of careers that once began in a political science or public administration classroom. The course also provides students an opportunity to practice and fine-tune behaviors linked to success in internships, graduate school, and careers. Thank you to all who took the time to participate in Thinking Ahead during the 2020-21 academic year.

Featured in the Spring 2021 UAlbany Magazine, Jim Malatras, SUNY chancellor and three-time UAlbany alumnus, thinks higher education can learn from jazz.