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Eureka! Program Powers Girls to Succeed in STEM Fields
A nationally recognized endeavor by Girls Inc. that provides hands-on opportunities in STEM, the Capital Region Girls Inc. Eureka! program has 57 girls from a number of different schools attending UAlbany this summer to learn about atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, women’s studies, geography, planning, and sustainability, chemistry, ChoreoPhysics and biology.
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Michele J. Grimm Named Dean of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Michele J. Grimm, a bioengineer at Michigan State University, has been named the new dean of the University at Albany’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) after a national search.
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Education Abroad Emerges from a COVID-19 Hiatus with 20+ Offerings
After 80 distinct study abroad opportunities vanished for two years, this summer the program is off to a promising restart.
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Bank of America Support Helps Summer STEM Program Grow
Monday was the kickoff for the Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP) Summer Institute at UAlbany, designed to expose students who are economically disadvantaged or are underrepresented in STEM fields to college programs that lead to careers in the sciences and health care spaces, and technical and licensed professions.
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UAlbany Launches New Degrees in Environmental & Sustainable Engineering
UAlbany's Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is taking added new master’s and PhD degree programs focused on solving critical environmental problems from local through global scales,.
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UAlbany Scientists Hail Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN
An international team of 250 scientists and engineers from over 35 institutions from the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and South Korea, including University at Albany Assistant Professor Cecilia Levy and Associate Professor Matthew Szydagis has announced that the the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has passed startup operations and delivered first results.
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Surviving PTSD: A Q&A with Virginia Eubanks
This week Eubanks published a personal essay in The New York Times Magazine about community violence, PTSD and caregiving, all stemming from a brutal attack on her partner in 2015. She is working on a memoir about the experience.