About a dozen students complete a yoga pose inside the Group Exercise Room. About a dozen students complete a yoga pose inside the Group Exercise Room.

Campus Recreation

Empowering Great Danes to Lead Healthy Lifestyles 

Campus Recreation offers an array of engaging recreational opportunities that enrich the UAlbany experience for students, faculty and staff. We encourage you to explore our facilities and programs today — for the health of it!

Our general rules and and protocols include:

  • Only current UAlbany students, faculty and staff members may access our indoor facilities at this time. All patrons must show a valid UAlbany ID.

  • Closures — and any exceptions — are communicated on this website, as well as on our Facebook and Instagram pages. 

  • Capital Region community members may use our outdoor courts, fields, trails and paths.

 

Partner with Campus Recreation (Programming & Events)

Campus Recreation is available to partner with student organizations, classes, departments, units and other campus groups to provide wellness programming and events. 

Participants learn valuable skills for maintaining their physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being from group discussions, speakers and hands-on activities. For example, we’ve recently offered the following programs: 

  • Mindful Eating Workshop 

  • Epilepsy First Aid Training 

  • Weight-lifting Clinic 

  • Foam Rolling & Stretching Workshop 

  • Everything You Need to Know About Birth Control 

  • Sleep 101 Workshop 

  • What is macro, anyway? 

To request a workshop or to partner with us, please email [email protected] and include the program you’re interested in, the ideal date and time, and a brief description of your audience in your email.

Note: We need at least one week’s notice to implement most of the programs we co-host. 

 

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
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