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Chemistry Professor Honored with Prestigious American Chemical Society Award
UAlbany’s Marina A. Petrukhina has won the 2026 George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry, an American Chemical Society award that recognizes outstanding research achievements and success in training the next generation of chemists.
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Gov. Hochul Announces $50M Life Sciences Expansion for RNA Institute research
The Life Sciences Research Building, which is home to cutting-edge labs where researchers from the RNA Institute blend bench science with AI to help accelerate the development of RNA-based treatments for deadly diseases, will expand by 20,000 s.f.
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New Podcast Spotlights Short Talks on Big News and Big Ideas
The Short Version is a weekly podcast from UAlbany's Office of Communications and Marketing featuring brief conversations with the makers, knowers and doers on campus. Look for new episodes every Wednesday on Simplecast, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Chemistry Student Earns International Recognition for Doctoral Research
Yikun Zhu recently received the Crystals Best PhD Thesis Award from the open-access publisher MDPI for her dissertation work at the University at Albany. She also earned UAlbany’s 2024-25 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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Celebrating Early Career Researchers Across the Life Sciences
The 16th annual Life Sciences Research Symposium brought together research trainees from across three UAlbany colleges, and the Capital Region, to share their latest findings, connect with peers and explore opportunities for networking with senior faculty.
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UAlbany Chemists Design Candidate Drug Against Diabetes
Researchers from UAlbany and NYU Grossman School of Medicine have found a way to block a key cellular pathway known to drive chronic inflammation and impaired wound healing in people with diabetes. The breakthrough could offer a new therapeutic option for stopping the harmful effects of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the source.
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Junior Earns Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service
UAlbany Junior Parmesh Thakoordial was recently named a recipient of the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, a prestigious national program created by former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky to support students committed to careers in the public sphere.
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Nobel Explainer: UAlbany Chemist Jeremy Feldblyum on Metal-Organic Frameworks
UAlbany's Jeremy Feldblyum is an expert in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — versatile molecular materials that can be used to harvest water from the air, capture CO2, store toxic gases and catalyze chemical reactions — which were at the center of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced this week. Feldblyum shares insights on the importance of MOFs and the significance of this year's Nobel nod.