Home
News & Events

UAlbany Researchers in the News

UAlbany Research Center Chief lands grants from NIH, NSF

RNA Institute Director Paul Agris has obtained more than $3.3 million in federal funding to study drug-resistant bacteria and cancer treatments.

In the Albany Times Union
Weather eye for polar vortex

UAlbany researchers monitor conditions for return of polar vortex this winter

In the Albany Times Union
UAlbany research team obtains $1.34million National Science Foundation award to connect classrooms

The National Science Foundation awarded $1.34 million to a University at Albany research team for its work in developing a learning structure aimed at connecting classrooms across America and internationally

In the Albany Times Union
Storm Spotters Awed By "Supercell Thunderstorm"

UAlbany faculty members gather data at harm's edge

In the Albany Times Union
Inaugural President's Forum on Data draws government, industry to discuss opportunities, risks

The inaugural President's Forum on Data held Monday, May 5, 2014, drew together industry and government experts with faculty from across UAlbany to discuss the opportunities ahead in the rapidly-developing field of data analytics.

In the Albany Times Union
Satellite Data Could Improve Air Quality Index

Combining air quality data from NASA satellites with data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow service can deliver a number of potential community-level and economic benefits, according to a study from the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany.
Building Bridges to STEM

New program at UAlbany will encourage students from underrepresented populations to pursue graduate studies in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

In the Glens Falls Post-Star
Quest to Solve Breast Cancer

Research by Douglas Conklin and his team at the University at Albany Cancer Research Center have earned a patent for identifying a gene as a possible target for breast cancer drugs.

In the Albany Times-Union
UAlbany Researcher on Cutting Edge

Lednev making finds in forensics, biomedicine and now has new tool to help

A photo gallery from the Albany Times Union

Wall of Fame

Political Science Professor, Bryan Early Receives Award from U.S. Department of State

The CPR Project Team believe that the likelihood of Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore strengthening their advanced STCs could be increased if representatives from STC-related agencies in all three had the opportunity to share and discuss their STC approaches and “best practices” not only with each other, but also their neighboring countries and primary trading partners.
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Professor, Paul Roundy Receives Award from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The proposed work will advance the development of a national drought monitoring and Prediction system and objective and understanding the predictability of past droughts. The proposed work will generate a ~60 year record to identify both the onset and termination dates or pentads of intraseasonal and longer period agricultural drought events in the United States Midwest Corn Belt Region.
Political Science Professor, Bryan Early Receives Award from U.S. Department of State

Assisting Ukraine to institute a formal, indigenous training program for new & existing licensing employees. RF SUNY/CPR proposes a three-part outreach engagement consisting of an initial consultation with relevant GOU agencies in Kiev, a “train-the-trainer” (TTT) roundtable for Ukraine STC officials in Kiev, and finally, an opportunity to observe a live training under the new training program.
Political Science Professor, Bryan Early Receives Award from U.S. Department of State

Utilizing a combination of formal classroom instruction and practical exercises to assist the Government of Tajikistan (GOTI) with improving its strategic trade control framework through the provision of a five-day workshop designed for GOTI export control licensing officials. The presentations will illustrate the elements of an effective & comprehensive strategic trade licensing system
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center Professor, Lee Harrison Receives Grant from U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research

Harrison_Lee.pdfThis proposal is submitted in response to ONRBAA14-001, Code 32- addressing tropical cyclone behavior and evolution, including the DRI to investigate improvements in tropical cyclone prediction through improved treatment of the upper level outflow region and linkages to the larger scale environment.
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center Professor, Cheng-Hsuan Lu receives Award from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

We propose a two-year research-to-operation project to the NOAA MAPP Program to enhance the NOAA/NCEP weather-climate modeling capabilities by improving the representations of cloud microphysics, aerosol processes, and aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the NCEP global models (i.e., the Global Forecast System, GFS, and the Climate Forecast System, CFS).
Atmospheric And Environmental Sciences Professor, Jiping Liu Receives Award from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Improving knowledge of exchanges of heat and moisture fluxes between the ocean and the atmosphere is critical to understanding energy and water cycle, and climate variability. This is particularly true in the Arctic Ocean, where rapid environmental changes are occurring.
Education Theory and Practice Professor, Jianwei Zhang Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

Classroom innovations to cultivate creative work need to engage students in sustained inquiry and progressive discourse by which ideas are continually developed and refined, giving rise to higher-level goals. Fostering sustained inquiry within each community requires a larger social infrastructure that connects the communities into a shared field.
Anthropology Professor, David Strait, Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

This proposal integrates behavioral, ecological, experimental and engineering methods to test hypotheses about the biomechanics of ingestion and the causes of microwear in primates, with implications for hominin evolution.
Atmospheric And Environmental Sciences Professor, Ryan Torn, Receives an Award from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administriation

Numerical model predictions of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and structure suffer from deficiencies associated with initial conditions and model formulation. Here, we propose to study how errors in the HWRF model’s initial conditions impact subsequent forecasts of TC intensity and wind structure using ensemble forecasts and the ensemble-based sensitivity method.
Biological Sciences Professor, Prashanth Rangan, Receives Grant from National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Loss of stem cell self-renewal results in failure to maintain organs, leading to diseases such as infertility and neurodegenerative disorders. In contrast, some cancers result from the inability of “cancer stem cells” to differentiate, while other cancers result from de-differentiation of terminally differentiated cells to a more stem cell like state.
Communications Professor, Annis Golden, Receives Award from Galvan Foundation

