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UAlbany Breast Cancer Expert Chairing Premier Conference on Vitamin D Biology
ALBANY, N.Y. (October 7, 2021) – On October 13 and 14, 2021, Distinguished Professor JoEllen Welsh is chairing a virtual conference on vitamin D, bringing together global research leaders and rising scientists to discuss the latest research advances and accelerate scientific discoveries that optimize the health effects of the vitamin D endocrine system.
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UAlbany Boosts Capital Region STEM Degree Awards Amid Pandemic
Despite unprecedented challenges brought on by the pandemic, the Capital Region’s STEM talent pipeline increased over the last year – thanks in large part to the University at Albany.
Microbiologists Cheryl Andam and Alex Valm in the UAlbany Life Sciences Building courtyard
Microbiology Research makes Maxi-Gains through Early Stage Investigators’ Success
Assistant professors Cheryl Andam and Alex Valm win major awards from NSF and NIH in the last two months, reflecting UAlbany's expanded portfolio in the Life Sciences.
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Girls Inc. Eureka! Imparts Knowledge with Fun to Young STEM Students
For the fourth straight summer, the College of Arts & Sciences hosts Girls Inc. Eureka! program, with faculty from seven UAlbany departments imparting a love of STEM subjects to girls from the Capital Region.
MIRA winners Qiang Zhang, left, and Morgan Sammons pose along a wall and in a garden
Two Cellular Scientists Rewarded as ‘Early Stage Investigators’
Two UAlbany scientists making strides in their independent research have received robust financial encouragement from the NIH to make critically important breakthroughs in the effort to reveal cellular causes of disease and to create novel therapeutics.
Student Mya Darsan crouches next to a fence affixed with a "Do Not Enter" sign, which explains that the bird nests and eggs in that area are a protected species.
5 Questions with Mya Darsan
Junior biology and environmental science student Mya Darsan is dedicating her summer to protecting the endangered piping plovers, a species important in maintaining biodiversity in an ecosystem.
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The 7th Cohort of RNA Fellows has Scientific Depth and Diversity
12 doctoral students from UAlbany and SUNY Poly have been named 2021-22 RNA fellows — the seventh such cohort in the institute’s young history.
RNA Institute Summer Program Local High Schooler Advances to International Science Competition
One of the youngest members of the RNA Institute's 2020 Summer Bioinformatics program, high school senior Cristina DeMeo, put the skills she learned to highly mature scientific use, creating an award-winning project on the most common form of motor neuron disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).