Vincent O'Leary, Acting President from 1977?1978 and President from 1978?July 31, 1990 (viewer's left), with the Chinese Ambassador at a press conference. During O'Leary's administrations, the institution was named State University of New York at Albany from August 1962?fall 1986 and the University at Albany, SUNY starting in the fall of 1986 and continuing.
A portrait of Madeleine Kunin, former three-term Governor of Vermont and U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, appointed by President Bill Clinton. Ms. Kunin was a visitor to the institution.