List of University at Albany people
This is a list of University of Albany people.
Notable alumni
Arts
- Sally Sheinman, artist
Business
- Steven Berkowitz (1980), former Senior Vice President of Microsoft Online Services, and CEO of MOVE
- Jang Young-sik (PhD 1970), economist, former president of the Korea Electric Power Company
- Edward A. Maher (1867), president of the Third Avenue Railway[1][2]
- William Orton (1847), president of the Western Union Telegraph Company
- Norman E. Snyder (1983), co-founder of SoBe
- Ronn Torossian, (1995), CEO of 5W Public Relations, the 13th largest PR agency in the US
- Tony Vinciquerra (1977), former CEO of Fox Entertainment Group and current CEO and chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani[3]
Education
- Herman Aguinis, George Washington University School of Business professor and 77th president of the Academy of Management
- Delia E. Wilder Carson (1833-1917), art educator
- Michael R. Gottfredson, former president of the University of Oregon
- Lucy Stedman Lamson (1857-1926), business woman, educator
- Harris Pastides, 29th President of the University of South Carolina
Government, law, and public policy
- Mike Arcuri (1981), former District Attorney for Oneida County, New York; former representative for New York's 24th congressional district
- Catherine Bertini (1971), former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme; Fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Rosa Clemente, 2008 Green Party vice presidential candidate
- Scott de la Vega, acting United States Secretary of Interior under Joe Biden
- Abdirahman Mohamud Farole (1990), former president of the Puntland region of Somalia
- Christopher Hahn (BA 1994) Fox News contributor and syndicated radio host
- Gerald Jennings, mayor of Albany, New York
- Benjamin Kallos, lawyer and politician
- Lawrence Korb (PhD 1969), Council on Foreign Relations and Center for American Progress; Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981–85)
- Seth Marnin (BA, MA), judge, New York Court of Claims (2023–present), and first openly transgender male judge in the United States
- John M. McHugh (MPA 1977), Congressman from New York's 23rd congressional district (1993–2009); U.S. Secretary of the Army (2009–2015)
- Harvey Milk (1951), gay rights figure; former San Francisco city supervisor; assassinated in 1978
- Susan Molinari (BA 1980, MA 1982), former New York Congresswoman, Staten Island
- Zina Lisandrou Panagidi (1992), Mayor of Lefkoniko
- Joseph E. Persico (1952), best-selling author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial; biographer of Edward R. Murrow, Nelson Rockefeller, William Casey; former Nelson Rockefeller speechwriter
- John D. Porcari (1985), Deputy U.S. Secretary of Transportation under the Obama administration; former Maryland Secretary of Transportation
- Angelo L. Santabarbara (BS, 2001), New York State Assemblyman from New York's 111th district (2013–present)
- Louis R. Tobacco (1994), New York State Assemblyman (62nd District)
- Christine A. Varney, (1977), Assistant Attorney General; United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
- Mark Weprin (BA 1983), former member of the New York State Assembly and New York City Council
- Richard C. Wesley (1971), judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
- Lee M. Zeldin (BA 2001), United States Representative from New York's 1st congressional district (2015–2023); New York State Senator from New York's 3rd district (2011-2014)
[Hon. William J. Condon](BA 1981), New York State Supreme Court Justice Tenth Judicial District (2008-2022)
Journalism
- Tom Junod (1980), journalist and writer for Esquire magazine since 1997
- Gloria Rojas, journalist[4]
- Bob Ryan (1967), former lead weatherman, WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.)
- Tameka Abraham (2017), journalist and writer for Essence Magazine, Interview Magazine, Greatest Magazine and more.
Literature
- Emma Lee Benedict (1857-1937), editor, educator, author
- Marcia Brown, children's author
- Stephen Adly Guirgis (1990), playwright (Jesus Hopped the A Train, Our Lady of 121st Street)
- Joyce Hinnefeld, writer of fiction and nonfiction
- Gregory Maguire (1976), author of the books Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked (which became a Broadway musical)
- Paul Pines, poet, writer, memoirist; founded The Tin Palace, a jazz nightclub on the Bowery in New York City, and the Jazz at the Lake: Lake George Jazz Weekend
- Radclyffe (Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot), writer and editor of lesbian romance, paranormal romance, erotica and mystery; founder and publisher of Bold Stroke Books
Performing arts, Broadcasting
- Priya Anand, Indian film actress and model
- Awkwafina, aka Nora Lum (2011), American rapper, television personality, and actress.
- Edward Burns, film actor
- Carolee Carmello (1962), Broadway actress[5]
- Randy Cohen (1971), former writer for Late Night with David Letterman; currently writes "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine and answers ethical questions from listeners of All Things Considered
- Jamie Gold (1991), television producer and 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
- Harold Gould (1947), actor, The Sting, TV series Rhoda and Golden Girls
- Steve Guttenberg, film actor
- Randye Kaye, author, radio talk show host, and voice actress
- Brian Lehrer (1973), radio talk show host
- Brandon Jay McLaren (2002), television actor
- Ignacyo Matynia (2013), film and television actor, My Nightmare Landlord, Break Every Chain
- Michael Nolin (BA 1970), film studio executive; producer of Mr. Holland's Opus; screenwriter of Maniac Magee; professor at Savannah College of Art and Design
- John Ortiz, film and TV actor, The Job, Carlito's Way, Miami Vice, American Gangster)
- Josh Ostrovsky, aka The Fat Jewish
- Stacey Prussman (1992) Actress, Radio Host, Stand-Up Comedian, 2021 New York City mayoral candidate
- Howard Reig (1942), radio and television announcer
- Marie Roda, television personality featured on MTV's The Real World and The Challenge.
