UAlbany’s Kurunthachalam Kannan served on a National Academy of Sciences committee to develop recommendations for the clinical follow-up and care of people exposed to contaminated drinking water after two accidental fuel releases in 2021 in Hawaii. Nearly 93,000 people may have been exposed after the releases at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on the island of O’ahu.

Walid Redjem received a five-year, $588,285 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support his project, "Hybrid Continuous-Discrete Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Silicon Photonics." CAREER awards support early-career faculty who combine research with education and long-term scientific impact.

ChangHwan Lee received $1.86 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how transcription misregulation drives diseases including cancer and infertility. The work will explore cellular mechanisms that regulate dynamic transcription with a special focus on the “Notch” signaling pathway, and how Notch-driven transcription shapes stem cell development.