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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.
A teen boy sits on a theatre stage in front of a red curtain and writes in a notebook.
‘A Forgotten Art:’ UAlbany Writing Workshop Helps Teens Find Their Voice in the Age of AI
A love of writing drew over a dozen teens from around the Capital Region to UAlbany this summer for Discovering Your Voice, a creative writing workshop held July 13-17 and hosted by the Capital District Writing Project, part of UAlbany’s School of Education, and the New York State Writers Institute.
Dylan Repertorio stands in a suit wearing a Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute credential.
UAlbany Summer: Emergency Management Major Lands Spot in Elite Public Policy Institute
UAlbany senior Dylan Repertorio was selected for the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute.
aerial photo of UAlbany's Uptown Campus
UAlbany Helps Albany Earn Spot on LinkedIn's 'Cities on the Rise' for the Second Year in a Row
The City of Albany ranked No. 12 on LinkedIn's 2026 "Cities on the Rise" list this year, which recognized the University at Albany as one of the region's top employers, reflecting the University's central role in workforce development, alongside advancing research and helping fuel the Capital Region's continued growth.