News Archive

A date with a football powerhouse, renewed battles with former rivals and a host of on-campus action is all in store for the Great Danes this semester as the UAlbany fall sports season gets underway.

An anthropology professor’s research on conflict and the political collapse of Mayapan, the ancient capital city of the Maya on the Yucatán Peninsula, sheds light on link between climate and societal stability.

Approximately 2,700 first-year students, from more than 26,000 applicants, are joining the Class of 2026. In addition, approximately 1,000 transfer students and 1,520 new graduate students are joining the campus community this fall.

Even when classes are not in session, students are finding ways to gain valuable experience through a variety of summer internships, research, volunteer, and other applied learning opportunities.

UAlbany Vice President for Research and Economic Development Thenkurussi “Kesh” Kesavadas shared his vision for the Albany Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative — Albany A.I. — a $200 million public-private supercomputing initiative based out of UAlbany’s soon-to-be renovated College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) building with the The Engagement Ring.

Thirty-one UAlbany women received funding through Initiatives for Women (IFW), a program that supports professional and educational development through competitive microgrants.

The five-year grant will support the SUNY Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (SUNY LSAMP) program.

Innovate 518, a collaborative effort of incubators and accelerators from New York's Capital Region that is managed by UAlbany, has allocated its first round of Shovel Ready Tech Funding. This non-dilutive pre-seed grant will help local start-ups de-risk their companies and ultimately make their companies attractive to private investors.

After presenting at the SUNY Startup Summer School (S4) Class of 2022 Demo Day, UAlbany PhD student Alexis Weber was successful in securing one of the two top prizes of $25,000 to help the UAlbany startup company for SupreMEtric continue its efforts to bring its forensic analysis technology to market.

The three-week visit was part of a professional development training program in public financial management organized under the Zimbabwe Parliamentary Strengthening Project, implemented through Rockefeller’s Center for Policy Research.

More than 20 students from the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity participated in this summer’s NY Hope Disaster Response exercise at the State Preparedness Training Center.

A new book from UAlbany Associate Professor of History Carl Bon Tempo examines the central role of immigration in the formation and evolution of the United States.