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EspañolUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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'University at Albany, SUNY', is a public university located in the capital of New York state, and is the senior campus of the SUNY system. The University was founded in 1844 in Albany, New York, and has three campuses; the Uptown and Downtown Campuses in the city of Albany and one campus in the town of East Greenbush, just east of Albany. The officially designated informal name is "'UAlbany'", but the university is sometimes referred to by locals, outsiders, oldtimers and alumni as '''Albany''', '''Albany State''', '''SUNY Albany''', '''SUNY A.''' or just plain '''SUNY'''. It began as a normal school in the mid-19th century and evolved into a State University Center by the middle of the 20th. In 2001, it was designated a State Center of Excellence for nanotechnology and subsequently has seen a large investment from both the State and from industry. The University hosts the only School of Public Health in SUNY (in conjunction with Wadsworth labs), two SUNY-wide research centers - the Atmospheric Science Research Center, and the Center for International Studies and World Affairs. UAlbany is one of four SUNY university centers.
The university comprises 10 colleges and schools:
The College of Arts and Sciences, comprising 25 departments and 59 programs, forms the largest academic division at the university.
Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences include Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Classics, Communication, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Geography and Planning, History, Judaic Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre, and Women's Studies.
The College of Computing and Information at the University at Albany, State University of New York, was created in 2005.
It is composed of three founding faculties:
★ The Department of Information Studies (previously known as the School of Information Science and Policy), which offers programs in library and information science, including an American Library Association-accredited Master-level program suitable for later work as a librarian.
★ The Department of Computer Science.
★ The Department of Informatics (the home of campus-wide inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Program in Information Science and the IT Commons).
The College of Computing and Information commits itself to supporting world-class, discipline-based research and educational programs related to computing and information.
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, named for former U.S. Vice President and Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller, was created in 1981 and is home to the university's departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Policy.
Rockefeller College offers degree programs that range from bachelor's level study in political science and public policy, to master's programs in political science, public administration and public policy, to doctorates in political science and public administration. Research centers within the college include the Center for Legislative Development, the Center for Policy Research, the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, and the Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research.
In ''U.S. News and World Report's ''America's Best Graduate Schools 2005 Edition'', Rockefeller College was ranked 10th overall, 4th in "Information technology & management", and 6th in "Public administration & management" out of 253 schools of public affairs.
The School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
The School Of Business for Graduate School at Suny Albany focuses more on the GMAT Score rather than the students' credentials. Therefore, a stellar G.P.A will not help you as much as a High GMAT score.
The School of Business has a 3.0 Grade Point Average requirement and numerous prerequisite courses. Undergraduates in the School of Business graduate with a Bachelor of Science in either business administration or accounting. Business administration majors concentrate in one of four fields, finance, marketing, information technology management (ITM, formerly management systems information science, or, MSIS), or management. Students are also permitted to combine concentrations as to further expand their knowledge and education. Recently there has been a new and excellent Financial Analyst program that was created. Both accounting and business administration majors are 60-credit majors, as opposed to the normal 40-credit majors in nearly every other field.
Due to the extremely diverse nature of this school, there are numerous extracurricular activities that align themselves with the school of business. There are a number of business groups and business fraternities that do many interesting and remarkable events around campus. One such group is the international business fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi. Their Zeta Psi chapter organizes, amongst other events, the annual career fair. Numerous companies and recruiters come to this event every year in order to meet with the students of the school of business.
The School of Business also offers master's and doctoral level courses of study.
The current dean of the School of Business is Paul A. Leonard, Ph.D., who was formerly a professor of finance with a long history in bond and bond analysis, and municipal lending.
The School of Criminal Justice was formed in 1966, and covers all aspects of criminal justice.
The school was ranked #2 in the nation by ''U.S. News and World Report''.
The School of Education is home to the departments of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Educational and Counseling Psychology, Educational Theory and Practice, and Reading.
Created in 2003, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (previously the School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering) is the first college in the world devoted exclusively to nanoscale science and engineering. By being completely independent from traditional disciplines, the college is able to create its curriculum from the ground up instead of relabeling traditional courses as "nano." In addition, CNSE is a worldwide melting pot of industry and academia. Not only are the students from around the world, but major companies in the various nanotechnology industries have offices and labs at the CNSE facilities- IBM, Infineon, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), GE (General Electric), Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, SEMATECH, DuPont, Kodak, DARPA, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, M&W Zander, Philips, NASA, and Motorola. Dubbed Albany Nanotech, this consortium is unlike anywhere else in the world. It also has the only 300-mm wafer processing line in the academic world. The University at Albany, these industry partners, and the State of New York have invested more than $3.5 billion in this 450,000-square-foot facility. Besides working alongside researchers from these notable labs, and using state of the industry tools, CNSE students not only get faculty with real world experience (many who have worked at these same labs), but they also enjoy a high placement rate in top-notch research labs.
The School of Public Health was created in 1985 and is the only school of public health in the State University of New York. The school offers programs in biomedical sciences, biometry and statistics, environmental health and toxicology, epidemiology, and health policy, management, and behavior. It is accredited through the Council on Education for Public Health. Through a partnership with the New York State Department of Health, the School offers a research oriented approach for faculty, and valuable professional experiences for students. Degrees offered include MPH, MS, DrPH and PhD in four academic departments.
Research interests of over 200 doctoral-level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.
The School of Social Welfare was created in 1965, and offers programs in Social Work.
The University hosts two University-wide research centers:
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) is the State University of New York Center for research in the atmospheric sciences. The center was established on February 16, 1961, by the Board of Trustees as a university-wide center for the specific purpose to promote and encourage programs in basic and applied sciences especially as they related to the atmospheric environment.
The Center performs research to study the physical and chemical nature of the atmosphere and its implications to the environment. Current research areas include boundary layers, solar radiation, radiative transfer, atmospheric chemistry, aerosol physics, air quality, solar energy, cloud physics, climate systems, and air quality monitoring. In addition the center has a large "jungle research group" exploring atmosphere and biosphere relationships in Amazonia, the Alaskan Tundra, the Canadian Boreal Forest, and the eastern U.S..
In 2006,University at Albany was ranked among the top 300 universities in the world and 45th among world universities in Social Sciences by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jaio Tong University, Shanghai, China ( SJSU) a participant in the International Expert Group Created to Improve Higher Education Rankings.
According to ''US News and World Report'', UAlbany is a tier 3 national university; Tiers 1 and 2 are ranked according regarding the school as a whole and tier 3 institutions are otherwise unranked. Several individual programs, however (particularly graduate programs) are ranked among the top in the country.
The University ranks 77th nationally in NSF funded research, behind Carnegie Mellon at #76.[1] The University has no medical school, which makes the relatively high NSF funded profile noteworthy. When medical and engineering schools (Albany possesses neither) are excluded from NSF funded research national rankings, it is ranked 38th nationally.
''Chronicles of Higher Education'' ranks the doctoral programs in criminal justice, educational administration, and social welfare in their "Top 10" list nationally in their respective disciplines.
According to ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', it is a Public Ivy.[2]
Albany's stated mission is to move to become "most selective" university, and has engaged in a growth strategy that supports this objective.[3]
Other Top 25 Program Rankings and sources:
Criminal Justice - #2 (''US News'' 2006)
Educational Administration - #7 (''Academic Analytics'' 2006)
Social Welfare - #5 (''Academic Analytics'' 2006)
Public Policy - #10 (''US News'' 2005)
Information Technology and Management - #4 (''US News'' 2006)
Educational and Counseling Psychology - #13 (''US News'' 2006)
Africana Studies - #3 (''Black Issues in Higher Education'' July 2004)
Public Administration and Management - #6 (''US News'' 2006)
Public Finance and Budgeting - #9 (''US News'' 2006)
Public Policy Analysis - #25 (''US News'' 2006)
Library Science - #15 (''US News'' 2006)
Nanoscience and Engineering - #1 overall, ahead of Cornell (#2), Michigan-Ann Arbor (#3), Rice (#4), University of Pennsylvania (#5), and Virginia (#6).[4]
Atmospheric Sciences: ranked in the first quartile of NSF rankings in total federal R&D expenditures.
The main (Uptown) campus, located at 1400 Washington Ave., is modernist in style, designed by world renowned architect Edward Durell Stone and based on a symmetrical plan. Since its opening in the mid 1960's, the Uptown campus has evoked strong responses. As University at Albany Professor of English and art critic Thomson Littlefield noted in the Times Union in 1967: “The place is so huge, so imposing, so beset with illusion, so far out of this world, that people are blinded to the actual, at least until they have looked assiduously for a very long while. A glance at the University is like a glance at the sun.” As recently as September 2006, a UAlbany student defended his campus in a letter to the editor of the Times Union. “The entire campus is a work of art – and I am not the artsy type,” he wrote in response to the opinion that the campus is unsightly.
The campus exemplifies the signature style Edward Durell Stone used in his major projects between 1954 and 1970, including the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India; the Hotel Phoenicia in Beirut, Lebanon; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C.; 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, NYC; and the Aon Center, originally the Standard Oil Building, in Chicago.
The academic buildings are located on the monolithic "Podium", a huge rectangular structure in the center of campus. The podium on which Stone clustered the academic buildings brought the disciplines together in a unified way, giving them all the same architecture and connecting them through stairways and walkways. Living and learning went hand in hand, with dormitories built within walking distance of classroom spaces. In the original design, automobiles were relegated to the perimeter of the campus. The Podium's architectural centerpiece is the "Carillon", a tall, cylindrical carillon that electronically emulates the sound of the original 15th century mechanical design. By employing various musical patterns, it is used to signal the beginning of hourly scheduled classes. At the base of the carillon is a large fountain, which is perhaps the most well recognized and appreciated feature of the campus.
