News Archive

Students view a presentation inside ETEC during an FIC workshop.
NYS Police, UAlbany Bring New Forensic Investigation Center School to Campus
The Forensic Investigation Center (FIC) School launched this semester and is open to undergraduate and graduate students from local institutions.
Lednev and two generations of his student researchers accept awards at the Great Scientific Exchange conference in Covington, Ky.
Chemist Igor Lednev Presented with Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy
The award is presented by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies to recognize significant advancements in the field of applied Raman spectroscopy.
Six people stand smiling in front of an RNA Institute banner with three text headings. The headings read: "College of Arts and Sciences", "The RNA Institute" and "The world within reach". The people pictured include UAlbany faculty, staff and graduate students.
UAlbany Researchers Awarded $1.4M to Identify RNAs Linked to Cancer and Bacterial Infections
Research will yield new tools for studying wobble uridines within cells, which could support the development of new antibiotics and cancer detection approaches
A fountain is lit with green lights, and seen in front of a building with glowing yellow lights from its windows
RNA Institute Awarded $2.5M from NIH to Advance ‘RNA Rescue’ in Fight Against Myotonic Dystrophy
The grant will be used to advance research aimed at finding a cure for the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy, which impacts about 1 in 2,100 New Yorkers.
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Developing New Technologies to Streamline Forensic Analysis
After presenting at the SUNY Startup Summer School (S4) Class of 2022 Demo Day, UAlbany PhD student Alexis Weber was successful in securing one of the two top prizes of $25,000 to help the UAlbany startup company for SupreMEtric continue its efforts to bring its forensic analysis technology to market.
A group of female students sit and stand in front of physics equipment in a lab at UAlbany.
Eureka! Program Powers Girls to Succeed in STEM Fields
A nationally recognized endeavor by Girls Inc. that provides hands-on opportunities in STEM, the Capital Region Girls Inc. Eureka! program has 57 girls from a number of different schools attending UAlbany this summer to learn about atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, women’s studies, geography, planning, and sustainability, chemistry, ChoreoPhysics and biology.
Engineering students at UAlbany work indoors on a rudimentary tensiometer device made of wood with a metallic gear at the top.
Engineering Students Take on Chemistry Challenge
Students in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently took on the challenge of building force tensiometers – a device capable of accurately testing the strength properties of new materials – for the Department of Chemistry's new materials chemistry wing in ETEC.
Curling blue and brown strands of genetic riboswitches.
In Published Study, Chen Lab Elevates Understanding of Genetic Expression
An RNA Institute professor and his two lab mates aid in finding a key to how changes in RNA structure occur and switch genetic expression from ‘on’ to ‘off,’