News Center Archive

UAlbany PhD student John Bradburn sits by a large telescope in an observatory as Assistant Professor Mustafa Aksoy stands in the background
A UAlbany Summer: NASA Technologist
An Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student is spending this summer working as a visiting technologist for NASA, part of a prestigious fellowship program awarded to fewer than 60 people per year who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.
Two children side by side wearing masks with school backpacks.
UAlbany’s Third Annual School Safety and Preparedness Summit to Focus on Post-Pandemic Education and Mental Health
A virtual panel discussion will focus on the psychological well-being of students, teachers and staff of all ages when schools and colleges return to primarily in-person learning this fall.
6 HS students gather around a pyramid of red drink cups in a classroom
Girls Inc. Eureka! Imparts Knowledge with Fun to Young STEM Students
For the fourth straight summer, the College of Arts & Sciences hosts Girls Inc. Eureka! program, with faculty from seven UAlbany departments imparting a love of STEM subjects to girls from the Capital Region.
Photo from desk inside GlobalFoundries headquarters.
UAlbany and GlobalFoundries Announce New Education Partnership
GlobalFoundries employees have a new pathway to enhance their education through a partnership that launched this summer.
An unseen adult checks the temperature of young student in a facemask, as other students line up behind her.
Study: Minority Students Faced Greater Barriers to In-School Instruction During Pandemic
UAlbany researchers study finds that white students were provided in-person instruction 31 percent of the time while just 6 percent of black students were provided in-person instruction during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A smiling Sujata Murty, in a gray and white striped sweater, stands in front of several large, underwater photos of a diver near coral formations
Oceanographer Shares Her Research through Artistic Expression
Sujata Murty, an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, partnered with a composite photographer to visualize her dives in the Indonesian Seas and Pacific Ocean.
MIRA winners Qiang Zhang, left, and Morgan Sammons pose along a wall and in a garden
Two Cellular Scientists Rewarded as ‘Early Stage Investigators’
Two UAlbany scientists making strides in their independent research have received robust financial encouragement from the NIH to make critically important breakthroughs in the effort to reveal cellular causes of disease and to create novel therapeutics.