It is a common misbelief that the uptown campus was originally designed and intended as a university in a warm climate such as Arizona. This is untrue as Edward Durrel Stone was commissioned by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller himself to design a campus specifically for Albany. In fact, the concrete canopies that connect all of the buildings on the podium were designed to protect students from the inclement Albany winters.
On the west end of the Uptown Campus is the Albany Nanotech facility. The 450,000 square foot, $3.5 billion facility is comprised of three buildings. NanoFab 200, also known as CESTM (Center for Environmental Science and Technology Management) houses a majority of the metrology or characterization tools, the National Weather Service (NWS), the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), the 200mm clean rooms, and various labs and offices. NanoFab 300 North houses the only 300mm processing line in the academic world, as well as a massive cleanroom for industrial R&D. NanoFab 300 South houses the academic offices of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, classrooms, a caferteria, offices, labs, and an additional cleanroom in the annex (NanoFab 300X). A fourth building (NanoFab 300 East) is set to open in 2008 and will hold additional lab, office, and cleanroom space.
The Uptown Campus is home to six of the university's seven dormitory complexes. Four of these—Indian Quad, Dutch Quad, Colonial Quad, and State Quad—sit at the Podium's corners; each consists of eight three-story low-rise buildings encircling a 22-story tower with a total capacity of 1,200 students each. The four quads serve as a chronological timeline of New York State history, beginning with Indian Quad, moving clockwise to Dutch, then Colonial, and finally, State. The other two, Freedom Quad and Empire Commons, are reserved for juniors, seniors, graduate students (Empire only), or married couples; these are "apartment-style" and include kitchens, furnished living rooms, and on Empire: washers, dryers, dishwashers, single bedrooms, central air conditioning. Graduate students living on Empire have the previously mentioned amenities along with private bathrooms (one in each bedroom).
The Uptown Campus is also home to two of the university's three libraries, the University Library and the Science Library.
The Downtown Campus, located at 135 Western Ave., is the site of the original New York State College for Teachers. Construction began in 1909 on the first three buildings: Draper, Husted and Hawley halls, after the previous location on Willett Street burned down. Later additions to the campus were Richardson Hall, Page Hall and The Milne School (all in 1929), along with additions to Draper and Richardson halls (both in the 1960s).
The Downtown Campus is home to the University's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, School of Criminal Justice, College of Computing and Information, and School of Social Welfare. The Downtown Campus is also home to one of the University's three libraries, the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library, located in Hawley Hall.
The Downtown Campus is located just one mile from the New York State Capitol building and Empire State Plaza.
Alumni Quad, one of the university's seven dormitory complexes, is a short distance away from the Downtown Campus. The quad is usually reserved for transfer students and foreign exchange students (who are placed in Sayles Hall). Alumni Quad was named to commemorate the college's alumni who initiated a fundraising campaign to construct the residence halls.
The East Campus, located in East Greenbush, is home to the School of Public Health, and the new Cancer Research Center, dubbed "Gen
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The Campus Center is the community center of the University at Albany, serving students, faculty, professional staff, alumni, and guests. Traditionally considered the "hearthstone" or "living room" of the campus, the Campus Center provides services and conveniences that community members need in their daily life. These include lounging areas and famous chain eateries. The Campus Center seeks to create an environment for getting to know and understand others through formal and informal interactions.
Facility Reservations:
The Campus Center Facilities & Operations function coordinates and manages the eight meeting rooms and Ballroom that comprise the conference portion of this multi-faceted building. During the academic year, the Campus Center’s meeting rooms host over 9,000 persons/month for meetings and functions within the building’s confines. Assuring that each is afforded of pleasant, comfortable accommodations is a goal of this office.
The University was chartered in 1844 as a normal school, charged with the task of training teachers as part of the Common School movement. The teachers' college joined with dozens of other state-run institutions of higher learning across New York with the founding of the State University of New York system in 1948. In 1962 the University at Albany was officially designated a doctoral-degree granting University Center by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. The same year, Rockefeller broke ground for the current main campus of the University on the former site of the Albany Country Club.
★ David Perkins Page (1844 – 1848)
★ George R. Perkins (1848 – 1852)
★ Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D. (1852 – 1856)
★ David Cochran, A.M., Ph.D. (1856 – 1864)
★ Oliver Avery (1864 – 1867)
★ Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D. (1867)—Acting
★ Joseph Alden, D.D., LL.D. (1867 – 1882) —First to be called "President"
★ Edward P. Waterbury, A.M., Ph.D. (1882 – 1889)
★ Albert N. Husted (1889)—Acting
★ William J. Milne, M.S., Ph.D., LL.D. (1889 – 1914)
★ Leonard Blue (1914 – 1915) —Acting
★ Abram Roy Brubacher, Ph.D. (1915 – 1939)
★ John Sayles, Pd.B. (1939 – 1947) —Acting
★ Milton Nelson, Ph.D. (1947 – 1949) —Acting
★ Evan R. Collins (1949 – 1969)
★ Allan A. Kuusisto, Ph.D. (1969 – 1970) —Acting
★ Louis T. Benezet Ph.D. (1970 – 1975)
★ Emmett B. Fields, Ph.D. (1975 – 1977)
★ Vincent O'Leary (1977 – 1990)
★ Judith Ramaley, Ph.D. (1990)—Acting
★ H. Patrick Swygert, J.D. (1990 – 1995)
★ Karen R. Hitchcock (1996 – 2003)
★ Carlos Santiago (2004)—Acting
★ John R. Ryan (2004 – 2005) —Acting
★ Kermit L. Hall, Ph.D. (2005 – 2006)
★ Susan Herbst (2006 – ) —Acting, Officer-in-Charge
★ Manuel Alvar (deceased), head of the Spanish Royal Academy, world renowned for his linguistic atlases of Spain and Spanish South America.
★ Victor Asal, political science. Expert on terrorism and director of the Certificate Program in Public Security.
★ Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished University Professor of English & American Literature (2004), Distinguished Service Professor(1992), Collins Fellow, Grand Marshal of the University. President, The Association for Documentary Editing. General Editor, ''The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson'', Harvard; has edited, co-edited (primarily with Joel Myerson), and authored over 20 volumes on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Michael Wigglesworth, and Cotton Mather.
★ Don Byrd, poet and literary critic. His works include his poetry collection ''Technics of Travel'', the book-length poems ''The Great Dimestore Centennial'' and ''Aesop's Garden'', an analysis of Charles Olson's Maximus, and his masterpiece of literary analysis ''The Poetics of the Common Knowledge''.
★ Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish Novelist (1910-1999). Distinguished Professor at the university from 1966 to 1970.
★ Gordon G. Gallup, evolutionary psychologist; developed the mirror test.
★ Thomas Galvin, (deceased), founding director of the Ph.D. in Information Studies or Informatics. He was a former director of the American Library Association, and an authority on information science.
★ John S. Justeson, linguistic anthropologist responsible for the decipherment of the Epi-Olmec script.
★ Leonard Kastle director of The Honeymoon Killers and notable American opera composer Of ''Deseret'', ''The Pariahs'' and others
★ William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor. Kennedy taught creative writing and journalism as an instructor from 1974 to 1982 at the University. In 1983, Kennedy was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Part of that award went to the institution of Kennedy's choice, which was UAlbany. The University made a commitment to match the funds he donated—$15,000 for five years (each), to create a writers' institute. The following year, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo signed into law the legislation creating the New York State Writers Institute.
★ Paul Kurtz, philosopher and director of the Center For Inquiry
★ Michael J. Malbin, political science. Expert on campaign finance, and former speech writer to Richard B. Cheney.
★ Jon Mandle, philosopher. Author of several books. Chair of philosophy department.
★ Ron McClamrock, philosopher. Works at the intersection of phenomenology and psychology.
★ Paul Pimsleur (deceased), linguist and educator. Author of ''Pimsleur Language Series''. Pimsleur's research focused on the language acquisition process.
★ Vincent Schaefer (deceased), founder and longtime director of the Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC).
★ Richard E. Stearns (emeritus), Turing award winner for computational complexity theory.
★ Bonnie Steinbock, philosopher. Noted expert on reproductive ethics. Former chair of philosophy department.
★ Omar J. Vázquez, advanced doctoral erudition; author of ''Classical Western Canon'' and several texts.
★ Bernard Vonnegut (deceased), atmospheric scientist renowned for his expertise in the physics of lightning. As a colleague of Vincent Schaefer at General Electric in 1946, Vonnegut discovered how to seed clouds with silver iodide shortly after Schaefer discovered the first successful method of cloud seeding, with dry ice. Older brother of author Kurt Vonnegut.
★ Mike Arcuri (B.A. 1981, history and economics), former District Attorney for Oneida County, New York and congressional representative for New York's 24th congressional district
★ Catherine Bertini (1971), former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
★ Tom Clarke (1973), president of new business ventures for Nike, Inc.
★ Randy Cohen (B.A., music 1971), former writer for Late Night with David Letterman, currently writes 'The Ethicist' column for ''The New York Times Magazine'' and regularly answers ethical questions from listeners of "All Things Considered"
★ Ellen Datlow (1971) Former editor of Omni magazine and currently an award-winning speculative fiction editor and anthologist
★ Alan M. Davis, (B.S. 1970) IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur
★ Jamie Gold (1991), American television producer and 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
★ Harold Gould (1947), actor ("The Sting", "Rhoda", "Golden Girls")
★ Stephen Adly Guirgis, playwright (''Jesus Hopped the A Train'', ''Our Lady of 121st Street'')
★ Lawrence Korb (PhD, 1969) Council on Foreign Relations and Center for American Progress, Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-85)
★ John Kourakos (B.S. 1971), president of Tommy Jeans
★ Brian Lehrer (B.A. 1973), radio talk show host.
