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An attendee holds up the WISER North American Forecasting model one-pager at the WISER annual meeting.
UAlbany, UConn Researchers Launch Initiative to Improve Power Outage Predictions and Grid Resilience
The initiative, called the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load & Damage Initiative, will create a scalable outage-prediction model to forecast system failures across the United States and Canada.
UAlbany roundtable panelists take a photo together in front of a Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences table covering.
UAlbany-Trained Broadcast Meteorologists Share Career Insights
UAlbany's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences partnered with the Journalism Program to host a roundtable discussion featuring UAlbany alumni and current students who are now working as broadcast meteorologists in the Capital Region.
Fourteen people pose for a group portrait in front of a pull-down projection screen displaying the UAlbany logo. All are smiling and six are holding white paper certificates.
Graduate Pathway for Scholars Program Welcomes 2026 Cohort
Early-career STEM researchers shared their work as part of the Graduate Pathway for Scholars program at a presentation and awards ceremony held last week. The growing program aims to encourage students who receive their PhDs in STEM fields at UAlbany to return as faculty members later in their careers.
Sara Lombardo configures cloud water instrumentation from the top of Whiteface Mountain.
5Q with Sara Lombardo: Graduate Student Earns NASA Award for Cloud Chemistry Research
Sara Lombardo has focused their time high up in the clouds since joining the University at Albany.
Meteorologist Kara Sulia focuses on a computer screen.
Computer Science Is Valuable to a Meteorologist at UAlbany. Here’s Why.
After earning meteorology degrees, conducting postdoctoral research and joining the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, she began studying CS at UAlbany.
UAlbany students celebrate the filming of The College Tour with host Alex Boylan and UAlbany mascot Damien, the Great Dane
UAlbany Featured in Season 15 of The College Tour Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
The University at Albany is featured in season 15 of The College Tour, a groundbreaking series from Emmy-nominated producers Alex Boylan and Lisa Hennessy, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
A woman in a white shirt sits at a laptop in a darkened computer lab with colorfully illuminated machines in the background.
The Short Version: What AI can, and can't, tell us about the weather
Kara Sulia of UAlbany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center talks about how artificial intelligence can help us see weather differently and what she doesn't yet trust it to understand about the complex physical forces driving the atmosphere.
Assistant Professor Weilan Zhang holds up a crop used for research in his lab.
Dozens of UAlbany Researchers Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists
The annual Stanford University report, published through Elsevier, creates a public database of top-cited researchers.