All Highlights

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.

Department Chair of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, Dr. Yanna Liang, discusses her research on Phytoremediation and Destruction of PFAS — the use of plants to remove PFAS constituents from contaminated soils- on the podcast channel, Disrupting PFAS with Jeff Hale.

UAlbany researcher Rixiang Huang, an assistant professor of environmental and sustainable engineering, is undertaking a new project that is designed to reveal how charcoal from fires decomposes over time.

Researchers from UAlbany recently took part in SUNY Startup Summer School, where they were able to pitch their technologies to successful entrepreneurs and executives for a chance to earn a Technology Accelerator Fund investment.

Supportive members of the State Legislature, including Senators Michelle Hinchey and Neil Breslin and Assemblymember Patricia Fahy, visited campus to view the latest progress of ETEC’s construction.

The Sustainable Futures Conference, co-sponsored by UAlbany, features more than a dozen international and national and local speakers, workshops and informational sessions, and a Youth Congress on Climate Justice.

Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, University at Albany faculty are finding creative ways to work with valued international partners to further UAlbany’s strategic goal of internationalization.

Construction at UAlbany’s $180 million ETEC complex is in full swing this semester.