★ Phil Lewis (B.A. 1986), sportscasting great
★ Gregory Maguire, author of the books ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'' and ''Wicked'' (which became a Broadway musical)
★ John M. McHugh, Congressman from New York's 23rd congressional district.
★ Harvey Milk (1951), gay rights figure, former San Francisco city supervisor
★ Susan Molinari (B.A. 1980, M.A. 1982), former congresswoman
★ John Ortiz, actor (The Job (TV series), Carlito's Way, Miami Vice (film), American Gangster)
★ Joseph Persico (B.A. 1952 English and political science), biographer and historian
★ Celal Sengor, (B.S., 1982) Turkish geologist, foreign member of the American Philosophical Society.
★ Josh Shaw (B.A. finance and marketing 1997), entrepreneur and participant on "The Apprentice"
★ Kate Stoneman, Class of 1866, also a longtime faculty member, the first woman admitted to the New York State Bar in 1886, after she helped lobby for the law that allowed women to be admitted to the Bar. She later opened Albany Law School to women lawyers.
★ Norman E. Snyder, co-founder of SoBe
★ Louis Tobacco, Member of the New York State Assembly, representing Staten Island's 62nd District.
★ Gerhard Weinberg (B.A. 1948), American diplomatic and military historian.
★ Richard C. Wesley (1971), federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
★ D.B. Woodside, actor ("Buffy, the Vampire Slayer","24")
★ Bob Ryan, (B.S. 1967, atmospheric science), lead weatherman, WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.)
★ Bouna Coundoul, goalkeeper for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer
★ Rashad Barksdale, cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL
All athletics are run by the University at Albany Department of Athletics and Recreation. After the 1972 NCAA restructuring, the university competed in Division III athletics till the 1995-96 school year. The university would remain in Division II athletics until 1999 and currently has 19 varsity sports (8 men, 11 women) competing at the Division I level. Albany athletics however dates back to the late 1890s.
The school's sports teams are called the Great Danes and participates in Division I sports in the America East Conference since 2001. Football participates in Division I-AA as an associate member of the Northeast Conference. The University is the only college or university with the Great Dane as its mascot.
The university's men's hockey club participates in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, but is not affiliated with the universities athletic department. The men's and women's crew team is student-association funded and participates in regional and national regattas.
The current Athletic Director of the University at Albany is Dr. Lee McElroy.
One of the most well known coaches at the university is football coach Bob Ford. The architect of the University at Albany's football program, Ford has been Albany's only head coach since the program was reinstated after a 46-year absence. Ford joined the program in 1970 when it was a club. After only three seasons at the club level, the program was upgraded to varsity status in 1973, and finished with a 7-2 record. In 1974, the team finished 9-0, the school's only undefeated season. Since then, he has compiled a 34-year varsity record of 208-136, while his 217 career victories ranks second among active NCAA Division I-AA head coaches. His Albany teams own a 78-41 mark for a .655 winning percentage over the last 11 years (all records as of the conclusion of the 2006 season).
Rudy Vido, who graduated in 1974 as a fullback and defensive end, became the first player in school history to try-out for an NFL team. He tried out for the New England Patriots, but never played in the league.
Ford's most celebrated season at the Division I level with the Great Danes was in 2002 by winning the program's first-ever Northeast Conference title. They would go on to defeat an unbeaten Duquesne in the ECAC Division I-AA Football Classic.
Ford's knowledge has also created a "coaching factory scenario" at the university. More than 100 coaches, who have started their careers under Ford, are currently employed with 60 different high schools, colleges, and professional teams from around the world.
The Albany Football program continues to grow under Ford's leadership. The program, which has played non-scholarship football since being established, as of the 2006 season had begun offering scholarships to part of its roster players. In 2005, Kurt Campbell became the first player in the program's history to be drafted into the NFL. Campbell was selected in the 7th round by the Green Bay Packers.
Success for Ford's program continued during the 2006 season. The Great Danes would defeat #11 Division I-AA ranked University of Delaware (a full-scholarship program) 17-10 in front of just over 22,000 people on September 16. Two weeks later, for the first time in the program’s history, the team would be ranked in both The Sports Network and College Sporting News Division I-AA national polls, ranked at No. 23 in both national rankings. The Great Danes would finish the season 7-4.
In the 2007 NFL Draft, Rashad Barksdale, who made the game winning interception against Delaware, became the second player in school history to be drafted. He was selected in the 6th round by the Philadelphia Eagles. Barksdale was cut however at the end of training camp, but was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, and became the first player in school history placed on an NFL 53-man roster.
The same year, defensive end Andre Coleman was signed to the practice squad of the San Diego Chargers.
Despite having two players drafted and multiple players try out with teams, no Albany football player has ever played in a NFL regular season game. (players have participated in pre-season games). Multiple alumni have also participated in the CFL and AFL (Arena Football League).
The University has also hosted the New York Giants summer training camp since 1996.
The University has a stated goal of building a 10,000-15,000+ seating capacity football stadium by 2009 as part of its 'Project 2010' initiative.
The second longest serving coach in UAlbany history belongs to Richard “Doc” Sauers. Sauers served as Great Danes men's basketball coach from 1955-1997. Little to many, Sauers is one of the winningest coaches in the history of college basketball with 702 victories. He led the program to eleven NCAA and four NAIA post-season tournament appearances in his tenor.
Sauers joined the program when the school was known as the State College for Teachers, and helped in the transition from the College Division into Division III and then Division II basketball. From 1975 to 1995, Sauers led the team to 10 NCAA Tournaments, 2 ECAC Championships (1978 and 1989), 10 20-win seasons and 26 17-win seasons.
Sauers finished his career with a 702-330 record in 41 seasons. Sauers achieved the prestigious 700-win mark on Feb. 8, 1997 in an 89-71 victory over the University of Bridgeport. He would retire one month later.
A banner is flown in the rafters of the SEFCU Arena honoring Sauers accomplishment of 702 wins. Sauers still coaches for UAlbany, now leading the Women's Golf program, in which he led the Great Danes to the 2004 America East Championship. He also was head coach for men's golf from 1962-79. He was inducted into the schools Hall of Fame in 2004.
The process to become a legit Division I program was slow. From the 1999-00 season, the first year in Division I, to the end of the 2004-05 season, UAlbany recorded a 48-118 record. The team finished over 10 victories in only two seasons. However, in the 2005-06 campaign, the Great Danes compiled a 21-11 season. In that season, the Great Danes would take on both the eventual national champions the University of Florida and UCLA, both of which would play each other for the National Championship.
On March 11, 2006, the men's basketball team won the America East conference tournament, earning the school (and the SUNY system) its first ever berth to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, defeating the University of Vermont 80-67 in a sold out RACC. The Great Danes were seeded #16 in the Washington, D.C. region and were matched up against top-seeded UConn. On March 17, 2006, the Danes nearly became the first #16 seed to defeat a #1 seed in the Division I tournament (#16 seed was 0-87 before Albany took the floor). The Danes, down only 1 at the half, went on a 13-0 run early in the second half to take a double-digit lead over the Huskies. With the game televised on CBS, the Danes led 50-38 with just over 11 minutes left in the game. Ultimately, the Huskies' stifling defense stopped the Danes' offense, and the Huskies averted the upset, winning 72-59.
The play against UConn gave the program instant notoriety. However, in the 2006-07 season, the Great Danes faced a much stronger America East conference. The Great Danes would accomplish a 20-9 regular season, but be the #2 seed in the conference tournament. This forced the Great Danes to travel to Vermont, who was the #1 seed for the conference championship, where they were previously 0-7.
The Great Danes, considered underdogs, would not falter. On March 10, 2007, the men's basketball team won their second consecutive America East title beating Vermont 60-59 in the conference final on a last second steal by Carl Ross and Brent Wilson. The Great Danes would be seeded 13th in the South Division of the 2007 NCAA Division I Tournament, and lost to the 4th seed Virginia Cavaliers 84-57 in the first round in Columbus, Ohio.
Prior to the conclusion of the 2006-2007 season, the men's basketball program retired the number 31 of player Jamar Wilson. Wilson finished his career as the school’s all-time scorer with 2,164 points, plus ranked second in assists with 488. Wilson became the first player in school history to score 500 points or more in three different seasons. He also shattered the school standard with 620 points in a season, breaking a record set by Jason Graber in 1993-94. He would also win two America East Player of the Year Awards, something only three other people in conference history had achieved. Many believe that his commitment to the university is part of the early Division I success of the men's basketball program. No athlete in the programs history has had their number retired prior.
The Great Danes success has brought national attention. The program has participated in ESPN's BraketBuster series in 2005-06 (at Virginia Commonwealth) and 2006-07 (at Boise St.), both of which were shown on one of ESPN's family of networks. The Great Danes will also be participating in BracketBuster during the 2007-08 season, and will play a national television game against Duke early in the season.
- The women's volleyball team in 2006 became the first team in school history to host a Division I NCAA Tournament event.
- Men's soccer goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul would sign a contract with the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer and make his professional debut, the first for an Albany alumni in the major-American (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS etc...) sports, on May 13, 2006.