This proposal seeks requests support for a one-year continuation of the Women’s Health Project, a community based health promotion initiative focused on the City of Hudson, aimed at encouraging underserved women to obtain more regular preventive healthcare services, particular focus on reproductive health, incl. screenings for breast and cervical cancer, both areas of identified health disparities.
Mathematics & Statistics Professor, Cristian Lenart, Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

This research project contains applications of combinatorics to: (1) affine crystals, which are graphs encoding representations of quantum affine algebras; (2) Whittaker functions on p-adic groups, which are a basic tool in the theory of automorphic forms and the construction of Dirichlet series; (3) modern Schubert calculus.
Biological Sciences Professor, Paul Agris, Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

Proposed research: Determination of structure and dynamics of PNA-RNA complex. Objective 3 will start with unambiguous identification of the nucleoside spin systems of target hairpins. We will start with HRP3, and later, depending on results in Objectives 2 and 3, will add other hairpin targets, as necessary. We will synthesize and study by NMR hairpins having stems with re-oriented base pairs.
Chemistry Professor, Rabi Musah Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

Based on our urgent and compelling needs, the Department of Chemistry at the University at Albany proposes to acquire a state-of-the-art JEOL high resolution AccuTOF™ Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) mass spectrometer.
Chemistry Professor, Alexander Shekhtman Receives Award from New York University School of Medicine

Types 1 and 2 diabetes are on the rise in the United States and world-wide1-3. The long-term consequences of diabetes ensue from the direct and indirect effects of hyperglycemia. Diabetes attacks the macro- and microvasculature and is well-established as a leading cause of heart attacks and stroke, blindness, renal failure, amputations, and peripheral neuropathies.
Political Science Professor, Bryan Early, Receives Award From The U.S. Department of State

Albania and Montenegro pose substantial proliferation risks due to their location along major commercial trade and smuggling routes, the presence of transnational and organized crime groups, and significant indigenous arms manufacturing and/or trade, sometimes involving actors and destinations of proliferation concern.
Biomedical Sciences Professor, Jason Herschkowitz Receives Grant from National Institutes of Health

Studies have shown that the majority of the mammalian genome is transcribed even though <2% is occupied by coding regions. These transcripts are called non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). While there has been a great deal of focus on the biological roles of a class of small ncRNAs, called miRNAs, much less is known about the vast majority of transcripts represented by IncRNAs.
Environmental Health Science Professor, Edward Fitzgerald Receives Grant from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

A longitudinal study is proposed to examine exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and change over time in neuropsychological function in older men and women. The focus will be on learning, memory, and affect, but other cognitive domains and motor function will also be investigated. The role of thyroid function as an intervening variable also will be evaluated.
Criminal Justice Research Center Professor, Dr. Allision Redlich Receives 2014 NARSAD Independent Investigator Grant

The overrepresentation of persons with serious mental health problems in the criminal justice system is well-documented. Persons with Schizophrenia, Bipolar, and Major Depression are up to five times more prevalent in jails and prisons than in the general population.
Political Science Professor, Bryan Early, Receives Award From The U.S. Department of State

Kosovo is a small landlocked country in the Balkans region of Southeastern Europe. It shares borders with Albania, Montenegro, and Macedonia and a disputed boundary with Serbia that the latter does not recognize as an international border. Kosovo’s political status is not yet fully resolved in the aftermath of its decision to declare independence from Serbia in February 2008.
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Professor, Paul Roundy, Recieves a Grant from the National Science Foundation

Both the Madden Julian oscillation (MJO) and tropical cyclones are associated with substantial signals in the extratropical atmospheric circulation. Since the MJO influences the formation and movement of TCs, part of the extratropical signal associated with composite MJO events might include circulation outcomes associated with TCs.
Education Theory & Practice Professor, Jianwei Zhang Receives Grant from the National Science Foundation

Grant will be for conducting a Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop at the annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, which in 2015 is the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Professor, Aiguo Dai Recieves a Grant from the National Science Foundation

The results from this project will significantly improve our understanding of natural variability in land precipitation and drought, especially the decadal variations associated with ocean and land surface conditions and their associated atmospheric processes.
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Professor, Lance Bosart, Receives NSF Grant

Principal Investigator, Lance Bosart, and Co-Principal Investigator, Daniel Keyser, propose to investigate extreme weather events, defined here as a category of high-impact weather events that are societally disruptive, geographically widespread, exceptionally prolonged, and climatologically infrequent, from a phenomenological perspective.
School of Social Welfare Students Work With High-Need Clients in Complying With Requirements of the Navigator Program

The School of Social Welfare will employ eight MSW students to work directly with high-need clients in their field placements in community-based locations to provide outreach, schedule appointments and enroll uninsured clients in health plans and comply with enrollment requirements of the Navigator Program.
Whitehouse Announces the Next "Genome Scale Project" (PDF)

The White House unveiled the “BRAIN” Initiative—a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders