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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.

Jerry Miller was recently appointed to lead UAlbany’s Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, with the task of continuing to adapt the Institute to meet the evolving challenges facing the community at large, including the legalization of marijuana on traffic safety on driving in New York.

The School of Public Health received nearly $3 million in supplemental funding from the CDC to scale up its mathematical modeling work.

With Election Day just weeks away, hear from Albany 2021 Mayoral Candidates Greg Aidala, Alicia Purdy, and Kathy Sheehan during this Zoom forum on Wednesday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. Registration is required to receive the Zoom links.

Andrea Stewart-Cousins will the first guest of this semester's Leading Questions series.