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ALBANY, NY (July 15, 2022) –Temilayo Adeyeye and Tabassum Insaf, both based at the New York State Department of Health, are using state-of-the-art tools— including satellite data from NASA— to assess the impact of climate and air quality in communities where air monitoring does not take place. Their work has helped modify warnings for heat-related illness in NY and continues to provide data that informs public health policy and practice.

Shaiza Bushra is a Master of Public Health (MPH) student who moved to the United States from Pakistan in 2019. She will be graduating with her MPH in Public Health Practice this August, achieving her goal to complete her graduate degree in the United States.

UAlbany hosted its first Inventors Recognition Ceremony at ETEC, honoring faculty, students and staff who have submitted their first invention disclosure, their first patent application, or have been granted their first patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2019 through 2022.

A collection of the University at Albany's School of Public Health research from June 2022.

With the goal of becoming the first university-based computer to reach a quintillion computations per second, Albany AI will empower university and industry researchers to harness massive data sets to better understand how to automate complex operations, and create teaching and research collaborations with faculty in all disciplines.

ALBANY, N.Y. (June 23, 2022) - Faculty in our Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior partner with government agencies, organizations, foundations, and businesses to develop, enhance, and evaluate important programs, and also serve as experts for community groups.

The University at Albany today began a new era of teaching and research with the launch of Albany AI, a $200 million public-private supercomputing initiative based out of UAlbany’s soon-to-be-renovated College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building. Buoyed by $75 million in state funding to complete the transformation of the former Albany High School into a state-of-the-art engineering college and fund the construction of a supercomputer, the Albany Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative (Albany AI) will significantly expand New York’s capacity in this major emerging field.

Mercy Adeola Best recently graduated from the School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Public Health Practice. The biggest challenge Best faced while earning her degree was the death of her sister Grace, who passed away from a seizure. She was the reason Best chose to complete the internship component of her academic program in epilepsy awareness.