Richard F. Hamm's new book, Confronting Racism: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Fight for Equality, 1925-1954, has been published by SUNY Press. The book examines how Hays, a Jewish corporate lawyer, became an unlikely civil rights advocate. Grounded in the Bill of Rights, his legal battles revealed both the promise and limits of civil liberties law in confronting segregation.

ES&T Water, an American Chemical Society journal, has bestowed a Best Paper Award to a UAlbany paper examining the use of graphene oxide to remove PFAS from water. Co-authors represent the departments of Environmental & Sustainable Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering in the College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, and Chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences.

With collaborators at IBM and UC San Diego, S M Ashiqul Islam received $100,000 from IBM through the Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems to use advanced AI to accelerate cancer DNA analysis. This project aims to uncover cancer’s causes and make large-scale cancer studies faster, more affordable and accessible worldwide.