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Sam Jackson, assistant professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity.
Far-Right Extremism in America: A Q&A with Sam Jackson
Jackson, an assistant professor at CEHC, studies far-right extremism in America, including anti-government groups and issues and responses related to online extremism.
Students seated together in a lecture hall smile and applaud
Bank of America Support Helps Summer STEM Program Grow
Monday was the kickoff for the Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP) Summer Institute at UAlbany, designed to expose students who are economically disadvantaged or are underrepresented in STEM fields to college programs that lead to careers in the sciences and health care spaces, and technical and licensed professions.
A researcher holds a branch with a pine cone that was part of a controlled burn.
UAlbany Launches New Degrees in Environmental & Sustainable Engineering
UAlbany's Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is taking added new master’s and PhD degree programs focused on solving critical environmental problems from local through global scales,.
A group of scientists and movers stand near a large cylinder dark matter tank inside of a lab room.
UAlbany Scientists Hail Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN
An international team of 250 scientists and engineers from over 35 institutions from the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and South Korea, including University at Albany Assistant Professor Cecilia Levy and Associate Professor Matthew Szydagis has announced that the the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has passed startup operations and delivered first results.
A group of faculty stand in front of the UAlbany Minerva logo in the ETEC building with recognition awards in hand.
UAlbany Honors its Inventors
UAlbany hosted its first Inventors Recognition Ceremony at ETEC, honoring faculty, students and staff who have submitted their first invention disclosure, their first patent application, or have been granted their first patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2019 through 2022.
Jorge E. González-Cruz sits at his desk inside ETEC.
5 Questions with Faculty: Jorge E. González-Cruz
UAlbany welcomed González-Cruz this month as a new Professor of Empire Innovation at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.
Rendering of the new entry to the Engineering and Applied Sciences building at UAlbany.
Albany AI: Transforming the Academic Landscape
With the goal of becoming the first university-based computer to reach a quintillion computations per second, Albany AI will empower university and industry researchers to harness massive data sets to better understand how to automate complex operations, and create teaching and research collaborations with faculty in all disciplines.