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SUNY Elevates Five UAlbany Faculty Members to Rank of Distinguished Professor
The title ranks above full professor and is conferred by the SUNY board of trustees to faculty who have made significant contributions to research and scholarship in their respective fields, garnering national or international prominence.
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The Short Version: AI, photography and your lyin' eyes
The spring semester season finale of The Short Version podcasts features Danny Goodwin, professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, exploring our foolhardy pursuit of truth from images "that can only lie" — and why it's wrong to blame photography for the ways humans deceive themselves with technology.
Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Michitake Aso. (UAlbany Digital Media)
Aso Earns ACLS Fellowship for Research on Agent Orange’s Legacy
University at Albany historian Michitake Aso has been awarded a 2026 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his research on the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
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Ask an Expert: When Does Spring Actually Start?
June Wang of the New York State Mesonet answers today’s question.
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Sabotage by design: Protecting critical infrastructure from hidden hardware threats
UAlbany researchers are pioneering new ways to find and neutralize hardware trojans, the insidiously small security threats that may already be embedded in critical infrastructure like the electric grid.
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UAlbany Atmospheric Scientist Contributes to International Study on Contrail Formation
In a new study, co-authored by Fangqun Yu of UAlbany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, a team of researchers found that modern “lean-burn” aircraft engines still produce the conditions necessary for contrail formation.
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Ask an Expert: What is El Niño and why is everyone talking about it?
Atmospheric Science Professor Paul Roundy studies how interactions between the tropical ocean and atmosphere influence global weather, including El Niño.