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UAlbany Alum Omar Yaghi ’85 Shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
University at Albany alum Omar M. Yaghi (Chemistry, 1985) has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing the honor with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne.
'25-26 RNA Fellow Cohort Picture with CAS Dean, Directors of the RNA Fellow Program, RNA Fellows, and their mentors
The 11th Cohort of RNA Fellows Marks New Opportunities for Collaboration and Discovery
Pictured: The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Jeanette Altarriba, Directors of the RNA Fellows program Drs. Thomas Begley & Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, RNA Fellows, and their mentors.
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UAlbany Celebrates College Tour, Campus Ballroom Reopening
UAlbany rolled out the purple carpet Thursday night for the world premiere of its episode of "The College Tour" and the grand reopening of the newly renovated Campus Center Ballroom. Students, faculty, staff and alumni filled the refreshed space — now complete with upgraded AV technology and a modern look — for a Hollywood-style celebration that included themed mocktails, a photo booth and a panel discussion with student stars from the episode.
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Undergrad Research Project Develops Haptics to Assist the Visually Impaired
UAlbany students developed wearable haptic devices that provide navigation assistance to the visually impaired as part of the College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering’s 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
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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 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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Great Danes Honored as America East Presidential Scholars
Eleven UAlbany graduating seniors were named America East Presidential Scholars. The award recognizes student-athletes who earned a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher and earned their undergraduate degree in 2024-25.
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UAlbany Chemist Awarded $2 Million to Advance Computational Simulations for RNA Analysis
Alan Chen received $2 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop new ways to model the structure and function of RNA in 3D at the atomic level. The research aims to advance RNA-based biosensing and nanotechnology and will help solve longstanding puzzles in RNA structural biology.