News Center Archive

Professor Paul Roundy stands next to NASA headquarters at the American Meteorological Society annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
DAES Professor Helps Students Leap to Scientists
A quick review of Paul Roundy’s Google Scholar profile will show you thousands of citations in peer-reviewed academic journals that are advancing the world’s atmospheric and climate research.
Photo of one of the many complexes bought out in Harris County, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey.
Disaster Scientists Explore Hurricane Harvey Home Buyout Program
Given the impacts of more frequent extreme weather on homeowners around the globe, state and local government agencies are turning to voluntary home buyout programs for relief.
Image of road closed outside UAlbany COVID-19 testing site.
UAlbany Hosts Upstate New York’s First State-Run COVID-19 Mobile Testing Site
CEAS senior Ian Walter assembles a three-piece medical face shield.
UAlbany Uses 3D Printers to Help Meet the COVID-19 PPE Shortage
As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in New York, students, faculty and staff at UAlbany are taking initiative to help meet shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospital personnel and other first responders across the state.
Photo of VOST control room.
UAlbany VOST Students Turn to Social Media in Times of Crisis
Earlier this month, a small group of students on UAlbany’s Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST) gathered in their “situation room” to watch New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s press conference that would soon change the way public higher education is delivered this semester.
CEHC/SPH virtual town halls will run on Monday nights at 7 p.m.
CEHC and SPH Deans Partner to Host Virtual Town Halls on COVID-19
ALBANY, N.Y.
UAlbany's WNYT students take photo in studio.
Two DAES Students Doing Double Duty as TV Weather Reporters
The Capital Region’s local NBC news affiliate has added more Great Danes to its “First Warning Weather Team.”