Welcome to the UAlbany News Podcast, where we speak with faculty, staff and students on how their research is tackling today’s most challenging problems and issues.
This show is hosted and produced by Sarah O'Carroll, a Communications Specialist at the University at Albany, State University of New York, with production assistance by Patrick Dodson and Scott Freedman.
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Where Drones are Headed in 2020, with Michael Leczinsky and Don Berchoff
Michael Leczinsky, a professor of practice in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), and Don Berchoff, CEO and founder of TruWeather Solutions, join the series to share their predictions for what ethical and technological challenges the drone industry will face in the new year.
TruWeather Solutions is a UAlbany-affiliated company that focuses on providing weather data and business analytics for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
13 Dec 2019
The Future of Democracy in Bolivia, with Gabriel Hetland
It’s been about a month since Evo Morales resigned as president of Bolivia following weeks of civil protests over disputed results of the country’s general election in October.
After initially seeking asylum in Mexico, Morales flew to Argentina on Thursday to be granted refugee status.
Gabriel Hetland, an assistant professor of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies, shares his insights on the political crisis and why he believes the resignation was a military coup.
11 Dec 2019
How a Traveling Salesman in the 1970s Became a Leading Opponent to the Death Penalty
James Acker, a distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, and Brian Keough, head of the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, are among the founders of the University’s National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA).
The NDPA contains a repository of publicly-accessible materials that track the history of capital punishment in the United States.
Acker and Keough join the series to share about the digitization efforts of a collection by M. Watt Espy, a researcher who spent three decades of his life gathering and indexing documentation of legal executions for what would become the nation’s largest database on capital punishment.
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