A paper co-authored by Richard Perez of UAlbany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center won a 2025 Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award. The paper improves his method for calculating how sunlight hits tilted solar panels, making solar energy predictions more accurate and easier to use.

Paul Morgan and Eric Hu published a study in Learning and Individual Differences examining racial and ethnic differences in the risks for mathematics and science difficulties and factors that explained these risks. The differences emerged early and were strongly explained by family socioeconomic status and early academic and executive functioning.

Alex Valm received $89,700 from Colgate Palmolive Company to support his project “CLASI-FISH imaging of in vitro oral biofilms.”  Valm’s team will examine the impact of at least one oral care ingredient or formula on both healthy and diseased saliva biofilms, focusing on biofilms and organisms that cause oral disease.