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Two radio segments written and voiced by 49ͼ�� professors have been recognized as the best of the year in their respective categories by the producers of The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated radio production of Albany National Public Radio affiliate WAMC.

This fall, 49ͼ�� welcomed 43 new professors in more than 25 different departments, athletics, and the university libraries. 49ͼ��’s newest educators represent a mix of 49ͼ�� alumni, visiting professors from across the country, and new assistant professors with a wide range of research interests. For more information, read the full list of new faculty biographies below. Megan […]

On the Oxford University Press Blog, Associate Professor of Political Science Bruce Rutherford writes: Was [Egypt’s] January 2011 uprising an aberration, and has Egypt now returned to its historic norm of autocratic rule centered on the military? Or, was the uprising the first wave of a process of change that will resume and continue to shape Egypt and the region?

Each year, endowed academic chairs and professorships provide resources that support the work of 49ͼ�� faculty members across campus. 49ͼ��’s Board of Trustees approved a new slate of endowed chairholders during its autumn meeting, September 28–29.

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is pleased to announce Amy Leventer, Orville Whitnall Professor of geology, as the 2018 winner of the Goldthwait Polar Medal in recognition of her distinguished record of scholarship and service in polar science.

Described by Human Rights Review as a “thoughtful and sophisticated” interdisciplinary exploration, Seeing the Myth in Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press) offers an in-depth look at the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

According to “Circadian Effects on Performance and Effort in Collegiate Swimmers,” a recent article by Associate Professor of Biology and Chair of the Biology Department Krista Ingram, night owls may make less efficient swimmers in the morning.

New international agreements with universities in Geneva, Italy, and Japan will provide 49ͼ�� students with exciting new ways to expand and deepen their educational opportunities both on campus and abroad starting in 2019. A five-year joint AB-MA program with the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) now offers students the ability to […]

According to Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy, “The big thaw that Antarctica had been dodging has arrived.” A geomorphologist and field geologist by training, Levy recently worked with what he calls an international dream team of scientists to explore the intensity of permafrost thaw and glacier thinning in the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and Professor of English, has authored a travel memoir for the New York Times.