UAlbany Communication Department

10/09/2026

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Zoeann Murphy's AJRL 100 course recently welcomed photographer and journalist Kate Warren as a guest speaker. The conversation was so engaging that students stayed for nearly an hour after class to continue talking with her!

Warren recently reported from Cornell University, documenting the devastation and outrage following new revelations about an alleged 2024 gang r**e at a fraternity house. She shared insights into her trauma-informed approach to covering sensitive, high-impact stories for an international audience.

An interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the Hudson Valley, Warren has photographed investigative journalist Emma Brown, who broke the story of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other national publications.

Thank you to Kate Warren for sharing your experience and expertise with our students! These conversations offer valuable opportunities to learn about the challenges, responsibilities, and real-world impact of journalism.

10/09/2026

Interested in applying for NYS Legislative Internships?

We’re partnering with the Minerva Center for High Impact Practices to help support you with the application process.

We can’t wait to see you there!

10/09/2026

10/05/2026

Do you want to learn more about how to get an internship (or job) in communication or journalism, or what it’s like once you have one? Please join us on Monday, October 19th from 5-7pm in the CC Multipurpose Room to find out more! Together with our Communication & Journalism Internship Program Coordinators, representatives from Career and Professional Development, Communication and Journalism Majors (alums and current) with internship experience, and faculty from the Department of Communication, we’ll talk all things communication and careers (and enjoy refreshments!). Come and go as your schedule allows. No registration required.

10/02/2026

How can we protect individual privacy while ensuring that AI models are trained on diverse and comprehensive data?

Join Dr. Archana Krishnan as she explores this important challenge surrounding generative AI: the tension between user data privacy, diversity in AI training data, bias, and model robustness. The discussion will examine the “AI data paradox”: how protecting user privacy can limit the availability of new and diverse data for AI training, potentially allowing biases and limitations in initial training datasets to persist.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
10:00–11:00AM
Standish Room, 3rd Floor, Science Library
University at Albany Uptown Campus
Also available via Zoom!

Presenter: Archana Krishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University at Albany

Dr. Krishnan’s research focuses on health communication and computer-mediated communication, with an emphasis on mobile health and AI to address health inequities. She also serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Information Science and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government.

Register here: https://t.co/A4VzIwH1Mk

We hope you’ll join us for this timely conversation about the future of generative AI, privacy, and responsible AI development!

09/15/2026

We invite you to join the UAlbany Communication Department's Proseminar this Friday, 9/18 at 3:45pm for a guest lecture by David Oliveros, MPH, who is the Associate Director for International Research, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

His lecture is titled "Introduction to nominal group technique: A rapid mixed-methods research approach". This lecture will introduce Nominal Group Technique (NGT) as a structured mixed-methods research strategy for generating, discussing, and prioritizing ideas through group consensus. We will review its core procedures, methodological strengths and limitations, and its applicability across a range of research and decision-making contexts. Real-world examples will be used to illustrate how NGT can support stakeholder engagement, identify key priorities, and translate group perspectives into actionable insights across disciplines.

Proseminar is the Communication Department's monthly meeting for graduate students to present, discuss, and learn more about research. The guest lecture is from 3:45-4:30pm on Zoom. To attend the guest lecture, please contact our Proseminar Coordinator, Dr. Archana Krishnan ([email protected]), or her assistant, Alex Stankus ([email protected]) to access the Zoom meeting.

David Oliveros, MPH, is an Associate Director for International Research at the Altice Lab of the Yale School of Medicine, where he oversees multi-country NIH-funded studies focused on stigma reduction and integrated care models for HIV and substance use. His research focuses on strategies to optimize the care continuums for HIV and opioid use disorder, particularly across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, using mixed-methods and implementation science approaches to identify service gaps and strengthen care delivery for key populations.

09/04/2026

Another congratulations are in order for Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed, who was awarded the AI & Society Consortium Public Engagement Fellowship! This is a shared initiative of the AI & Society Research Center and the AI & Society College.

As an AI & Society Public Engagement Fellow (2026–2027), she will examine how AI translation tools shape mental health literacy in refugee and immigrant communities and co create culturally responsive multilingual resources through direct community engagement.

https://www.albany.edu/ai-plus/ai-society-college -fellowships

07/29/2026

Attention: Due to significant flooding in and around campus, the University Libraries' physical buildings will be closed today. If you can stay off the roads, please do so. Hopefully we will see you all in person tomorrow!

Quick event note: Our virtual book club discussion is still on for tonight! We will see you online!

07/29/2026

Free fair day for SUNY students! 🎡

On August 27, SUNY students can enjoy the Great New York State Fair for free during Student Youth Day. Simply present your SUNY student ID or, for incoming students, your SUNY admissions letter. 🎟️

https://ow.ly/nH7T50ZsooO

07/29/2026

🎉 Please join me in congratulating Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed on her appointment as Editor-Elect of Qualitative Research Reports in Communication (QRRC)! Rukhsana is a long-standing member of ECA. Dr. Ahmed will officially begin her tenure as Editor on January 1, 2027.

Congratulations to Rukhsana on this exciting opportunity, and best wishes for continued success as she guides Qualitative Research Reports in Communication into its next chapter!