- The men's lacrosse team has won its conference and has gone to the NCAA tournament in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007 seasons. The conference championship in 2003 would mark the first trip to a NCAA Division I Tournament for the university.
In the 2007 season, the lacrosse team had been ranked in the top-25 in both USILA and Nike/Inside Lacrosse polls, and reached a high of #2 in the USILA poll in 2007. Notable wins were against #1 ranked Johns Hopkins University and #10 Delaware. On May 13, 2007, the men's lacrosse team became the first team at the Division I level to advance/win a match in the NCAA Tournament, defeating Loyola College 19-10 in front of nearly 3,000 people at John Fallon Field. One week later, the Great Danes were defeated by undefeated Cornell University 12-11 in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Princeton University. The team finished ranked #4 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse poll, the highest ranking for any team in school history. Head Coach Scott Marr was awarded the USILA Division I National Lacrosse Coach of the Year to cap the amazing season.
- One of the big stars for the lacrosse team in 2007 was senior attackman Frank Resetarits. He would become the first Great Dane to earn first-team All-America honors as he was selected to the 2007 USILA All-America Team. Resetarits was also named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy. Resetarits would also become the first lacrosse player in school history to be drafted into the MLL (Major League Lacrosse), selected by the Washington Bayhawks, but being traded and making his debut with the Long Island Lizards.
Resetarits would also join the National Lacrosse League, drafted #5 overall by the San Jose Stealth in 2007 NLL Draft.
Resetarits was joined in the pros by UAlbany elite goal scorer Merrick Thomson. Thomson would sign a free agent contract with the New Jersey Pride on the MLL, and then drafted #2 overall by the Philadelphia Wings in the 2007 NLL Draft.
- The Athletic Program would win a record-tying eight conference titles in the 2006-2007 school year, including five during the spring sports period. The Great Danes took home the conference championship in women's volleyball, men’s indoor track & field, men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, men’s & women’s outdoor track & field, and softball (third straight title (2005-2007). To cap off the year, the baseball team won its first ever conference championship. They were selected as the #4 seed in the Fayetteville Regional in the 2007 NCAA Baseball Tournament (#1 University of Arkansas, #2 Creighton, #3 Oklahoma State). In addition, the university finished runner-up in women’s indoor track & field and women’s lacrosse in 2006-07.
- In 2007, Tom Hill became the fifth player in school history to be selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Hill was drafted in the 34th round as the 1023rd overall pick by the Kansas City Royals. Hill, who split time at catcher and designated hitter, joins former Great Danes Terry Kenny (ninth round, 1974), Steve Checksfield (10th round, 2001), Mike Grasso (11th round, 2002) and Adam Kroft (30th round, 2004). No Great Dane has ever played in the majors.
The University at Albany has awarded the 2004-05 'Stuart P. Haskell, Jr.' 'Commissioner’s Cup'. The Commissioner’s Cup annually recognizes the strongest athletic program in America East as determined by a scoring system which rewards a school for success both during the regular season and at championship competition in the conference’s 22 sports. Albany totaled 380 points.
The SEFCU Arena, UAlbany's main athletic venue, was formerly known as the RACC (Recreation and Convocation Center). On November 1, 2006, SEFCU, the largest credit union in the Capital Region, paid $2.75 million for naming rights.
The SEFCU Arena has continued to expand its role as a major venue for community events, sporting events, and university activities. It is the home for UAlbany's men's and women's basketball teams.
The capacity of the arena is 4,538.
A notable rivalry exists between the Great Danes and the Binghamton University Bearcats. Both teams joined the America East conference around the same time, and are relatively new to Division I sports. Their SUNY connection as well as geographic proximity has fostered the rivalry and generated the name, "''The I-88 Rivalry''." Both teams post the largest away crowds at either school's athletic events.
The other notable athletic rivalry is between Albany and the University of Vermont (UVM). UAlbany and UVM have twice met in the America East tournament finals (basketball) with Albany winning both games. The first win came in 2006 at home and the second came in 2007 at Vermont (Albany's first win in Vermont ever).
The University at Albany Libraries provide more than two million volumes, and rank amongst the top 100 research libraries in the United States (Association of Research Libraries). Users from around the world can access services and collections through the libraries' online systems and Web site. The university's libraries offer a program of information literacy and user education with instruction that ranges from a focus on traditional bibliographic access to collaborative classes integrated into the curriculum.
★ The school's colors are purple and gold.
★ The Student Association of the university owns an 850 acre wilderness retreat facility in the Adirondack mountains called "Camp Dippikill". The Cabins and Campsites at Dippikill are open to reservations from University at Albany Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff.
★ Transportation on the uptown campus is facilitated by buses run by the university which run shuttles around the campus. Buses between campus are facilitated jointly by the university and by the Capital District Transportation Authority; the university with links to the East Campus and from Freedom Quad/Empire Commons to area supermarkets, CDTA with most downtown-uptown service plus special service timed to school breaks.
★ In academic years ending in 1998 and 2004, the ''Princeton Review'' ranked ''UAlbany'' as "The #1 Party School in America". In 2005 the dubious honor was taken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This ranking is contested by the University, and many students, who claim that the ranking is based upon a non-scientific survey, and that the reality of the school is more academic. The way that the survey is taken is by going into one freshman sociology class and asking the students how many times they drink in a week. Generally speaking, the survey is taken after the school’s “fountain day” which is described in another section of this article. By only asking the freshman students at SUNY Albany at the strategic time of the year that they take the survey, and only asking the junior students at other universities the Princeton survey can skew their article to get a better desired result and henceforth sell more copies of their book. The school has done much to change that image, and the latest survey ranks Albany as the number 20 party school in the country.[1]
★ On the University Seal is Minerva, the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. But because Minerva was also identified with the Greek goddess Athena, she also became the goddess of war and victory. This famous statue was purchased in 1888 and rescued by Charles Wurtham (a custodian) from a devastating fire in the college's administrative offices. This seven-foot, white plaster landmark of the University at Albany is on display in the Science Library foyer (Uptown Campus). While there is no official record of where the statue of Minerva came from, it is reported that she was purchased with funds from a $1 student fee collected for make-up exams.
★ As UAlbany is located in the capital city of New York State and is one of the four University centers of New York, its unofficial nickname is the "College of the Empire State" (which is in the first line of the University's school song).
★ UAlbany is home to one of the oldest independent college newspapers in the nation, the ''Albany Student Press''. Published continuously since 1916, the newspaper has a circulation of more than 10,000 and serves the students and surrounding area.
★ On April 17, 2005 students from the University at Albany set and currently hold the record for the world's largest pillow fight with 3,648 participants, observed by Guinness Records officials.[5]
★ There is a network of underground maintenance tunnels open to students that allow access to many of the Uptown Campus's central buildings. Joggers often utilize these tunnels during winter, as they are heated year-round by large hot water pipes.
1. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/profiles/data/ess_ranking.cfm#E002835
2. http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/49_blackenrollment_publicivies.html
3. http://www.suny.edu/provost/MissionReview/MOU/Albany.pdf
4. http://cnse.albany.edu/downloads/Small%20Times%20May-June%202006.pdf
5. Guinness World Records
The Ualbany Fund is UAlbany's primary fund raiser.
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★ Downtown Campus
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★ College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
★ UAlbany Athletics, website of the Great Danes, UAlbany's sports teams
★ The New York State Writers Institute, located and housed at UAlbany
★ UAlbany Hillel, Jewish group on campus at UAlbany
★ WCDB, Campus radio station
★ Genomics at UAlbany
★ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science at UAlbany
★ Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at UAlbany
★ University at Albany architecture at Emporis Buildings
'University at Albany, SUNY', is a public university located in the capital of New York state, and is the senior campus of the SUNY system. The University was founded in 1844 in Albany, New York, and has three campuses; the Uptown and Downtown Campuses in the city of Albany and one campus in the town of East Greenbush, just east of Albany. The officially designated informal name is "'UAlbany'", but the university is sometimes referred to by locals, outsiders, oldtimers and alumni as '''Albany''', '''Albany State''', '''SUNY Albany''', '''SUNY A.''' or just plain '''SUNY'''. It began as a normal school in the mid-19th century and evolved into a State University Center by the middle of the 20th. In 2001, it was designated a State Center of Excellence for nanotechnology and subsequently has seen a large investment from both the State and from industry. The University hosts the only School of Public Health in SUNY (in conjunction with Wadsworth labs), two SUNY-wide research centers - the Atmospheric Science Research Center, and the Center for International Studies and World Affairs. UAlbany is one of four SUNY university centers.
Colleges and schools
The university comprises 10 colleges and schools:
College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences, comprising 25 departments and 59 programs, forms the largest academic division at the university.
Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences include Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Classics, Communication, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Geography and Planning, History, Judaic Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre, and Women's Studies.
College of Computing and Information
The College of Computing and Information at the University at Albany, State University of New York, was created in 2005.
It is composed of three founding faculties:
★ The Department of Information Studies (previously known as the School of Information Science and Policy), which offers programs in library and information science, including an American Library Association-accredited Master-level program suitable for later work as a librarian.
★ The Department of Computer Science.
★ The Department of Informatics (the home of campus-wide inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Program in Information Science and the IT Commons).
The College of Computing and Information commits itself to supporting world-class, discipline-based research and educational programs related to computing and information.
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, named for former U.S. Vice President and Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller, was created in 1981 and is home to the university's departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Policy.
