Grammar & Punctuation
The symbol that separates items in a list.
What is a comma?
What is Celsius?
Named after a popular Italian dessert, this ice cream features espresso and lady finger cookies.
What is Tiramisu?
The University at Albany Mascot.
Who is Damien?
When you need a cake pop, frappuccino, or pink drink, you better make sure you get in line!
What is Starbucks in the Campus Center?
The grammatical rule that says the verb in the sentence must match the subject in number.
A popular South Indian crepe, similar to a thin pancake.
What is a dosa?
Meaning "all the fruit," this ice cream's mix ins vary by brand.
What is Tutti Frutti
Our seal - The Goddess representing wisdom.
Who is Minerva?
When you need to talk to your Academic Advisor or Academic Coach, you go to this building.
What is Taconic?
This form of punctuation serves 2 functions:
1. Joining two complete sentences directly related in content.
2. Separating items in a complex list.
More recently, it has been recognized as a symbol for mental health awareness.
What is a semi-colon?
In the 1970s, lactose intolerant teenager Steven Kuhnau invented this popular beverage as an alternative to milk shakes.
What is a smoothie?
The Birthday Scoop that Ron Swanson gets at Baskin Robbins.
What is Rum Raisin?
The founding year of the University at Albany.
1844.
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What is the Learning Commons?
The practice that ensures all verbs in a sentence are either in the past, present, or future.
What is tense consistency?
This traditional Roman dish combines spaghetti, cream, egg yolk, parmesan, and pancetta.
What is pasta carbonara?
A flavor with heavy notes of anise.
The University at Albany motto.
"It is a Great Day to be a Great Dane."
The location of The Great Dane Union.
What is the Campus Center?
In an extended list, the comma placed before the coordinating conjunction.
What is the Oxford Comma?
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the Sweetest Place in the USA.
What is Hershey Park?
A layered mix of ice cream in 3 flavors with candied fruit and whipped cream, this ice cream is meant to be sliced, not scooped, and is supposed to represent the Italian flag.
What is Spumoni?
The 20th president of the University at Albany, and our current University President.
President Havidán Rodríguez
The location of UAlbany's Observatory.
What is Pine Bush?