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With the assistance of a fly-sized movie theater and treadmill, of sorts, Assistant Professor Max Turner and his students track how neurons in the fly brain react to visual stimuli, how that translates to movement and what we can learn from fruit flies in the quest to better understand the human brain and how it's impacted by disease.

UAlbany’s nearly $472M in 2024 R&D more than doubled the number the University reported in the NSF Higher Education Research and Development survey in 2023, driven largely by the return of the Department of Nanoscale Science & Engineering and its semiconductor industry R&D partnerships at the NY Creates Albany NanoTech Complex.

Alex Greer, an associate professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, has spent more than a decade studying hazard adjustments and relocation decisions in the wake of weather and climate disasters.

Weilan Zhang, an assistant professor in the University at Albany’s College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering, was awarded nearly $420,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how the accumulation of toxic “forever chemicals” in edible plants impacts food quality and safety.

The bridge fund is awarding $381,435 to projects impacted by federal funding cuts or delays in areas ranging from extreme weather decision-making to RNA research and a critical analysis of how scientific data is misused to fuel conspiracy theories about demographic trends.

New research from the Center for Health Workforce Studies found that nurses working in education make considerably less than nurses working in clinical settings. This disparity in pay is a major contributor to the shortage of nursing educators and complicates efforts to build the health workforce pipeline.

The Erie County Winter Weather Storm Scale features a public website rich with weather information to help people make informed decisions and stay safe.