Rockefeller College offers degree programs that range from bachelor's level study in political science and public policy, to master's programs in political science, public administration and public policy, to doctorates in political science and public administration. Research centers within the college include the Center for Legislative Development, the Center for Policy Research, the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, and the Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research.
In ''U.S. News and World Report's ''America's Best Graduate Schools 2005 Edition'', Rockefeller College was ranked 10th overall, 4th in "Information technology & management", and 6th in "Public administration & management" out of 253 schools of public affairs.
School of Business
The School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
The School Of Business for Graduate School at Suny Albany focuses more on the GMAT Score rather than the students' credentials. Therefore, a stellar G.P.A will not help you as much as a High GMAT score.
The School of Business has a 3.0 Grade Point Average requirement and numerous prerequisite courses. Undergraduates in the School of Business graduate with a Bachelor of Science in either business administration or accounting. Business administration majors concentrate in one of four fields, finance, marketing, information technology management (ITM, formerly management systems information science, or, MSIS), or management. Students are also permitted to combine concentrations as to further expand their knowledge and education. Recently there has been a new and excellent Financial Analyst program that was created. Both accounting and business administration majors are 60-credit majors, as opposed to the normal 40-credit majors in nearly every other field.
Due to the extremely diverse nature of this school, there are numerous extracurricular activities that align themselves with the school of business. There are a number of business groups and business fraternities that do many interesting and remarkable events around campus. One such group is the international business fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi. Their Zeta Psi chapter organizes, amongst other events, the annual career fair. Numerous companies and recruiters come to this event every year in order to meet with the students of the school of business.
The School of Business also offers master's and doctoral level courses of study.
The current dean of the School of Business is Paul A. Leonard, Ph.D., who was formerly a professor of finance with a long history in bond and bond analysis, and municipal lending.
School of Criminal Justice
The School of Criminal Justice was formed in 1966, and covers all aspects of criminal justice.
The school was ranked #2 in the nation by ''U.S. News and World Report''.
School of Education
The School of Education is home to the departments of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Educational and Counseling Psychology, Educational Theory and Practice, and Reading.
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Created in 2003, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (previously the School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering) is the first college in the world devoted exclusively to nanoscale science and engineering. By being completely independent from traditional disciplines, the college is able to create its curriculum from the ground up instead of relabeling traditional courses as "nano." In addition, CNSE is a worldwide melting pot of industry and academia. Not only are the students from around the world, but major companies in the various nanotechnology industries have offices and labs at the CNSE facilities- IBM, Infineon, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), GE (General Electric), Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, SEMATECH, DuPont, Kodak, DARPA, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, M&W Zander, Philips, NASA, and Motorola. Dubbed Albany Nanotech, this consortium is unlike anywhere else in the world. It also has the only 300-mm wafer processing line in the academic world. The University at Albany, these industry partners, and the State of New York have invested more than $3.5 billion in this 450,000-square-foot facility. Besides working alongside researchers from these notable labs, and using state of the industry tools, CNSE students not only get faculty with real world experience (many who have worked at these same labs), but they also enjoy a high placement rate in top-notch research labs.
School of Public Health
The School of Public Health was created in 1985 and is the only school of public health in the State University of New York. The school offers programs in biomedical sciences, biometry and statistics, environmental health and toxicology, epidemiology, and health policy, management, and behavior. It is accredited through the Council on Education for Public Health. Through a partnership with the New York State Department of Health, the School offers a research oriented approach for faculty, and valuable professional experiences for students. Degrees offered include MPH, MS, DrPH and PhD in four academic departments.
Research interests of over 200 doctoral-level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.
School of Social Welfare
The School of Social Welfare was created in 1965, and offers programs in Social Work.
State University of New York Research Centers
The University hosts two University-wide research centers:
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) is the State University of New York Center for research in the atmospheric sciences. The center was established on February 16, 1961, by the Board of Trustees as a university-wide center for the specific purpose to promote and encourage programs in basic and applied sciences especially as they related to the atmospheric environment.
The Center performs research to study the physical and chemical nature of the atmosphere and its implications to the environment. Current research areas include boundary layers, solar radiation, radiative transfer, atmospheric chemistry, aerosol physics, air quality, solar energy, cloud physics, climate systems, and air quality monitoring. In addition the center has a large "jungle research group" exploring atmosphere and biosphere relationships in Amazonia, the Alaskan Tundra, the Canadian Boreal Forest, and the eastern U.S..
International Studies and World Affairs
Rankings
In 2006,University at Albany was ranked among the top 300 universities in the world and 45th among world universities in Social Sciences by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jaio Tong University, Shanghai, China ( SJSU) a participant in the International Expert Group Created to Improve Higher Education Rankings.
According to ''US News and World Report'', UAlbany is a tier 3 national university; Tiers 1 and 2 are ranked according regarding the school as a whole and tier 3 institutions are otherwise unranked. Several individual programs, however (particularly graduate programs) are ranked among the top in the country.
The University ranks 77th nationally in NSF funded research, behind Carnegie Mellon at #76.[1] The University has no medical school, which makes the relatively high NSF funded profile noteworthy. When medical and engineering schools (Albany possesses neither) are excluded from NSF funded research national rankings, it is ranked 38th nationally.
''Chronicles of Higher Education'' ranks the doctoral programs in criminal justice, educational administration, and social welfare in their "Top 10" list nationally in their respective disciplines.
According to ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', it is a Public Ivy.[2]
Albany's stated mission is to move to become "most selective" university, and has engaged in a growth strategy that supports this objective.[3]
Other Top 25 Program Rankings and sources:
Criminal Justice - #2 (''US News'' 2006)
Educational Administration - #7 (''Academic Analytics'' 2006)
Social Welfare - #5 (''Academic Analytics'' 2006)
Public Policy - #10 (''US News'' 2005)
Information Technology and Management - #4 (''US News'' 2006)
Educational and Counseling Psychology - #13 (''US News'' 2006)
Africana Studies - #3 (''Black Issues in Higher Education'' July 2004)
Public Administration and Management - #6 (''US News'' 2006)
Public Finance and Budgeting - #9 (''US News'' 2006)
Public Policy Analysis - #25 (''US News'' 2006)
Library Science - #15 (''US News'' 2006)
Nanoscience and Engineering - #1 overall, ahead of Cornell (#2), Michigan-Ann Arbor (#3), Rice (#4), University of Pennsylvania (#5), and Virginia (#6).[4]
Atmospheric Sciences: ranked in the first quartile of NSF rankings in total federal R&D expenditures.
Campuses
Uptown Campus
The front of UAlbany's Uptown Campus, overlooking Collins Circle
The main (Uptown) campus, located at 1400 Washington Ave., is modernist in style, designed by world renowned architect Edward Durell Stone and based on a symmetrical plan. Since its opening in the mid 1960's, the Uptown campus has evoked strong responses. As University at Albany Professor of English and art critic Thomson Littlefield noted in the Times Union in 1967: “The place is so huge, so imposing, so beset with illusion, so far out of this world, that people are blinded to the actual, at least until they have looked assiduously for a very long while. A glance at the University is like a glance at the sun.” As recently as September 2006, a UAlbany student defended his campus in a letter to the editor of the Times Union. “The entire campus is a work of art – and I am not the artsy type,” he wrote in response to the opinion that the campus is unsightly.
The campus exemplifies the signature style Edward Durell Stone used in his major projects between 1954 and 1970, including the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India; the Hotel Phoenicia in Beirut, Lebanon; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C.; 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, NYC; and the Aon Center, originally the Standard Oil Building, in Chicago.
The academic buildings are located on the monolithic "Podium", a huge rectangular structure in the center of campus. The podium on which Stone clustered the academic buildings brought the disciplines together in a unified way, giving them all the same architecture and connecting them through stairways and walkways. Living and learning went hand in hand, with dormitories built within walking distance of classroom spaces. In the original design, automobiles were relegated to the perimeter of the campus. The Podium's architectural centerpiece is the "Carillon", a tall, cylindrical carillon that electronically emulates the sound of the original 15th century mechanical design. By employing various musical patterns, it is used to signal the beginning of hourly scheduled classes. At the base of the carillon is a large fountain, which is perhaps the most well recognized and appreciated feature of the campus.
It is a common misbelief that the uptown campus was originally designed and intended as a university in a warm climate such as Arizona. This is untrue as Edward Durrel Stone was commissioned by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller himself to design a campus specifically for Albany. In fact, the concrete canopies that connect all of the buildings on the podium were designed to protect students from the inclement Albany winters.
On the west end of the Uptown Campus is the Albany Nanotech facility. The 450,000 square foot, $3.5 billion facility is comprised of three buildings. NanoFab 200, also known as CESTM (Center for Environmental Science and Technology Management) houses a majority of the metrology or characterization tools, the National Weather Service (NWS), the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), the 200mm clean rooms, and various labs and offices. NanoFab 300 North houses the only 300mm processing line in the academic world, as well as a massive cleanroom for industrial R&D. NanoFab 300 South houses the academic offices of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, classrooms, a caferteria, offices, labs, and an additional cleanroom in the annex (NanoFab 300X). A fourth building (NanoFab 300 East) is set to open in 2008 and will hold additional lab, office, and cleanroom space.
Uptown Campus Housing
The Uptown Campus is home to six of the university's seven dormitory complexes. Four of these—Indian Quad, Dutch Quad, Colonial Quad, and State Quad—sit at the Podium's corners; each consists of eight three-story low-rise buildings encircling a 22-story tower with a total capacity of 1,200 students each. The four quads serve as a chronological timeline of New York State history, beginning with Indian Quad, moving clockwise to Dutch, then Colonial, and finally, State. The other two, Freedom Quad and Empire Commons, are reserved for juniors, seniors, graduate students (Empire only), or married couples; these are "apartment-style" and include kitchens, furnished living rooms, and on Empire: washers, dryers, dishwashers, single bedrooms, central air conditioning. Graduate students living on Empire have the previously mentioned amenities along with private bathrooms (one in each bedroom).
