News Center Archive

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.
From left, UAlbany Professor Walter E. Little, National Library Director Ilonka Matute and Guatemala Minister of Culture and Sports Luis Méndez attend the presentation of a Popol Wuj facsimile at the Luis Cardoza y Aragón National Library in Guatemala City.
UAlbany Professor Helps Reconnect Guatemala with a Foundational Maya Text
UAlbany Professor Walter Little has helped to bring the Popol Wuj, which preserves the creation stories, sacred narratives and history of the K’iche’ Maya people to libraries in Guatamala.
The Whiteface Mountain Field Station's observatory sits atop the summit overlooking the Adirondack mountains.
State Funding Keeps Decades of Whiteface Mountain Field Station Research Data Flowing
New funding from New York State will support cloud water chemistry, air quality and weather monitoring — at nearly 5,000 feet above sea level in the heart of the Adirondacks.
A man wearing a plaid button-down shirt, clear protective goggles and blue latex gloves smiles for a portrait standing in front of a lab bench.
UAlbany Chemist Wins $2M to Build Protein Library, Target ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Protein
UAlbany's Qiang Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences, has secured $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to advance high-efficiency methods for building complex proteins. The work could illuminate rare brain diseases and open new paths for cancer treatment.
A young woman with a red shirt and cargo pants kneels on the ground next to a young woman in a gray shirt and cargo pants by a bucket and a grid of dirt at an archeological field school in Albany's Pine Bush.
UAlbany Summer: Students Dig into Pine Bush History
This summer, 10 UAlbany undergraduate students, a graduate student and several volunteers participated in an archaeological field school led by Professor and Chair of Anthropology Sean Rafferty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Christopher Wolff. They worked at a site that was the former home a colonial tavern on what was once known as the King's Highway between Albany and Schenectady.
A heatwave sunset under a bridge in Astoria Park.
UAlbany Weather Experts Share Insight on Extreme Heat Wave Hitting Northeast
A dangerous heat wave will intensify across most of the central to eastern U.S. this week.
A man wearing a white lab coat and salmon shirt smiles for a portrait in a biology lab.
UAlbany Researcher Awarded $3.9M to Study Cell Response to Wood Smoke — With Implications for Firefighter Health
Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences Tom Begley is among a team of investigators leading a five-year research project studying how cells respond to naphthalene, a harmful chemical found in wood smoke and other combustion products. Their findings will inform ways to protect firefighters from the harmful effects of smoke inhalation.