5 Questions with CEAS Dean Michele J. Grimm
In July of this year, the University at Albany named biomedical engineer Michele J. Grimm as dean of UAlbany's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) after a national search. Dean Grimm offers insights on what lies in store for the future at CEAS.
UAlbany ESE PhD Student Presented at AEESP Conference
Daniel Moreno-Jimenez, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, presented at the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference. He was awarded $500 travel grant from AEESP (sponsored by NSF) and an additional $750 Great Dane Internship Scholarship award from the University to attend the conference.
UAlbany ESE Undergrad Student Awarded a Scholarship from NYWEA
Julia Boyne, an undergraduate student of the Environmental and Sustainable Engineering department, was awarded $4,000 from The New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA).
UAlbany Launches New Degrees in Environmental & Sustainable Engineering
UAlbany's Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is taking added new master’s and PhD degree programs focused on solving critical environmental problems from local through global scales,.
Albany AI: Transforming the Academic Landscape
With the goal of becoming the first university-based computer to reach a quintillion computations per second, Albany AI will empower university and industry researchers to harness massive data sets to better understand how to automate complex operations, and create teaching and research collaborations with faculty in all disciplines.
UAlbany Engineering Building to Anchor New Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative
The University at Albany today began a new era of teaching and research with the launch of Albany AI, a $200 million public-private supercomputing initiative based out of UAlbany’s soon-to-be-renovated College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building. Buoyed by $75 million in state funding to complete the transformation of the former Albany High School into a state-of-the-art engineering college and fund the construction of a supercomputer, the Albany Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative (Albany AI) will significantly expand New York’s capacity in this major emerging field.
UAlbany ESE Faculty Discusses Her Research on Phytoremediation and Destruction of PFAS
Department Chair of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, Dr. Yanna Liang, discusses her research on Phytoremediation and Destruction of PFAS — the use of plants to remove PFAS constituents from contaminated soils- on the podcast channel, Disrupting PFAS with Jeff Hale.
Understanding how Fires Impact the Carbon Cycle
UAlbany researcher Rixiang Huang, an assistant professor of environmental and sustainable engineering, is undertaking a new project that is designed to reveal how charcoal from fires decomposes over time.