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Undergraduate Education, Academic Progression & Success

How We Support Student Success 

In Undergraduate Education, Academic Progression & Success, and Degree Completion & Learning Assessment, we work together to support undergraduate students’ success at UAlbany.

Our teams provide guidance, navigation and other services that help students become informed, engaged scholars capable of achieving excellence in their academic, professional and personal lives. 

We all work together closely but we each have general areas of expertise: 

  • Undergraduate Education manages undergraduate academic policies, the Dean’s List, Honors Medallions, academic standing, General Education requirements, waivers, substitutions, appeals, transfer recommendations and articulation agreements. 

  • Academic Progression & Success manages undergraduate withdrawal and readmission, the Academic Recovery Program, peer mentoring and academic coaching, as well as leaves for approved studies, degrees in absentia and student-initiated interdisciplinary majors and minors. 

  • Degree Completion & Learning Assessment manages the University’s Credit for Prior Learning and Degree Completion programs. 

Our teams are dedicated to fostering quality engagement between students and campus resources that will enhance their academic experience at UAlbany. Visit the Contact page to meet our staff.
 

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New Frontiers to Health

Scientists can identify the origins of diseases by studying how RNA turns genes on and off, potentially leading to innovative disease treatments and possible cures.

Biological Science grad student Marissa Louis in RNA lab

The RNA Institute offers unique opportunities to researchers and trainees for collaboration and interdisciplinary research. We have more than 50 faculty working to understand the role of RNA in fundamental biological processes, developing RNA as a tool for science and harnessing this knowledge to improve human health. 

The RNA Institute is more than just a modern research facility. We are a collection of diverse and talented researchers and laboratories united by a common goal in understanding the role of RNA across different fields, including biology, chemistry, biomedical sciences, physics, and nanobiosciences. RNA forms the basis of our research, it is the common element that we study, build, modify and analyze as well as the building blocks that we use to construct tools, reporters, and therapies.

Our RNA Training Programs provide a multi-disciplinary curriculum with a focus on RNA and its health-related benefits. We develop our future science leaders by providing trainees from high school to post-doc students and beyond with comprehensive access to faculty, techniques, and collaborations within Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, and Nanobiosciences. Our training includes the Doctoral RNA Training Program and the Undergraduate Summer Fellowship.
 

Ken Halvorsen and student researcher of the RNA Institute

One of The RNA Institute's strengths is the diversity of our faculty's research and range of disciplines. However, the diversity of our faculty and trainees lags behind the University at Albany's undergraduate population and surrounding communities. In line with UAlbany's mission to ensure that diversity, in its people and in its ideas, drives excellence in everything that it does, the Institute launched a multi-pronged approach to increase diversity and support inclusivity at the Institute and across STEM disciplines.
 

The RNA Institute hosted its inaugural RNA Day, inviting local students from the New York State’s Science Technology Entry Program (STEP) and Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region
The RNA Institute News
The RNA Institute, College of Arts and Sciences
Life Sciences 2033

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