News Center Archive

UAlbany students Micaela Maywald and Michael Miller stand in front of the Science-on-a-Sphere globe at ETEC.
UAlbany Summer: Improving NOAA's Hurricane and Winter Weather Forecasts
Two atmospheric science seniors have spent their summer inside the research and operations of the nation's top weather forecasting agency.
Members of the Begley Lab including Chetna Mathur, Sophie Von Bargen, Tom Begley, Safi Eddine Khiati and Amber Hoffer.
$7.3M in New Research Grants Mark ‘RNA Day’ at UAlbany
Researchers at UAlbany’s RNA Institute are helping lead $7.3 million in new federally funded grants that will explore the toxic effects of woodsmoke on firefighters and how DNA damage that accumulates over time contributes to cancer and other aging-related diseases.
Shynelle Woroniuk with Volleyball team members on the court.
Volleyball's Woroniuk named Capital District Sports Woman of the Year
Volleyball's Woroniuk named Capital District Sports Woman of the Year
A woman wearing a yellow high-vis vest smiles as she addresses a room full of training participants.
Training a Statewide Response Network in Psychological First Aid
UAlbany's Amy Nitza is working with the New York State Office of Victim Services to train victim assistance professionals to deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive psychological first aid after mass casualty events. This "Disaster Mental Health Preparedness Training Program" is funded by a $498,000 grant awarded to UAlbany in fall 2025 and builds upon Governor Hochul’s creation of a Mass Violence Response Council to identify gaps in services and improve local and state response to such events.
Two women smile as they exit a building with a sign reading: “RISSE Refugee & Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus” hanging from the porch roof. A brick church is visible in the background.
Master of Public Health Students Support Local Community Health at RISSE
As part of their Master of Public Health course, UAlbany’s Nagifa Tabassum and Victoria Buell interned at Refugee & Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE) — a local organization with longstanding ties to UAlbany’s public health programs. We caught up with Tabassum and Buell to learn about their experiences working at RISSE.
A young woman, seated, wearing blue jeans, a navy T-shirt, and blue latex glove, works at a machine in a biology lab. The machine is made of beige plastic and features a glass window on top and a circular crank on the side. A cart full of lab supplies is in front of her.
UAlbany Summer: From bioinformatics to hands-on lab work
After shifting course from economics to biology, University at Albany junior Yasvi Sonani spent the past two summers exploring three different research labs. Her latest project at the RNA Institute focused on myotonic dystrophy type 1 — the most common cause of adult-onset muscular dystrophy.
From left, UAlbany Professor Walter E. Little, National Library Director Ilonka Matute and Guatemala Minister of Culture and Sports Luis Méndez attend the presentation of a Popol Wuj facsimile at the Luis Cardoza y Aragón National Library in Guatemala City.
UAlbany Professor Helps Reconnect Guatemala with a Foundational Maya Text
UAlbany Professor Walter Little has helped to bring the Popol Wuj, which preserves the creation stories, sacred narratives and history of the K’iche’ Maya people to libraries in Guatamala.