Living in Languages Colloquium

Living in Languages Colloquium 2024 flier

The Departments of English and Languages, Literatures and Cultures 6th annual Living in Languages Colloquium will be Tuesday and Wednesday February 20 – 21, 2024 in Zoom. Focused on issues of “translation” broadly understood, in a literal but also expanded sense that addresses not only questions of reading and ideology, nor only core theorists whose focus on this topic remains vital, but also translation understood as exile, displacement geographical and linguistic, violence and assimilation in cultural and literary registers, translation in interpretive and creative modes, translations of loss, as well as translation in colonial and post- and decolonial frames, keynote speaker Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies, UMass Amherst, will speak on “Intent vs. Impact: Translating Race and Racism” 2/20/24, 12:00 noon.  FlierProgram.

Register herehttps://forms.gle/3Tv9iwQFzPqDuSAUA.   FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  (Zoom link sent to registrants closer to the event date).  Visit https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/ for previous colloquium materials.  Thanks to our Living in Languages Colloquium Committee: Andrew Brooks, Rumi Coller-Takahashi, Nicole Cosentino, Zahra Hamdani, Minji Huh, Michelle Monaco, Annika Nerf, William Pattee, Yolande Schutter, Aspasia Sparages, and Sarah Zahed.

 

New Frontiers to Health

Scientists can identify the origins of diseases by studying how RNA turns genes on and off, potentially leading to innovative disease treatments and possible cures.

Biological Science grad student Marissa Louis in RNA lab

The RNA Institute offers unique opportunities to researchers and trainees for collaboration and interdisciplinary research. We have more than 50 faculty working to understand the role of RNA in fundamental biological processes, developing RNA as a tool for science and harnessing this knowledge to improve human health. 

The RNA Institute is more than just a modern research facility. We are a collection of diverse and talented researchers and laboratories united by a common goal in understanding the role of RNA across different fields, including biology, chemistry, biomedical sciences, physics, and nanobiosciences. RNA forms the basis of our research, it is the common element that we study, build, modify and analyze as well as the building blocks that we use to construct tools, reporters, and therapies.

Our RNA Training Programs provide a multi-disciplinary curriculum with a focus on RNA and its health-related benefits. We develop our future science leaders by providing trainees from high school to post-doc students and beyond with comprehensive access to faculty, techniques, and collaborations within Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, and Nanobiosciences. Our training includes the Doctoral RNA Training Program and the Undergraduate Summer Fellowship.
 

Ken Halvorsen and student researcher of the RNA Institute

One of The RNA Institute's strengths is the diversity of our faculty's research and range of disciplines. However, the diversity of our faculty and trainees lags behind the University at Albany's undergraduate population and surrounding communities. In line with UAlbany's mission to ensure that diversity, in its people and in its ideas, drives excellence in everything that it does, the Institute launched a multi-pronged approach to increase diversity and support inclusivity at the Institute and across STEM disciplines.
 

The RNA Institute hosted its inaugural RNA Day, inviting local students from the New York State’s Science Technology Entry Program (STEP) and Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region
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