News Center Archive

UAlbany students Micaela Maywald and Michael Miller stand in front of the Science-on-a-Sphere globe at ETEC.
UAlbany Summer: Improving NOAA's Hurricane and Winter Weather Forecasts
Two atmospheric science seniors have spent their summer inside the research and operations of the nation's top weather forecasting agency.
A portrait of UAlbany physicist Vivek Jain wearing a brown jacket and blue shirt.
5 Questions with Vivek Jain: Unlocking the Mysteries of Neutrinos
UAlbany physicist Vivek Jain is part of DUNE, an international experiment studying neutrinos. He works on the project’s Near Detector, which will measure particles before they travel 800 miles through the Earth to South Dakota.
Members of the Begley Lab including Chetna Mathur, Sophie Von Bargen, Tom Begley, Safi Eddine Khiati and Amber Hoffer.
$7.3M in New Research Grants Mark ‘RNA Day’ at UAlbany
Researchers at UAlbany’s RNA Institute are helping lead $7.3 million in new federally funded grants that will explore the toxic effects of woodsmoke on firefighters and how DNA damage that accumulates over time contributes to cancer and other aging-related diseases.
Shynelle Woroniuk with Volleyball team members on the court.
Volleyball's Woroniuk named Capital District Sports Woman of the Year
Volleyball's Woroniuk named Capital District Sports Woman of the Year
a red-headed man in a black jacket
5 Questions with Blaine Horton, assistant professor of management
Blaine Horton’s research focus is management science and social psychology, but his background is in literature and the arts.
A woman wearing a yellow high-vis vest smiles as she addresses a room full of training participants.
Training a Statewide Response Network in Psychological First Aid
UAlbany's Amy Nitza is working with the New York State Office of Victim Services to train victim assistance professionals to deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive psychological first aid after mass casualty events. This "Disaster Mental Health Preparedness Training Program" is funded by a $498,000 grant awarded to UAlbany in fall 2025 and builds upon Governor Hochul’s creation of a Mass Violence Response Council to identify gaps in services and improve local and state response to such events.
A young woman, seated, wearing blue jeans, a navy T-shirt, and blue latex glove, works at a machine in a biology lab. The machine is made of beige plastic and features a glass window on top and a circular crank on the side. A cart full of lab supplies is in front of her.
UAlbany Summer: From bioinformatics to hands-on lab work
After shifting course from economics to biology, University at Albany junior Yasvi Sonani spent the past two summers exploring three different research labs. Her latest project at the RNA Institute focused on myotonic dystrophy type 1 — the most common cause of adult-onset muscular dystrophy.