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Seven students in professional attire stand holding award certificates and smile for a picture with UAlbany President Havidán Rodríguez and Vice President for Student Affairs Michael Christakis in a conference room.
Eight UAlbany Students Win 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
Eight UAlbany students will be recognized Thursday with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest award the State University of New York bestows upon a student.
A group of 16 members of STEM NOW pose, all smiling, for a group photo in a classroom at UAlbany. The group is posed in front of a white board and they are arranged in two rows. The front row is kneeling on the carpet, which is gray. All are wearing white name tags.
STEM NOW: Student Group Invites New Members to Promote Gender Equality in STEM
A new student org at UAlbany invites members to build community and promote gender equality in STEM
The image features two portraits side by side: Hannah Shorrock at left and Andy Berglund at right. Hannah, who has long brown hair, is wearing round glasses and a dark green plaid shirt. Andy is wearing a button down shirt with a pale blue and red checkered pattern. Both are smiling.
Researchers Awarded More Than $2.9 Million to Explore Treatments for Spinocerebellar Ataxias
Findings could inform new therapeutic approaches for a range of repeat expansion diseases, including rare and understudied conditions
A woman in a blazer and glasses holds a folder and stands in front of a research poster titled "Colorism in Indian Cinema."
Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications
The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.
UAlbany President Havidan Rodriguez welcomes guests to the 2023 Inventor Recognition Ceremony.
UAlbany Recognizes Inventors During Research and Entrepreneurship Week
From filing a first disclosure to an issued patent, the process to take an invention from an idea to the marketplace can be long and arduous. For the first time, UAlbany recognized the faculty, staff and students who submitted a patent application as part of Research and Entrepreneurship Week.
Farhana Islam performs the classical Indian dance known as Kathak during the Cultural Connections Festival.
UAlbany Students Celebrate Diversity at Third Annual Cultural Connections Festival
The event transformed the Campus Center Great Hall into a hub for cultural appreciation and expression.
Senior faculty are honored as part of UAlbany's Research and Entrepreneurship Week. (Photos by Patrick Dodson)
UAlbany Spotlights Senior Faculty for Research, Creative Arts and Scholarship
As part of Research and Entrepreneurship week, the University at Albany hosted a senior faculty recognition ceremony on Oct. 17.
The four featured researchers stand in Melinda Larsen's lab in the RNA Institute. The room itself is dimly lit, with the camera flash adding light. From left to right: Melinda Larsen (woman with blond hair wearing a black jacket with gray pants), Scott Tenenbaum (man with black glasses wearing black jacket with khaki pants), Andre Melendez (man wearing black rimmed glasses, pale purple dress shirt and tie and black slacks, and Mehmet Yigit (man wearing wire rimmed glasses, brown jacket and grey pants).
Researchers Awarded Funding to Study Cell Senescence and Salivary Gland Dysfunction
The interdisciplinary team seeks to advance technologies to treat multiple disease systems and pathologies associated with aging