UAlbany in the News

by Greta Petry (April 8, 2005)

David O. Carpenter, an environmental toxicologist in the School of Public Health, was quoted in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle March 23 in an article about harmful chemicals showing up in household dust. Health impairments from the chemicals tested may include hormone disruption, allergies, cancer, and reproductive and developmental disorders. Carpenter was quoted as saying, "For all of these chemicals, animal studies show clear harmful effects." He added that while evidence of harm to humans is only strongly suggestive, "where there's so much smoke, there's certainly a fire." Seventy homes in seven states were tested for chemicals, and the results were reported by the international advocacy group Clean Product Action.

The PR Newswire carried an article March 23, noting that New York State has awarded UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering a $750,000 Technology Transfer Incentive Program Grant to work with DayStar Technologies to develop optimized substrate templates for CIGS solar cell applications. The award was made possible through the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR's) Technology Transfer Incentive Program.