October 2010 NewsCenter Archive

The UAlbany men's and women's basketball teams start their seasons on Friday, November 12th, when the Great Danes host a doubleheader against Ivy League schools at SEFCU Arena. The women play at 5 p.m. against Brown University, while the men are set to tip off at 7:30 p.m. against Cornell.

From November 5 through November 20th, UAlbany's Theatre Department will present Dear Harvey, an intimate retelling of the life and times of one the University's most accomplished graduates, civil rights icon Harvey Milk, '51.

From improved health care and clean energy technologies, to the advent of exciting video games and new crime-solving techniques, the growing impact of nanotechnology on society will take center stage when UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering holds its third annual "NANOvember."

A $710,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help UAlbany researchers develop a framework for providing consumers with knowledge about how, where, and by whom products are being manufactured and brought to market in the North American Free Trade Agreement region.

UAlbany School of Business Associate Professor Sanjay Goel has won a grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study how traffic lights can be more efficiently organized so that drivers save time and gas, thereby reducing carbon emissions.

Sapphire, author of the bestselling novel Push (1996), will speak, Tuesday, October 26, at an event co-sponsored by UAlbany's School of Public Health and The New York State Writers Institute.

In the labs of the Cancer Research Center, scientists and students are working, side-by-side, to investigate one of the most aggressive and lethal forms of breast cancer that most people don’t know exists.

The University Art Museum is organizing a major exhibition of the work of UAlbany alumni in the fall semester 2011. The exhibition will occupy the entire museum space and will include all media: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and works on paper.

Researchers from the University at Albany have partnered with the New York State Department of Transportation and Hudson River Valley Greenway to help New York communities establish scenic byway designation for the state's roads and highways.

Governor David A. Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver joined SEMATECH President and CEO Daniel Armbrust and UAlbany CNSE Senior V.P. and CEO Alain Kaloyeros today to announce that the International SEMATECH will relocate its headquarters and operations to CNSE's Albany NanoTech Complex.

Pediatric cardiologist Evan Zahn, who heads one of the nation's leading heart surgery programs and nationally recognized radio host Kathryn Zox are the 2010 honorees at UAlbany's annual 'Reaching Higher, Achieving More' luncheon, Oct. 8.

President George M. Philip announced at a town hall meeting of students, faculty and staff that the University at Albany is faced with rethinking, rebalancing and reallocating its resources to address its ongoing budget challenges.

Health researchers from SUNY campuses will meet with community partners at the University at Albany Oct. 7-8 to discuss inequities in health care affecting such populations as low-income women from rural areas, Latina family caregivers, urban youths, and American Indians living near polluted waters.