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Thirty-two newly hired faculty introduced themselves and their work Monday at a Pecha Kucha, a rapid series of one-minute, one-slide presentations.

UAlbany Students Stopping Trafficking of People (SSTOP) is an organization committed to raising awareness and sharing tools to end human trafficking and aid survivors of the crime, which has 27 million worlwide victims at any given time.

Even when classes are not in session, UAlbany students find ways to gain valuable experience.

The presence of an SRO is associated with a decline in some forms of school violence and an increase in reported firearm offenses, as well as a direct increase in harsh disciplinary actions by school administrators such as suspensions and arrests by police.

Professor, constitutional scholar and interim dean, Novkov was appointed after a national search.

A year-long field experiment that provided public defenders at some initial bail hearings found that having an attorney at these hearings lowered the court's use of cash bail and pretrial detention — without increasing the odds of a defendant not showing up at subsequent hearings.

While earning her doctorate at UAlbany, Rachel Novick, PhD '23 studied intersectional differences in the relationship between employment and desistance from crime. This fall, she will be an assistant professor in the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven.

Earning his BA from the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity and a master's from the School of Criminal Justice, Sean Asaeda interned with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and is now pursuing a career in federal law enforcement.