The Uptown Campus is also home to two of the university's three libraries, the University Library and the Science Library.
Downtown Campus
The Downtown Campus, located at 135 Western Ave., is the site of the original New York State College for Teachers. Construction began in 1909 on the first three buildings: Draper, Husted and Hawley halls, after the previous location on Willett Street burned down. Later additions to the campus were Richardson Hall, Page Hall and The Milne School (all in 1929), along with additions to Draper and Richardson halls (both in the 1960s).
The Downtown Campus is home to the University's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, School of Criminal Justice, College of Computing and Information, and School of Social Welfare. The Downtown Campus is also home to one of the University's three libraries, the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library, located in Hawley Hall.
The Downtown Campus is located just one mile from the New York State Capitol building and Empire State Plaza.
Alumni Quad, one of the university's seven dormitory complexes, is a short distance away from the Downtown Campus. The quad is usually reserved for transfer students and foreign exchange students (who are placed in Sayles Hall). Alumni Quad was named to commemorate the college's alumni who initiated a fundraising campaign to construct the residence halls.
East Campus
The East Campus, located in East Greenbush, is home to the School of Public Health, and the new Cancer Research Center, dubbed "Gen
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★ sis." Also located in this state-of-the-art facility is the Center for Functional Genomics, which facilitates research in the areas of microarrays, proteomics, molecular biology and transgenics.
Event Facilities
Campus Center
The Campus Center is the community center of the University at Albany, serving students, faculty, professional staff, alumni, and guests. Traditionally considered the "hearthstone" or "living room" of the campus, the Campus Center provides services and conveniences that community members need in their daily life. These include lounging areas and famous chain eateries. The Campus Center seeks to create an environment for getting to know and understand others through formal and informal interactions.
Facility Reservations:
The Campus Center Facilities & Operations function coordinates and manages the eight meeting rooms and Ballroom that comprise the conference portion of this multi-faceted building. During the academic year, the Campus Center’s meeting rooms host over 9,000 persons/month for meetings and functions within the building’s confines. Assuring that each is afforded of pleasant, comfortable accommodations is a goal of this office.
History
The University was chartered in 1844 as a normal school, charged with the task of training teachers as part of the Common School movement. The teachers' college joined with dozens of other state-run institutions of higher learning across New York with the founding of the State University of New York system in 1948. In 1962 the University at Albany was officially designated a doctoral-degree granting University Center by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. The same year, Rockefeller broke ground for the current main campus of the University on the former site of the Albany Country Club.
Evolution
| Name | Period |
|---|---|
| State Normal School | May 1844 – March 1890 |
| New York State Normal College | March 1890 – April 1914 |
| New York State College for Teachers | April 1914 – September 1959 |
| State University of New York College of Education at Albany | September 1959 – October 1961 |
| State University College at Albany | October 1961 – June 1962 |
| State University of New York at Albany (the University's legal name) | June 1962 – present |
| University at Albany, SUNY (common name) | Fall 1986 – present |
Presidents and Principals
★ David Perkins Page (1844 – 1848)
★ George R. Perkins (1848 – 1852)
★ Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D. (1852 – 1856)
★ David Cochran, A.M., Ph.D. (1856 – 1864)
★ Oliver Avery (1864 – 1867)
★ Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D. (1867)—Acting
★ Joseph Alden, D.D., LL.D. (1867 – 1882) —First to be called "President"
★ Edward P. Waterbury, A.M., Ph.D. (1882 – 1889)
★ Albert N. Husted (1889)—Acting
★ William J. Milne, M.S., Ph.D., LL.D. (1889 – 1914)
★ Leonard Blue (1914 – 1915) —Acting
★ Abram Roy Brubacher, Ph.D. (1915 – 1939)
★ John Sayles, Pd.B. (1939 – 1947) —Acting
★ Milton Nelson, Ph.D. (1947 – 1949) —Acting
★ Evan R. Collins (1949 – 1969)
★ Allan A. Kuusisto, Ph.D. (1969 – 1970) —Acting
★ Louis T. Benezet Ph.D. (1970 – 1975)
★ Emmett B. Fields, Ph.D. (1975 – 1977)
★ Vincent O'Leary (1977 – 1990)
★ Judith Ramaley, Ph.D. (1990)—Acting
★ H. Patrick Swygert, J.D. (1990 – 1995)
★ Karen R. Hitchcock (1996 – 2003)
★ Carlos Santiago (2004)—Acting
★ John R. Ryan (2004 – 2005) —Acting
★ Kermit L. Hall, Ph.D. (2005 – 2006)
★ Susan Herbst (2006 – ) —Acting, Officer-in-Charge
Noted faculty
★ Manuel Alvar (deceased), head of the Spanish Royal Academy, world renowned for his linguistic atlases of Spain and Spanish South America.
★ Victor Asal, political science. Expert on terrorism and director of the Certificate Program in Public Security.
★ Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished University Professor of English & American Literature (2004), Distinguished Service Professor(1992), Collins Fellow, Grand Marshal of the University. President, The Association for Documentary Editing. General Editor, ''The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson'', Harvard; has edited, co-edited (primarily with Joel Myerson), and authored over 20 volumes on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Michael Wigglesworth, and Cotton Mather.
★ Don Byrd, poet and literary critic. His works include his poetry collection ''Technics of Travel'', the book-length poems ''The Great Dimestore Centennial'' and ''Aesop's Garden'', an analysis of Charles Olson's Maximus, and his masterpiece of literary analysis ''The Poetics of the Common Knowledge''.
★ Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish Novelist (1910-1999). Distinguished Professor at the university from 1966 to 1970.
★ Gordon G. Gallup, evolutionary psychologist; developed the mirror test.
★ Thomas Galvin, (deceased), founding director of the Ph.D. in Information Studies or Informatics. He was a former director of the American Library Association, and an authority on information science.
★ John S. Justeson, linguistic anthropologist responsible for the decipherment of the Epi-Olmec script.
★ Leonard Kastle director of The Honeymoon Killers and notable American opera composer Of ''Deseret'', ''The Pariahs'' and others
★ William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor. Kennedy taught creative writing and journalism as an instructor from 1974 to 1982 at the University. In 1983, Kennedy was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Part of that award went to the institution of Kennedy's choice, which was UAlbany. The University made a commitment to match the funds he donated—$15,000 for five years (each), to create a writers' institute. The following year, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo signed into law the legislation creating the New York State Writers Institute.
★ Paul Kurtz, philosopher and director of the Center For Inquiry
★ Michael J. Malbin, political science. Expert on campaign finance, and former speech writer to Richard B. Cheney.
★ Jon Mandle, philosopher. Author of several books. Chair of philosophy department.
★ Ron McClamrock, philosopher. Works at the intersection of phenomenology and psychology.
★ Paul Pimsleur (deceased), linguist and educator. Author of ''Pimsleur Language Series''. Pimsleur's research focused on the language acquisition process.
★ Vincent Schaefer (deceased), founder and longtime director of the Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC).
★ Richard E. Stearns (emeritus), Turing award winner for computational complexity theory.
★ Bonnie Steinbock, philosopher. Noted expert on reproductive ethics. Former chair of philosophy department.
★ Omar J. Vázquez, advanced doctoral erudition; author of ''Classical Western Canon'' and several texts.
★ Bernard Vonnegut (deceased), atmospheric scientist renowned for his expertise in the physics of lightning. As a colleague of Vincent Schaefer at General Electric in 1946, Vonnegut discovered how to seed clouds with silver iodide shortly after Schaefer discovered the first successful method of cloud seeding, with dry ice. Older brother of author Kurt Vonnegut.
Noted alumni
★ Mike Arcuri (B.A. 1981, history and economics), former District Attorney for Oneida County, New York and congressional representative for New York's 24th congressional district
★ Catherine Bertini (1971), former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
★ Tom Clarke (1973), president of new business ventures for Nike, Inc.
★ Randy Cohen (B.A., music 1971), former writer for Late Night with David Letterman, currently writes 'The Ethicist' column for ''The New York Times Magazine'' and regularly answers ethical questions from listeners of "All Things Considered"
★ Ellen Datlow (1971) Former editor of Omni magazine and currently an award-winning speculative fiction editor and anthologist
★ Alan M. Davis, (B.S. 1970) IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur
★ Jamie Gold (1991), American television producer and 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
★ Harold Gould (1947), actor ("The Sting", "Rhoda", "Golden Girls")
★ Stephen Adly Guirgis, playwright (''Jesus Hopped the A Train'', ''Our Lady of 121st Street'')
★ Lawrence Korb (PhD, 1969) Council on Foreign Relations and Center for American Progress, Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-85)
★ John Kourakos (B.S. 1971), president of Tommy Jeans
★ Brian Lehrer (B.A. 1973), radio talk show host.
★ Phil Lewis (B.A. 1986), sportscasting great
★ Gregory Maguire, author of the books ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'' and ''Wicked'' (which became a Broadway musical)
★ John M. McHugh, Congressman from New York's 23rd congressional district.
