CAS Public Engagement News

CAS Public Engagement News
Camelia Lenart with students
Dr. Camelia Lenart named the recipient of a Diversity Transformation Award
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The award is titled, “Dancing Dialogues: Hip-Hop, Diversity and Collaboration
A group of 16 members of STEM NOW pose, all smiling, for a group photo in a classroom at UAlbany. The group is posed in front of a white board and they are arranged in two rows. The front row is kneeling on the carpet, which is gray. All are wearing white name tags.
STEM NOW: Student Group Invites New Members to Promote Gender Equality in STEM
A new student org at UAlbany invites members to build community and promote gender equality in STEM
Schenectady's Ari Mayo stands in front of a poster she created describing her internship with Electrict City Barn.
UAlbany, Girls Inc. Partner for 11th Annual Eureka! Program
Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region and the University at Albany partnered to honor 72 girls from throughout the area who participated in the 11th annual Eureka! college and career readiness program.
Chemist Igor Lednev holds a portable Raman spectrometer.
UAlbany Start-Up Receives Federal Support to Develop New Technology for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
The one-year NSF grant of $274,713 will be used to advance the commercialization of the technology.
EPICH students and program leaders stand for a photo following the "Shark Tank" competition.
CEHC Hosts ‘Shark Tank’ Competition for High School Seniors
The students were tasked with creating an invention or idea to pitch to CEHC faculty and staff.
A group of female students sit and stand in front of physics equipment in a lab at UAlbany.
Eureka! Program Powers Girls to Succeed in STEM Fields
A nationally recognized endeavor by Girls Inc. that provides hands-on opportunities in STEM, the Capital Region Girls Inc. Eureka! program has 57 girls from a number of different schools attending UAlbany this summer to learn about atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, women’s studies, geography and planning, chemistry, ChoreoPhysics and biology.
CAS Public Engagement Community Healing yoga and meditation April 28 2022, 1-2:30 p.m., Campus Center Ballroom, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany NY 12222
CAS Public Engagement Community Healing: Yoga and Meditation, April 28
Join CAS Public Engagement for community healing with Yoga and Meditation with Root3D on Thursday, April 28, 1-2:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. Bring a towel or yoga mat. Healthy, healing refreshments will be provided. Contact Deb Privott at [email protected].
(L to R) Dr. Zhilin Liu and Dr. Xun Wu
College of Arts and Sciences 2022 Speaker Series, Friday, April 22
Join the College of Arts and Sciences for the second event of the 2022 Speaker Series, Friday, April 22 at 9:30 a.m. via Zoom. The speakers will be Dr.  Zhilin Liu, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Dr. Xun Wu, Division of Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their topics will be on governmental responses to COVID-19.