Where Drones are Headed in 2020, with Michael Leczinsky and Don Berchoff
Michael Leczinsky, a professor of practice in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), and Don Ber...
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Welcome to the UAlbany News Podcast, where we speak with faculty, staff and students on how their research is tackling today’s most challenging problems and issues. This show is hosted and p...
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The Future of Democracy in Bolivia, with Gabriel Hetland
It’s been about a month since Evo Morales resigned as president of Bolivia following weeks of civil protests over disputed results of the co...
How a Traveling Salesman in the 1970s Became a Leading Opponent to the Death Penalty
James Acker, a distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, and Brian Keough, head of the M.E. Grenander Department o...
The UK's General Election: What You Need to Know
Ahead of the UK's General Election this Thursday (on Dec. 12), we brought Timothy Weaver of Rockefeller College to the show to share what's...
The Opportunity Zone Program: What 2019 Has Taught Us, with Timothy Weaver
Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced a bill on Nov. 22 to repeal t he now controversial Opportunity Zone Program. Other politicians, including pres...
The Search for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Off the West Coast, with Kevin Knuth
Kevin Knuth is an associate professor of physics whose research focuses on exoplanets, and quantum mechanics and relativity. He is a former...
Gangster Movies and Their Muses, with Frankie Bailey
Frankie Bailey is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice and a crime novelist. Her research focuses on crime history, mass media and...
The Connections Between Eating Disorders and Mental Health, with Tomoko Udo
Tomoko Udo of the School of Public Health has examined the connections between eating disorders and mental health. Fewer than 30 percent of...
Improving the Parental Experience in the NICU, with Beth DuFault
Parents whose infant is admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit often experience a sense of exclusion from their role as caregivers and s...
How Women's Views on Gender Roles are Changing in Central Asia, with Jildyz Urbaeva
As more countries in Central Asia transition to market economies, women are being left behind in the workforce despite high levels of educat...
The Growing Industry of Homeland Security, with Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild
A photographer and a writer, both who grew up in military families, are collaborating to examine the growth industry of homeland security in...
The Politicization of the Amazon Rainforest Wildfires, with Climatologists Mathias Vuille and Andrei Lapenas
We've all probably read recently of wildfires blistering through what are often called the "lungs of the earth." Reports stating that the Am...
How Educators Can Help Reduce Political Polarization, with Brett Levy
More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults believe that political discourse has become more negative and less respectful, according to a survey cond...
The Changing Role of Business Improvement Districts, with Wonhyung Lee
Wonhyung Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare. Her research looks at the role of business improvement districts amo...
Entrepreneurship Takeover Pt. 2 with Anthony Lombardo and Robert Manasier
For the second part of our series speaking with entrepreneurs, we brought Anthony Lombardo, the president and founder of expex , to the show...
Entrepreneurship Takeover Pt. 1 with Shawn Allan of Lithoz America
For our first of a two-part series speaking with entrepreneurs, we brought Shawn Allan of Lithoz America to the show. The startup, an Innova...
The Blueprint for Achieving 100 Percent Clean Energy, with Richard Perez
Richard Perez, a senior research associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), and his colleagues have developed a blueprint...
Improving Power Outage Prediction and Response, with Jeff Freedman
Jeff Freedman, a research associate at UAlbany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), is working in collaboration with researchers a...
Unpacking AOC's Green New Deal Pt II, with Jim Malatras
For our second episode looking at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, we're speaking with Jim Malatras, the president of SUNY's...
Unpacking AOC's Green New Deal, with Brian Greenhill and Jennifer Dodge
On the first of a two-part series, two political scientists from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy offer insight on Rep....