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A nationally recognized endeavor by Girls Inc. that provides hands-on opportunities in STEM, the Capital Region Girls Inc. Eureka! program has 57 girls from a number of different schools attending UAlbany this summer to learn about atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, women’s studies, geography and planning, chemistry, ChoreoPhysics and biology.

Michele J. Grimm, a bioengineer at Michigan State University, has been named the new dean of the University at Albany’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) after a national search.

After 80 distinct study abroad opportunities vanished for two years, this summer the program is off to a promising restart.

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.

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,.

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.

This week Eubanks published a personal essay in The New York Times Magazine about community violence, PTSD and caregiving, all stemming from a brutal attack on her partner in 2015. She is working on a memoir about the experience.

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.

The new academic programs will help shape future leaders in emergency management, homeland security and emerging technologies.

UAlbany welcomed González-Cruz this month as a new Professor of Empire Innovation at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.

The National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop included faculty from around 30 universities and 25 representatives from large private sector companies.

University at Albany staff in Advancement and Communications and Marketing have again won international recognition for excellence in marketing, special events, design, donor relations, digital media and writing.