News Center Archive

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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.
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5 Questions with Angel Ford: Advancing Equity in Scholarly Communication
Angel Ford, an assistant professor at CEHC, published a new paper that examines the unique challenges faced by researchers from low- and middle-income countries.
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New Study Finds Males Much Larger than Females in Early Human Ancestors
A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The research, led by University at Albany anthropologist Adam D. Gordon, appears in the July issue of the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
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UAlbany Professor’s Book Chronicles Life in Fukushima’s Nuclear Aftermath
A new book by UAlbany English Professor Thomas Bass chronicles the Japanese government’s push to resettle more people to the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone amid ongoing safety and environmental concerns, as well as the grassroots network of citizen scientists who have emerged and are working to restore health and life amid radioactivity.
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New Site Celebrates UAlbany Research, Shares Impact of Cuts
Included in the new research-focused website is a dashboard, updated weekly, that summarizes the number of federal research grants at UAlbany impacted by recent grant terminations, as well as the number of faculty and students affected by those terminations.
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UAlbany Establishes Dual Master's Degree program with Polytechnic University of Valencia
The University at Albany has signed a new agreement with Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain to launch a dual master’s degree program in Electrical Engineering. The partnership between UAlbany’s College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering and UPV’s Research Institute for Energy Engineering offers students from both institutions the opportunity to pursue a coordinated course of study and earn a degree from each university.
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UAlbany Summer: Grad Student’s Dream Takes Flight with NASA Internship
Trehan is at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center this summer, developing machine learning algorithms that can predict the habitability of exoplanets.