- Allan Steele, actor and writer
- Frank Whaley, film and television actor
- D.B. Woodside (1991), actor on TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24 and "Single Ladies
Science
- Frances E. Allen (1954), IBM Fellow, Turing Award winner (2006)
- Sallie W. Chisholm (PhD 1974), biological oceanographer and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Alan M. Davis (1970), IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering; author; entrepreneur; pomologist; horticulturalist
- Lois Privor-Dumm (1986), director, Alliances and Information for PneumoADIP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Myriam Gorospe, scientist, head of the RNA Regulation Section at the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Alanna Schepartz (1982), Milton Harris Professor of Chemistry at Yale University and Director, Yale Chemical Biology Institute; Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Celal Sengor (1982), Turkish geologist, foreign member of the American Philosophical Society
- Omar M. Yaghi (1985), James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at University of California, Berkeley; recipient of the American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2009)
Social sciences
- Robert H. Babcock (BA 1953, MA 1957), historian
- Anne Case (BA), economist
- Philip B. Coulter (PhD 1966), political scientist
- David Pietrusza (BA 1971, MA 1972), historian and author
- William J. Taverner (1990), author, sexologist, editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education
- Gerhard Weinberg (1948), diplomatic and military historian
Sports
- Rashad Barksdale (2007), NFL cornerback
- Dave Clawson (MA, 1990), Head Football Coach, Wake Forest
- Bouna Coundoul (attended 2002-04), Senegalese international soccer goalkeeper
- James Jones (BA 1986, MA 1995), Head Coach of the Yale University Men's Basketball Team
- Jordan Levine, professional lacrosse player
- Ashley Massaro, professional wrestler
- Brett Queener (2007), professional lacrosse player
- Joe Resetarits, professional lacrosse player
- Rob Senderoff, college basketball coach
- Jason Siggers (born 1985), basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Lyle Thompson, professional lacrosse player, two-time Tewaaraton Award Winner
- Tara VanDerveer (attended 1971–72), head women's basketball coach at Stanford University; member of Naismith Memorial and Women's Basketball Halls of Fame
- Jarren Williams (defensive back), NFL defensive back
Other
- Arlene Istar Lev (1986), family therapist and author of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and their Families
- Suzanne Lyall, sophomore who disappeared after getting off a bus at Collins Circle in 1998
- Philip Markoff (2007), deceased, accused "Craigslist Killer"[6]
- Peter Turkson, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Notable faculty
- Frances Dorothy Acomb, historian
- Manuel Alvar (1977–98), head of the Spanish Royal Academy; known for his linguistic atlases of Spain and Spanish South America
- Branka Arsić, scholar of American literature, won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize in 2016[7]
- 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
- George R. Goldner, art historian, former Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Paints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
| Executive | Title | Term |
|---|---|---|
| David Perkins Page | Principal | 1844–1848 |
| George R. Perkins | Principal | 1848–1852 |
| Samuel B. Woolworth | Principal | 1852–1856 |
| David Cochran | Principal | 1856–1864 |
| Oliver Avery | Principal | 1864–1867 |
| Samuel B. Woolworth | Acting principal | 1867 |
| Joseph Alden | President | 1867–1882 |
| Edward P. Waterbury | President | 1882–1889 |
| Albert N. Husted | Acting president | 1889 |
| William J. Milne | President | 1889–1914 |
| Leonard Blue | Acting president | 1914–1915 |
| Abram Roy Brubacher | President | 1915–1939 |
| John M. Sayles | President | 1939–1947 |
| Milton Nelson | Acting president | 1947–1949 |
| Evan R. Collins | President | 1949–1969 |
| Allan A. Kuusisto | Acting president | 1969–1970 |
| Louis T. Benezet | President | 1970–1975 |
| Emmett B. Fields | President | 1975–1977 |
| Vincent O'Leary | President | 1977–June 30, 1990 |
| Judith A. Ramaley | Acting president | July 1, 1990 – July 31, 1990 |
| H. Patrick Swygert | President | August 1, 1990 – June 30, 1995 |
| Karen R. Hitchcock | Acting president President | July 1, 1995 – November 7, 1996 November 8, 1996 – January 31, 2004 |
| Carlos E. Santiago | Officer-In-Charge | February 1, 2004 – February 23, 2004 |
| John R. Ryan | Interim president | February 24, 2004 – January 31, 2005 |
| Kermit L. Hall | President | February 1, 2005 – August 13, 2006 |
| Susan Herbst | Officer-In-Charge | August 14, 2006 – October 31, 2007 |
| George M. Philip | Interim president President | November 1, 2007 – June 16, 2009 June 16, 2009 – December 31, 2012 |
| Robert J. Jones | President | January 1, 2013 – September 30, 2016 |
| James R. Stellar | Interim president | September 24, 2016 – September 17, 2017 |
| Havidan Rodriguez | President | September 18, 2017 – present |
References
- Harsha, David Addison (1891). Noted Living Albanians and State Officials. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company. p. 231 – via Google Books.
- "Edward A. Maher Dies Suddenly At 72". The New York Times. New York, NY. September 15, 1920. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Hamdi Ulukaya". Forbes.
- Roberts, Sam (February 10, 2022). "Gloria Rojas, Trailblazing Latina Broadcaster, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
- "UAlbany grad Carolee Carmello reveals ups, downs of Broadway". Times Union. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- "Philip Markoff". The New York Times.
- "Branka Arsic". www.albany.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
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