Excitement Grows for Return of In-Person Commencement for Classes of 2020 & 2021
We caught up with two new graduates, one from the Class of 2020 and one from the Class of 2021, to ask about their commencement plans and experiences at UAlbany.
UAlbany Honors Dedicated Employees
Last Friday, the University honored more than 100 employees who reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or 60 years of service between July 1, 2019 and Sept. 1, 2020.
RNA Institute Summer Program Local High Schooler Advances to International Science Competition
One of the youngest members of the RNA Institute's 2020 Summer Bioinformatics program, high school senior Cristina DeMeo, put the skills she learned to highly mature scientific use, creating an award-winning project on the most common form of motor neuron disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Study looks at how businesses cope with “COVID fatigue”
A Massry School of Business study, funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, finds changing attitudes to the COVID-19 pandemic can result in risky behavior, and suggests ways businesses can manage and aid employees.
CEAS Faculty Garner CAREER Awards for Advancing Online Education and Cybersecurity
At UAlbany’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS), two faculty members have joined the esteemed ranks of CAREER Award winners, as they lead projects aimed at improving and securing online learning environments: Assistant professors of Computer Science Amirreza Masoumzadeh and Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi. With their respective grants, CEAS now has seen eight faculty members receive CAREER awards, including researchers in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Forensic Chemist’s Start-Up Receives Support from the National Science Foundation
Department of Chemistry professor Igor Lednev is now one step closer to helping law enforcement catch violent criminals.
Whose Welfare? An Economist Assesses the Cost to Society of Corporate Collusion
Cuicui Chen of Economics and three colleagues assess how corporate collusion in environmental standard avoidance can aid companies’ welfare while damaging society's.