Engineering Solutions for People Living with Disabilities
For UAlbany students Guillermo Mijancos, Joseph Salgado and Michael L. George, engineering is more than just a construction tool. It’s a critical way of thinking about solutions that can benefit our lives. The three electrical and computing engineering majors recently completed their senior capstone project, with a focus on aiding and improving the lives of people living with disabilities.
Eight Honored with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards
Eight outstanding UAlbany students will be honored Tuesday with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, which is the highest award SUNY bestows. Chancellor’s Award winners are selected for outstanding achievements in academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service or the arts.
Student Researchers Aided by CURCE Funding
Nineteen students received small grants last fall to offset expenses directly related to their research or creative projects with University faculty, including attending conferences, purchasing materials and covering tuition for related course work. Spring recipients will be announced next week.
UAlbany, FIU Researchers Team Up to Launch $1.5 Million Virtual Cybersecurity Institute
The institute will help train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals for future military and civilian leadership positions.
ETEC Opening Ceremony Celebrates New Center of Research and Innovation
An official ribbon cutting was held for UAlbany's new ETEC building.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Aid Farmers in Ghana
As part of a Google initiative to help academics and nonprofits develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques that can improve people’s lives, University at Albany Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Daphney-Stavroula Zois is working with AGRI-WEB to help smallholder farmers in Ghana develop better prediction models for their crop yields.
Understanding how Fires Impact the Carbon Cycle
UAlbany researcher Rixiang Huang, an assistant professor of environmental and sustainable engineering, is undertaking a new project that is designed to reveal how charcoal from fires decomposes over time.
Researchers Aim to Improve Coexistence Between Radio Astronomy, Wireless Networks
A new project led by UAlbany researchers Aveek Dutta and Dola Saha aims to enhance coexistence in shared frequency bands between wireless cellular networks and passive radio telescopes.