College of Arts and Sciences News Archive

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UAlbany Chemists Create New High-Energy Compound to Fuel Space Flight
University at Albany chemists have created a new high-energy compound — manganese diboride — that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make space flights more efficient.
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UAlbany Summer: Developing AI Tools to Support Snow Prediction
Daniel Harkin was selected this summer for the William M. Lapenta internship program, which offers undergraduate and graduate students paid summer positions at NOAA-affiliated facilities.
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UAlbany, Girls Inc. Highlight STEM Through Eureka! Program
UAlbany once again served as hosts for the Girls Inc. Eureka! Program, a free, five-year college readiness program that provides girls with an introduction to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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UAlbany Celebrates World RNA Day, Student Research and New Projects Enabled by Empire AI
The RNA Institute welcomed over 200 attendees to its annual “World RNA Day” celebration. Festivities included lab tours and research presentations to showcase how studying RNA’s structure, function and modifications can unlock new approaches to combatting deadly and debilitating diseases through earlier diagnosis, effective treatments—and potentially cures.
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UAlbany Summer: Biology Major Explores Proteins that Could Help Speed Wound Healing
George Spencer III is a rising senior majoring in Biology at the College of Arts and Sciences. This summer, Spencer is studying proteins involved in wound healing as part of an internship in the surgery research unit at Albany Medical College.
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New Study Finds Males Much Larger than Females in Early Human Ancestors
A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The research, led by University at Albany anthropologist Adam D. Gordon, appears in the July issue of the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
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UAlbany Professor’s Book Chronicles Life in Fukushima’s Nuclear Aftermath
A new book by UAlbany English Professor Thomas Bass chronicles the Japanese government’s push to resettle more people to the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone amid ongoing safety and environmental concerns, as well as the grassroots network of citizen scientists who have emerged and are working to restore health and life amid radioactivity.
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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.