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Image of a dental cleaning: A woman with dark brown hair wearing dark-rimmed glasses with magnifying attachments, wearing a paper face mask and latex gloves, cleans the teeth of a reclining person in the foreground using metal dental tools.
Studying the Shape of Gum Disease: $2.3 Million Grant Aids Research into New Bacterial Target for Dental Treatments
University at Albany scientists in the departments of biology and mathematics are using RNA sequencing to study the role of dental plaque in the progression of periodontal disease.
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School of Ed Research Reveals Strategies to Retain School Bus Drivers
Amid a growing shortage of school bus drivers nationwide, new research out of the University at Albany’s Department of Educational Policy & Leadership explores what it would take to keep existing drivers in their jobs for the long haul.
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Keeping the Campus Humming: A Q&A with Michael Vadney
Some 425 physical plant workers — including carpenters, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, painters, masons, grounds crew and custodians — are charged with maintaining UAlbany's 500-acre campus. Interim Director of Physical Plant Michael Vadney tells us what that's like.
Illustration depicts mammals that have roamed Southern California both past and present. Animals that appear in color are alive today. Animals that appear in black and white have gone extinct.
Study Reveals How Prehistoric Humans Simplified the World’s Food Webs
Research conducted with the help of a University at Albany anthropologist has revealed the cascading effects that humans have had on mammal declines and their food webs over the last 130,000 years, a new study in the journal Science shows.
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UAlbany Conducts Largest Study on COVID-19 Symptoms & Deaths Among U.S. Healthcare Workers
Healthcare workers who died of COVID-19 in the early waves of the pandemic were disproportionately male, over 50 years old and of Black or Asian descent.
PIRE students stand in front of a building at the National Central University in Taiwan.
UAlbany Graduate Students Reflect on PIRE Experience in New Paper
The U.S.-Taiwan PIRE project was launched in 2015 to advance research in early warning detection and disaster response around extreme storms.
Professors Brian Tang and Kristen Corbosiero stand next to a globe display in the "Science On a Sphere" room at ETEC.
Atmospheric Scientists Lead $695K NSF Study to Explore Downshear Reformation of Tropical Storms
The three-year project will use observational data, combined with advanced computer model simulations, to explore this poorly understood process.