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A researcher collects a sample from a test tube at The RNA Institute.
UAlbany Researchers Make Top 2% Worldwide List
More than 40 researchers from the University at Albany have been ranked among the world’s top researchers, according to a Stanford University study published annually through Elsevier.
Graphic with headshots of UAlbany researchers featured on the Academic Minute.
‘University at Albany Week’ Airs on WAMC’s The Academic Minute
Albany’s WAMC Northeast Public Radio aired five segments from UAlbany faculty members last week during “University at Albany Week” on The Academic Minute.
Sophie Whiteman, MPH graduate student, interned this summer at Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda.
How Students Spent Their UAlbany Summer 2024
Even when classes are not in session, UAlbany students find ways to gain valuable experience through a variety of summer internships, research, volunteer, and other applied learning opportunities.
A large cylindrical white piece of scientific equipment towers over a man in a fully body clean suit inside a lab.
‘Nowhere Near Done’ — UAlbany Physicists Hail Latest in Dark Matter Hunt
LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, is the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, and its operation is a collaboration among scores of international scientists from 38 institutions, including Associate Professor Cecilia Levy and Associate Professor Matthew Szydagis in UAlbany’s Department of Physics.
A smiling young woman with long dark curly hair stand in front of her informational poster about her internship at a VA hospital.
UAlbany, Girls Inc. Encourage Students to be Life-Long Learners
Now in its 12th year at UAlbany, Eureka! is a free program created by Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region that provides girls with an introduction to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Abby Greco stands below the Saturn V rocket on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She is spending the summer working at Space Camp, which is on the grounds of the center.
UAlbany Summer: Physics Major Teaching STEM at Space Camp
Abby Greco, a rising junior and physics major at UAlbany, is teaching 9-to-14-year-olds all about science and technology at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama this summer.
Film poster for "Black Girls Play: The Story of Handgames" features two Black girls playing hand games on a chalk-covered street in front of a house. Three other girls are skipping rope in the background.
Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications
The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.
The president and provost flank a group of 16 people standing in two rows, smiling and holding tear-shaped glass awards.
2024 President’s Excellence Awards Conferred
At his annual Spring University Address, President Havidán Rodríguez announced the winners of the 2024 President’s Excellence Awards.