Rising senior Parmesh Thakoordial has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cech Fellows. The new summer research program, named for Nobel laureate and former HHMI President Thomas R. Cech, gives undergraduates the opportunity to spend nine weeks conducting hands-on research in an HHMI lab. Thakoordial, who was recently named a Phi Beta Kappa service scholar, is one of 176 students selected from 109 institutions across 36 states and territories.

UAlbany’s Kurunthachalam Kannan served on a National Academy of Sciences committee to develop recommendations for the clinical follow-up and care of people exposed to contaminated drinking water after two accidental fuel releases in 2021 in Hawaii. Nearly 93,000 people may have been exposed after the releases at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on the island of O’ahu.

Walid Redjem received a five-year, $588,285 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support his project, "Hybrid Continuous-Discrete Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Silicon Photonics." CAREER awards support early-career faculty who combine research with education and long-term scientific impact.