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The Dr. Hazel Dukes Fellowship honors the legacy of Hazel N. Dukes, a pioneering civil rights advocate and longtime leader of the NAACP who advanced racial equity, voting rights, educational access and economic justice across New York and the nation.

The initiative, called the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load & Damage Initiative, will create a scalable outage-prediction model to forecast system failures across the United States and Canada.

Jason Corace recently spoke with WTEN’s Anthony Krolikowski on “Bits & Boards,” a podcast focused on the Capital Region gaming scene, about his vision for the programs.

Marck Jeanty, a 2025 graduate of Spring Valley High School, is pursuing a degree in cybersecurity in UAlbany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity. He traces his interest in the field to a high school cyber club, where he first learned to build websites and defend against basic attacks.

UAlbany’s nearly $472M in 2024 R&D more than doubled the number the University reported in the NSF Higher Education Research and Development survey in 2023, driven largely by the return of the Department of Nanoscale Science & Engineering and its semiconductor industry R&D partnerships at the NY Creates Albany NanoTech Complex.

The NY Hope exercise, hosted at the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, prepares students for future careers in emergency management.

The seven new projects are funded through the joint UAlbany-IBM Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems and will use a cluster of IBM Spyre Accelerator cards for projects ranging from the search for mutational signatures important to diagnosing cancer to the impact of methane emissions on Earth’s climate.

Alex Greer, an associate professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, has spent more than a decade studying hazard adjustments and relocation decisions in the wake of weather and climate disasters.