<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2026/03-17/02-downstate-aba-program-ranked-first-nationally.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories>School of Health Professions</categories><pubDate>03/17/2026 05:30:00 AM</pubDate><title>Downstate ABA Program Ranked First Nationally in Research Productivity Study</title><sub-title/><description>A new independent study published in Behavior Analysis in Practice ranked Downstate’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program first in the nation in per-faculty research productivity among behavior analytic graduate training programs in the United States and Canada. The program also ranked first in a separate measure comparing publication output to expected performance based on faculty size.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/faculty/health-professions/applied-behavior-analysis/_images/Vladescu_Jason.jpg" alt="James Vladescu, PhD"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2026/03-17/02-downstate-aba-program-ranked-first-nationally.xml</loc><tags><tag>School of Health Professions</tag></tags><categories><category>School of Health Professions</category></categories></item>