News Center Archive

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.
The Whiteface Mountain Field Station's observatory sits atop the summit overlooking the Adirondack mountains.
State Funding Keeps Decades of Whiteface Mountain Field Station Research Data Flowing
New funding from New York State will support cloud water chemistry, air quality and weather monitoring — at nearly 5,000 feet above sea level in the heart of the Adirondacks.
A man wearing a plaid button-down shirt, clear protective goggles and blue latex gloves smiles for a portrait standing in front of a lab bench.
UAlbany Chemist Wins $2M to Build Protein Library, Target ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Protein
UAlbany's Qiang Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences, has secured $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to advance high-efficiency methods for building complex proteins. The work could illuminate rare brain diseases and open new paths for cancer treatment.
A young woman with a red shirt and cargo pants kneels on the ground next to a young woman in a gray shirt and cargo pants by a bucket and a grid of dirt at an archeological field school in Albany's Pine Bush.
UAlbany Summer: Students Dig into Pine Bush History
This summer, 10 UAlbany undergraduate students, a graduate student and several volunteers participated in an archaeological field school led by Professor and Chair of Anthropology Sean Rafferty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Christopher Wolff. They worked at a site that was the former home a colonial tavern on what was once known as the King's Highway between Albany and Schenectady.