List of University at Albany people

This is a list of University of Albany people.

Notable alumni

Business

Government, law, and public policy

Journalism
  • Tom Junod (1980), journalist and writer for Esquire magazine since 1997
  • Bob Ryan (1967), former lead weatherman, WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.)

Literature and drama

Science

Social sciences

Sports

Television, film, and radio

Other

Notable faculty
  • Manuel Alvar (1977–98), head of the Spanish Royal Academy; known for his linguistic atlases of Spain and Spanish South America
  • Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1966–70), Spanish Novelist (1910–1999); won Cervantes Prize in 1985
  • Ronald A. Bosco (1975–present), Distinguished University Professor of English & American Literature (2004), SUNY Distinguished Service Professor (1992); president, Association for Documentary Editing; General Editor of 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 (1971–present), poet and literary critic; 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 Common Knowledge
  • JoAnne Carson, painter and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow (2016)
  • Alan S. Chartock, political scientist and radio personality
  • John Frederick Dewey (1971–1982), structural geologist widely regarded as an authority on the development and evolution of mountain ranges; Fellow of the Royal Society, Wollaston Medal and Penrose Medal recipient, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  • Sandra K. Ellston, Shakespearean scholar, former Chair of Undergraduate Studies in English and co-director of the Humanities Center.
  • Joachim Frank (1976–present), computational biologist, School of Public Health; investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at New York State's Wadsworth Center; elected in 2006 to National Academy of Sciences and named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  • Gordon G. Gallup (1975–present), evolutionary psychologist; developed the mirror test
  • M. E. Grenander (1948–89), professor of English, authority on Ambrose Bierce, and benefactor of the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives
  • Pierre Joris (1992–present), poet, translator, anthologist; renowned translator of Paul Celan
  • Leonard Kastle (1978–89), director of The Honeymoon Killers and notable opera composer of Deseret and The Pariahs
  • William Kennedy (1974–present), 1984 winner of Pulitzer Prize for fiction for novel Ironweed; taught creative writing and journalism as UAlbany instructor from 1974 to 1982, thereafter full professor of creative writing; in 1983, awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, part of which went to UAlbany's New York State Writers Institute
  • Scott Lilienfeld, author
  • Michael J. Malbin (1990–present), political science, and expert on campaign finance; former speech writer to Richard B. Cheney
  • Jon Mandle (1994–present), philosopher who works on issues of political theory and global justice; author of What's Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness and Global Justice: An Introduction
  • Ron McClamrock (1992–present), philosopher who works at the intersection of phenomenology and psychology; author of Existential Cognition: Minds in the World
  • Toni Morrison (1985–89), author, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (works include Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon)
  • Paul Pimsleur (1970–76), linguist, educator and researcher of the language acquisition process, and author of Pimsleur Language Series
  • Vincent Schaefer, founder and longtime director of the Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC); discovered the first successful method of cloud seeding, with dry ice
  • Richard E. Stearns, emeritus (1978–2000), Turing award winner for computational complexity theory
  • Bonnie Steinbock (1977–2014), philosopher, expert on reproductive ethics, and former chair of philosophy department
  • Bernard Vonnegut (1967–85), atmospheric scientist known for expertise in the physics of lightning; as a colleague of Vincent Schaefer at General Electric in 1946, discovered silver iodide method of cloud-seeding; older brother of author Kurt Vonnegut
  • David Wills (1998–2013), translator of Jacques Derrida

University presidents
ExecutiveTitleTerm
David Perkins PagePrincipal1844–1848
George R. PerkinsPrincipal1848–1852
Samuel B. WoolworthPrincipal1852–1856
David CochranPrincipal1856–1864
Oliver AveryPrincipal1864–1867
Samuel B. WoolworthActing principal1867
Joseph AldenPresident1867–1882
Edward P. WaterburyPresident1882–1889
Albert N. HustedActing president1889
William J. MilnePresident1889–1914
Leonard BlueActing president1914–1915
Abram Roy BrubacherPresident1915–1939
John M. SaylesPresident1939–1947
Milton NelsonActing president1947–1949
Evan R. CollinsPresident1949–1969
Allan A. KuusistoActing president1969–1970
Louis T. BenezetPresident1970–1975
Emmett B. FieldsPresident1975–1977
Vincent O'LearyPresident1977–June 30, 1990
Judith A. RamaleyActing presidentJuly 1, 1990 – July 31, 1990
H. Patrick SwygertPresidentAugust 1, 1990 – June 30, 1995
Karen R. HitchcockActing president
President		July 1, 1995 – November 7, 1996
November 8, 1996 – January 31, 2004
Carlos E. SantiagoOfficer-In-ChargeFebruary 1, 2004 – February 23, 2004
John R. RyanInterim presidentFebruary 24, 2004 – January 31, 2005
Kermit L. HallPresidentFebruary 1, 2005 – August 13, 2006
Susan HerbstOfficer-In-ChargeAugust 14, 2006 – October 31, 2007
George M. PhilipInterim president
President		November 1, 2007 – June 16, 2009
June 16, 2009 – December 31, 2012
Robert J. JonesPresidentJanuary 1, 2013 – September 30, 2016[3]
James R. StellarInterim presidentSeptember 24, 2016 – September 17, 2017
Havidan RodriguezPresidentSeptember 18, 2017 – present

References
  1. "UAlbany grad Carolee Carmello reveals ups, downs of Broadway". Times Union. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  2. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/m/philip_markoff/index.html
  3. Personal email sent to students, faculty, and staff.
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