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Undergraduate Colleges /
SUNY at Albany |
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Table of Contents |
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Famous Faculty |
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- Toni Morrison - Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize
for Literature-winning author.
- William Kennedy - Pulitzer Prize-winning professor, William Kennedy, taught creative writing
and journalism as an instructor from 1974 to 1982 at the University. In 1983, Kennedy was awarded the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Part of that award went to the institution of Kennedy’s choice, which was UAlbany. The
University made a commitment to match the funds he donated — fifteen thousand dollars for five years (each), to create a
writers institute. The following year, Governor Mario M. Cuomo signed into law the legislation creating the New York State
Writers Institute.
- Richard E. Stearns - Turing award winner for computational complexity theory.
- Bernard Vonnegut - Atmospheric scientist. Older brother of
author Kurt Vonnegut.
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Interesting Fact |
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The adult population of West Virginia has the lowest percentage of college graduates (15%) of any state. Massachusetts has the highest (38%). |
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