★ Harvey Milk (1951), gay rights figure, former San Francisco city supervisor
★ Susan Molinari (B.A. 1980, M.A. 1982), former congresswoman
★ John Ortiz, actor (The Job (TV series), Carlito's Way, Miami Vice (film), American Gangster)
★ Joseph Persico (B.A. 1952 English and political science), biographer and historian
★ Celal Sengor, (B.S., 1982) Turkish geologist, foreign member of the American Philosophical Society.
★ Josh Shaw (B.A. finance and marketing 1997), entrepreneur and participant on "The Apprentice"
★ Kate Stoneman, Class of 1866, also a longtime faculty member, the first woman admitted to the New York State Bar in 1886, after she helped lobby for the law that allowed women to be admitted to the Bar. She later opened Albany Law School to women lawyers.
★ Norman E. Snyder, co-founder of SoBe
★ Louis Tobacco, Member of the New York State Assembly, representing Staten Island's 62nd District.
★ Gerhard Weinberg (B.A. 1948), American diplomatic and military historian.
★ Richard C. Wesley (1971), federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
★ D.B. Woodside, actor ("Buffy, the Vampire Slayer","24")
★ Bob Ryan, (B.S. 1967, atmospheric science), lead weatherman, WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.)
★ Bouna Coundoul, goalkeeper for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer
★ Rashad Barksdale, cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL
Athletics
Albany Great Danes logo
All athletics are run by the University at Albany Department of Athletics and Recreation. After the 1972 NCAA restructuring, the university competed in Division III athletics till the 1995-96 school year. The university would remain in Division II athletics until 1999 and currently has 19 varsity sports (8 men, 11 women) competing at the Division I level. Albany athletics however dates back to the late 1890s.
The school's sports teams are called the Great Danes and participates in Division I sports in the America East Conference since 2001. Football participates in Division I-AA as an associate member of the Northeast Conference. The University is the only college or university with the Great Dane as its mascot.
The university's men's hockey club participates in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, but is not affiliated with the universities athletic department. The men's and women's crew team is student-association funded and participates in regional and national regattas.
The current Athletic Director of the University at Albany is Dr. Lee McElroy.
Football
One of the most well known coaches at the university is football coach Bob Ford. The architect of the University at Albany's football program, Ford has been Albany's only head coach since the program was reinstated after a 46-year absence. Ford joined the program in 1970 when it was a club. After only three seasons at the club level, the program was upgraded to varsity status in 1973, and finished with a 7-2 record. In 1974, the team finished 9-0, the school's only undefeated season. Since then, he has compiled a 34-year varsity record of 208-136, while his 217 career victories ranks second among active NCAA Division I-AA head coaches. His Albany teams own a 78-41 mark for a .655 winning percentage over the last 11 years (all records as of the conclusion of the 2006 season).
Rudy Vido, who graduated in 1974 as a fullback and defensive end, became the first player in school history to try-out for an NFL team. He tried out for the New England Patriots, but never played in the league.
Ford's most celebrated season at the Division I level with the Great Danes was in 2002 by winning the program's first-ever Northeast Conference title. They would go on to defeat an unbeaten Duquesne in the ECAC Division I-AA Football Classic.
Ford's knowledge has also created a "coaching factory scenario" at the university. More than 100 coaches, who have started their careers under Ford, are currently employed with 60 different high schools, colleges, and professional teams from around the world.
The Albany Football program continues to grow under Ford's leadership. The program, which has played non-scholarship football since being established, as of the 2006 season had begun offering scholarships to part of its roster players. In 2005, Kurt Campbell became the first player in the program's history to be drafted into the NFL. Campbell was selected in the 7th round by the Green Bay Packers.
Success for Ford's program continued during the 2006 season. The Great Danes would defeat #11 Division I-AA ranked University of Delaware (a full-scholarship program) 17-10 in front of just over 22,000 people on September 16. Two weeks later, for the first time in the program’s history, the team would be ranked in both The Sports Network and College Sporting News Division I-AA national polls, ranked at No. 23 in both national rankings. The Great Danes would finish the season 7-4.
In the 2007 NFL Draft, Rashad Barksdale, who made the game winning interception against Delaware, became the second player in school history to be drafted. He was selected in the 6th round by the Philadelphia Eagles. Barksdale was cut however at the end of training camp, but was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, and became the first player in school history placed on an NFL 53-man roster.
The same year, defensive end Andre Coleman was signed to the practice squad of the San Diego Chargers.
Despite having two players drafted and multiple players try out with teams, no Albany football player has ever played in a NFL regular season game. (players have participated in pre-season games). Multiple alumni have also participated in the CFL and AFL (Arena Football League).
The University has also hosted the New York Giants summer training camp since 1996.
The University has a stated goal of building a 10,000-15,000+ seating capacity football stadium by 2009 as part of its 'Project 2010' initiative.
Men's Basketball
Sauers Era
The second longest serving coach in UAlbany history belongs to Richard “Doc” Sauers. Sauers served as Great Danes men's basketball coach from 1955-1997. Little to many, Sauers is one of the winningest coaches in the history of college basketball with 702 victories. He led the program to eleven NCAA and four NAIA post-season tournament appearances in his tenor.
Sauers joined the program when the school was known as the State College for Teachers, and helped in the transition from the College Division into Division III and then Division II basketball. From 1975 to 1995, Sauers led the team to 10 NCAA Tournaments, 2 ECAC Championships (1978 and 1989), 10 20-win seasons and 26 17-win seasons.
Sauers finished his career with a 702-330 record in 41 seasons. Sauers achieved the prestigious 700-win mark on Feb. 8, 1997 in an 89-71 victory over the University of Bridgeport. He would retire one month later.
A banner is flown in the rafters of the SEFCU Arena honoring Sauers accomplishment of 702 wins. Sauers still coaches for UAlbany, now leading the Women's Golf program, in which he led the Great Danes to the 2004 America East Championship. He also was head coach for men's golf from 1962-79. He was inducted into the schools Hall of Fame in 2004.
Division I
The process to become a legit Division I program was slow. From the 1999-00 season, the first year in Division I, to the end of the 2004-05 season, UAlbany recorded a 48-118 record. The team finished over 10 victories in only two seasons. However, in the 2005-06 campaign, the Great Danes compiled a 21-11 season. In that season, the Great Danes would take on both the eventual national champions the University of Florida and UCLA, both of which would play each other for the National Championship.
On March 11, 2006, the men's basketball team won the America East conference tournament, earning the school (and the SUNY system) its first ever berth to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, defeating the University of Vermont 80-67 in a sold out RACC. The Great Danes were seeded #16 in the Washington, D.C. region and were matched up against top-seeded UConn. On March 17, 2006, the Danes nearly became the first #16 seed to defeat a #1 seed in the Division I tournament (#16 seed was 0-87 before Albany took the floor). The Danes, down only 1 at the half, went on a 13-0 run early in the second half to take a double-digit lead over the Huskies. With the game televised on CBS, the Danes led 50-38 with just over 11 minutes left in the game. Ultimately, the Huskies' stifling defense stopped the Danes' offense, and the Huskies averted the upset, winning 72-59.
The play against UConn gave the program instant notoriety. However, in the 2006-07 season, the Great Danes faced a much stronger America East conference. The Great Danes would accomplish a 20-9 regular season, but be the #2 seed in the conference tournament. This forced the Great Danes to travel to Vermont, who was the #1 seed for the conference championship, where they were previously 0-7.
The Great Danes, considered underdogs, would not falter. On March 10, 2007, the men's basketball team won their second consecutive America East title beating Vermont 60-59 in the conference final on a last second steal by Carl Ross and Brent Wilson. The Great Danes would be seeded 13th in the South Division of the 2007 NCAA Division I Tournament, and lost to the 4th seed Virginia Cavaliers 84-57 in the first round in Columbus, Ohio.
Prior to the conclusion of the 2006-2007 season, the men's basketball program retired the number 31 of player Jamar Wilson. Wilson finished his career as the school’s all-time scorer with 2,164 points, plus ranked second in assists with 488. Wilson became the first player in school history to score 500 points or more in three different seasons. He also shattered the school standard with 620 points in a season, breaking a record set by Jason Graber in 1993-94. He would also win two America East Player of the Year Awards, something only three other people in conference history had achieved. Many believe that his commitment to the university is part of the early Division I success of the men's basketball program. No athlete in the programs history has had their number retired prior.
The Great Danes success has brought national attention. The program has participated in ESPN's BraketBuster series in 2005-06 (at Virginia Commonwealth) and 2006-07 (at Boise St.), both of which were shown on one of ESPN's family of networks. The Great Danes will also be participating in BracketBuster during the 2007-08 season, and will play a national television game against Duke early in the season.
Other Division I Athletic Success
- The women's volleyball team in 2006 became the first team in school history to host a Division I NCAA Tournament event.
- Men's soccer goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul would sign a contract with the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer and make his professional debut, the first for an Albany alumni in the major-American (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS etc...) sports, on May 13, 2006.
- The men's lacrosse team has won its conference and has gone to the NCAA tournament in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007 seasons. The conference championship in 2003 would mark the first trip to a NCAA Division I Tournament for the university.
In the 2007 season, the lacrosse team had been ranked in the top-25 in both USILA and Nike/Inside Lacrosse polls, and reached a high of #2 in the USILA poll in 2007. Notable wins were against #1 ranked Johns Hopkins University and #10 Delaware. On May 13, 2007, the men's lacrosse team became the first team at the Division I level to advance/win a match in the NCAA Tournament, defeating Loyola College 19-10 in front of nearly 3,000 people at John Fallon Field. One week later, the Great Danes were defeated by undefeated Cornell University 12-11 in the NCAA Quarterfinals at Princeton University. The team finished ranked #4 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse poll, the highest ranking for any team in school history. Head Coach Scott Marr was awarded the USILA Division I National Lacrosse Coach of the Year to cap the amazing season.
