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Victoria Rizzo smiles and speaks with three students outside on UAlbany’s Downtown Campus.
Victoria Rizzo Named Director of UAlbany’s Center for Healthy Aging
University at Albany’s Victoria Rizzo, senior vice dean of the College of Integrated Health Sciences and director of the School of Social Welfare, will lead UAlbany’s new Center for Healthy Aging as its inaugural director.
A man with short gray hair wearing a tan suit and gold tie with red stripes smiles for a portrait against a black backdrop.
UAlbany Professor Authors Definitive Book on Private Higher Education Around the World
Daniel Levy, a SUNY Distinguished Professor in UAlbany's Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, has authored a new book titled, "A World of Private Higher Education," a definitive account on the private higher education sector, which accounts for one-third of the world’s 200 million higher education enrollments.
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Four Faculty Members Win SUNY-IBM AI Research Grants
The research grants will advance the efficiency and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence systems, and UAlbany was one of two SUNY Research Centers to receive four grants this year out of a total of 14 projects funded systemwide.
UAlbany student Kevin Reyes, center, joins Dr. Shihab Al-Daffaie and teammates Ainhoa Castano, Diana Ionica and George Lin to celebrate their award at Eindhoven Semicon Summer School. (Photo provided)
Students Gain Insight into Global Tech at Eindhoven Semicon Summer School
UAlbany College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE) students Kevin Reyes, William Grice and Jadyn Lee joined with sixty students from around the world to learn directly from leading specialists about the evolution of the semiconductor and photonics industries at the Eindhoven Semicon Summer School in August in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Young students watch a robotic dog in action at STEM and Nanotechnology Family Day at ETEC in February, 2024.
STEM and Nanotechnology Family Day Highlights NANOvember 2024
CNSE is welcoming students from throughout the Capital Region on Saturday, November 23, to STEM and Nanotechnology Family Day, providing a glimpse of cutting edge science and technology that is being developed right here in upstate New York. The event marks the culmination of NANOvember, the month-long celebration of how nanotechnology is making a difference in our lives now and in the future.
Fire engulfs the Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Ulster County.
New York State Mesonet, Department of Environmental Conservation Partner on New Fire Danger Rating System
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new real-time weather data tool to help inform New Yorkers when there is an increased risk of wildfires.
A man wearing khaki pants and a plaid button down shirt stands, smiling, in a brightly lit lab next to a DNA/RNA sequencing machine. The machine consists of two large metal cube-shaped containers with bottled of clear liquid on top of one, and a digital panel on the other.
UAlbany Chemist Receives Federal Support to Advance Tool for Complete RNA Sequencing
Shenglong Zhang, associate professor of Chemistry, received two Small Business Technology Transfer grants from the National Institutes of Health. The grants were jointly awarded to the University and UAlbany spinoff company DirectSeq Biosciences, Inc., which Zhang directs as founder and president.