#OneUAlbany

Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and parents step up to help during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UAlbany hosted upstate New York’s first state-run COVID-19 mobile testing site.

UAlbany buses delivered meals to Albany Meals on Wheels clients and the Cohoes Senior Center. University Parking and Mass Transit Services partnered with LifePath, a not-for-profit senior-services organization.

Mark Yang ’92 donated 2,000+ masks and gloves to St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany.

A generous alumnus matched all gifts to the Student Emergency Fund, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000.

“It’s a heck of a feeling to see the place I go to school has got my back at work. Thanks for looking out for us; we really are putting these to good use”. (Robert Vivas, UAlbany student and nurse who found a new supply of PPE awaiting him at work.)

Coach Will Brown and his wife, Jamie, helped raise $100,000 for Capital Region cancer patients facing new struggles due to the pandemic.

The School of Education is offering several resources to K-12 teachers as they navigate the transition to remote teaching and learning.

The School of Public Health helped with two state-led studies examining potential COVID-19 drug treatments: a randomized controlled trial and an observational study. UAlbany is NYSDOH’s lead academic partner on the observational study, while another leading university will be the academic partner on the randomized trial.

Purple Friday endures...virtually!

Mom decorated a 2020 graduate’s living room when she came home.

Tom and Mary Casey Stadium lit up in blue to honor health-care workers and essential front-line responders.

MPH student Makensy Jabbour conducts contact tracing as part of her internship with the Albany County Department of Health.

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity are producing face shields for distribution to health-care providers using 3D printers.

More than two dozen student volunteers and two ambulances from Five Quad, UAlbany’s student-run volunteer ambulance service, traveled to Rockland County in downstate New York to help local ambulance squads keep up with high call volumes.

Staff orchestrated the first virtual open house for accepted students. It was very well attended.

UAlbany’s student-led Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST) is tracking COVID-19 on social media to aid emergency management.

UAlbany’s academic advisors met to keep advising on track.

The Alumni Association has sponsored a series of live talks featuring alumni in different fields. Dr. Evan Zahn ’82, congenital heart cardiologist, took us inside a pediatric ICU (video on UAlbany’s Alumni Association Facebook page).