Recent news and information about the University at Albany
President Havidán Rodríguez announced the naming of the Massry School Business in honor of the Massry family’s more than three decades of philanthropic support. Their most recent gift creates four endowed professorships; establishes the University’s largest endowed scholarship program; supports students’ transition from classroom to career; and provides unrestricted funds, allowing the school to seize new opportunities and innovate.
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recognized the University at Albany as one of the Top 10 Fulbright Producing Institutions with the highest number of faculty and administrators selected for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in the doctoral institution category. This is the University’s first time receiving this recognition.
The School of Education's online master's in education programs ranked fourth nationally by U.S. News & World Report. This is the eighth consecutive year the school has placed in the top 10 nationally.
Partnering with several two-year colleges, the University has signed landmark dual admission agreements that allow students to be admitted simultaneously to their community colleges and UAlbany. These agreements, enabled by the SUNY Transformation Fund, allow SUNY campuses to strengthen advisement and expand programs to enable students to move seamlessly across campuses to earn their degrees.
Out of more than 1,000 universities from 95 countries, a team of Massry School of Business students finished 18th in the world and the first in UAlbany history to reach the Americas-region finals of the CFA Institute Research Challenge, an annual global competition testing university students' analytical, valuation, report writing and presentation skills as research analysts.
After leading the Great Danes through their most successful season in school history by reaching the 2023 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision semifinals, Head Coach Gattuso was named the inaugural recipient of the Walter Camp Foundation FCS Coach of the Year award.
The New York State Weather Risk Communication Center, a new first-of-its-kind collaboration between UAlbany researchers and state emergency managers was unveiled by Gov. Hochul with weatherman Al Roker on the "Today Show." The center serves as a clearinghouse for critical weather information and will develop new tools to help emergency managers make more informed, time-critical decisions to protect communities.
The University at Albany is the first institution of higher education in the nation to adopt NVIDIA's DGX Cloud AI supercomputing, bolstering the University's $200M campus-wide AI Plus initiative. “The DGX Cloud platform provided through NVIDIA will help us continue to drive advances in healthcare, security and economic competitiveness, while equipping students for roles in the evolving job market,” says Thenkurussi (Kesh) Kesavadas, UAlbany's vice president for research and economic development.
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