- One of the big stars for the lacrosse team in 2007 was senior attackman Frank Resetarits. He would become the first Great Dane to earn first-team All-America honors as he was selected to the 2007 USILA All-America Team. Resetarits was also named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy. Resetarits would also become the first lacrosse player in school history to be drafted into the MLL (Major League Lacrosse), selected by the Washington Bayhawks, but being traded and making his debut with the Long Island Lizards.
Resetarits would also join the National Lacrosse League, drafted #5 overall by the San Jose Stealth in 2007 NLL Draft.
Resetarits was joined in the pros by UAlbany elite goal scorer Merrick Thomson. Thomson would sign a free agent contract with the New Jersey Pride on the MLL, and then drafted #2 overall by the Philadelphia Wings in the 2007 NLL Draft.
- The Athletic Program would win a record-tying eight conference titles in the 2006-2007 school year, including five during the spring sports period. The Great Danes took home the conference championship in women's volleyball, men’s indoor track & field, men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, men’s & women’s outdoor track & field, and softball (third straight title (2005-2007). To cap off the year, the baseball team won its first ever conference championship. They were selected as the #4 seed in the Fayetteville Regional in the 2007 NCAA Baseball Tournament (#1 University of Arkansas, #2 Creighton, #3 Oklahoma State). In addition, the university finished runner-up in women’s indoor track & field and women’s lacrosse in 2006-07.
- In 2007, Tom Hill became the fifth player in school history to be selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Hill was drafted in the 34th round as the 1023rd overall pick by the Kansas City Royals. Hill, who split time at catcher and designated hitter, joins former Great Danes Terry Kenny (ninth round, 1974), Steve Checksfield (10th round, 2001), Mike Grasso (11th round, 2002) and Adam Kroft (30th round, 2004). No Great Dane has ever played in the majors.
Team championships at the Division I level
America East
| Year | Sport | Regular Season | Conference Tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| '2002' | Men's Lacrosse | X | |
| '2003' | Men's Indoor Track | X | |
| Men's Lacrosse | X | ||
| Men's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| '2004' | Men's Indoor Track | X | |
| Women's Volleyball | X | X | |
| Women's Golf | X | ||
| Men's Lacrosse | X | ||
| Softball | X | ||
| Men's Soccer | X (Co-Champions) | ||
| '2005' | Women's Volleyball | X | |
| Men's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| Softball | X | X | |
| Men's Lacrosse | X | ||
| '2006' | Men's Indoor Track | X | |
| Men's Basketball | X | X | |
| Softball | X | ||
| Women's Volleyball | X | X | |
| Women's Field Hockey | X (Co-Champions) | ||
| Men's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| Women's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| '2007' | Men's Indoor Track | X | |
| Men's Basketball | X | ||
| Men's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| Women's Outdoor Track and Field | X | ||
| Men's Lacrosse | X (Co-Champions) | X | |
| Softball | X | ||
| Baseball | X |
The University at Albany has awarded the 2004-05 'Stuart P. Haskell, Jr.' 'Commissioner’s Cup'. The Commissioner’s Cup annually recognizes the strongest athletic program in America East as determined by a scoring system which rewards a school for success both during the regular season and at championship competition in the conference’s 22 sports. Albany totaled 380 points.
Northeast Conference
| Year | Sport | Regular Season Title |
|---|---|---|
| '2002' | Football | X (ECAC Football Classic Champions) |
| '2003' | Football (Co-Champions) | X |
SEFCU Arena
The SEFCU Arena, UAlbany's main athletic venue, was formerly known as the RACC (Recreation and Convocation Center). On November 1, 2006, SEFCU, the largest credit union in the Capital Region, paid $2.75 million for naming rights.
The SEFCU Arena has continued to expand its role as a major venue for community events, sporting events, and university activities. It is the home for UAlbany's men's and women's basketball teams.
The capacity of the arena is 4,538.
Rivalries
A notable rivalry exists between the Great Danes and the Binghamton University Bearcats. Both teams joined the America East conference around the same time, and are relatively new to Division I sports. Their SUNY connection as well as geographic proximity has fostered the rivalry and generated the name, "''The I-88 Rivalry''." Both teams post the largest away crowds at either school's athletic events.
The other notable athletic rivalry is between Albany and the University of Vermont (UVM). UAlbany and UVM have twice met in the America East tournament finals (basketball) with Albany winning both games. The first win came in 2006 at home and the second came in 2007 at Vermont (Albany's first win in Vermont ever).
Fight song
Purple and gold,
your colors shining through
Hear as the carillons
are ringing true
The State of New York
sends up its cheer to you
Let’s go Albany!
Hail, young and old
We shall prevail,
purple and gold
One true triumphant call
Albany Danes are standing tall
Purple and gold,
our flags are waving high,
sending our victory song
into the sky
All of the world will fear
our mighty cry
Let’s go Albany!
Libraries
The University at Albany Libraries provide more than two million volumes, and rank amongst the top 100 research libraries in the United States (Association of Research Libraries). Users from around the world can access services and collections through the libraries' online systems and Web site. The university's libraries offer a program of information literacy and user education with instruction that ranges from a focus on traditional bibliographic access to collaborative classes integrated into the curriculum.
UAlbany Alma Mater
College of the Empire State,
Mother of an army great,
Thou the molder of our fate,
Thee we sing today.
Thine the hand with clasp so strong,
Holding tho' the years be long,
Thou the burden of our song,
Thee we sing today.
Ways of pleasantness are thine,
Leading where in wisdom's shrine,
Joy and cheer, and hope divine,
Ever dwell for aye.
Thine the voice whose call we hear,
Thine the hand which holds us near,
Thine the heart, so true, so dear,
Cherished, loved alway.
Wisdom's duty heeds thy call,
Ever in Minerva's thrall,
Pass the torch from one to all,
Guide each destiny.
'Neath the Purple and the Gold,
Let thy history unfold,
Sons and daughters, young and old,
Long live the struggle strong
Hail to Albany.
Miscellaneous
Traditional Fountain Day Celebration at UAlbany's Uptown Campus
★ The school's colors are purple and gold.
★ The Student Association of the university owns an 850 acre wilderness retreat facility in the Adirondack mountains called "Camp Dippikill". The Cabins and Campsites at Dippikill are open to reservations from University at Albany Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff.
★ Transportation on the uptown campus is facilitated by buses run by the university which run shuttles around the campus. Buses between campus are facilitated jointly by the university and by the Capital District Transportation Authority; the university with links to the East Campus and from Freedom Quad/Empire Commons to area supermarkets, CDTA with most downtown-uptown service plus special service timed to school breaks.
★ In academic years ending in 1998 and 2004, the ''Princeton Review'' ranked ''UAlbany'' as "The #1 Party School in America". In 2005 the dubious honor was taken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This ranking is contested by the University, and many students, who claim that the ranking is based upon a non-scientific survey, and that the reality of the school is more academic. The way that the survey is taken is by going into one freshman sociology class and asking the students how many times they drink in a week. Generally speaking, the survey is taken after the school’s “fountain day” which is described in another section of this article. By only asking the freshman students at SUNY Albany at the strategic time of the year that they take the survey, and only asking the junior students at other universities the Princeton survey can skew their article to get a better desired result and henceforth sell more copies of their book. The school has done much to change that image, and the latest survey ranks Albany as the number 20 party school in the country.[1]
★ On the University Seal is Minerva, the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. But because Minerva was also identified with the Greek goddess Athena, she also became the goddess of war and victory. This famous statue was purchased in 1888 and rescued by Charles Wurtham (a custodian) from a devastating fire in the college's administrative offices. This seven-foot, white plaster landmark of the University at Albany is on display in the Science Library foyer (Uptown Campus). While there is no official record of where the statue of Minerva came from, it is reported that she was purchased with funds from a $1 student fee collected for make-up exams.
★ As UAlbany is located in the capital city of New York State and is one of the four University centers of New York, its unofficial nickname is the "College of the Empire State" (which is in the first line of the University's school song).
★ UAlbany is home to one of the oldest independent college newspapers in the nation, the ''Albany Student Press''. Published continuously since 1916, the newspaper has a circulation of more than 10,000 and serves the students and surrounding area.
★ On April 17, 2005 students from the University at Albany set and currently hold the record for the world's largest pillow fight with 3,648 participants, observed by Guinness Records officials.[5]
★ There is a network of underground maintenance tunnels open to students that allow access to many of the Uptown Campus's central buildings. Joggers often utilize these tunnels during winter, as they are heated year-round by large hot water pipes.
Notes
1. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/profiles/data/ess_ranking.cfm#E002835
2. http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/49_blackenrollment_publicivies.html
3. http://www.suny.edu/provost/MissionReview/MOU/Albany.pdf
4. http://cnse.albany.edu/downloads/Small%20Times%20May-June%202006.pdf
5. Guinness World Records
The Ualbany Fund is UAlbany's primary fund raiser.
External links
★ University at Albany
★ Downtown Campus
★ East Campus
★ College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
★ UAlbany Athletics, website of the Great Danes, UAlbany's sports teams
★ The New York State Writers Institute, located and housed at UAlbany
★ UAlbany Hillel, Jewish group on campus at UAlbany
★ WCDB, Campus radio station
★ Genomics at UAlbany
★ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science at UAlbany
★ Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at UAlbany
★ University at Albany architecture at Emporis Buildings
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