News Center Archive

A damaged home with "do not demo" signage on it following Hurricane Katrina.
5 Questions with Alex Greer: Improving the Home Buyout Process
Greer, an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, has spent the past decade studying hazard adjustments and relocation decisions in the wake of weather and climate disasters.
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School of Social Welfare PhD Student Explores Barriers to Health Care for Older Adults
As a student researcher affiliated with UAlbany's Center for Healthy Aging, Yanjun Dong is working to identify and address gaps in the U.S. healthcare system that prevent older adults from receiving proper care.
The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) distributes more foreign aid than any other country in the world.
Appe Discusses How Nonprofits Can Tackle Funding Gaps in 'The Conversation'
The U.S. government is the largest provider of foreign assistance in the world, doling out $68 billion annually. With USAID facing significant cuts under the Trump administration, Rockefeller College Associate Professor Susan Appe writes in "The Conversation" how nonprofits can fill the funding gaps that are likely ahead.
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Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications
The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.
University at Albany Department of Nanoscale Science & Engineering Professor Mengbing Huang and doctoral student Sahyadri Anil Patil demonstrate a reliable ion implantation cladding method for sapphire optics fiber.
CNSE Researcher Explores Using Sapphires for Fiber Optics Sensing
CNSE research Mengbing Huang is exploring new technologies for fiber optics sensing in harsh environments. Utilizing single-crystal sapphire fibers, Huang is exploring the development of optic sensors that could provide a solution for optic sensing in extremely harsh environments, such as in nuclear reactors or aerospace rockets.
Five people - two men and three women - pose together, smiling, for a portrait. They are standing in a room with geometric-printed wallpaper and carpeting. All are wearing badges on lanyards to signify participation in the Society for Social Work and Research annual meeting.
Q&A with Cheng Ren: Leveraging AI to Advance Housing Justice
Ren received the 2025 Outstanding Social Work Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society for Social Work and Research for his dissertation “Not All Eviction Cases Are Alike: How Do Contextual and Individual Characteristics Matter?" Here, Ren sheds light on his dissertation and current research, and the importance of studying evictions to advance housing justice.
A man wearing a plaid button-down shirt and khaki pants poses, smiling, next to a lab bench covered in various pieces of chemistry equipment including pipettes, latex gloves, and plastic bottles containing clear liquids.
UAlbany Chemist Funded to Advance Search for RNA’s ‘True’ Sequence
Shenglong Zhang is breaking new ground in understanding how RNA shapes health, with a focus on sequencing RNA modifications that give rise to disease. Zhang recently received $1.6 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute to advance his lab’s pioneering technology for sequencing RNA and its modifications.