Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications

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CNSE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Nathaniel Cady was awarded a $1.65 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for work on scalable nanoscale electronics.

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 24, 2025) — The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention:

  • UAlbany’s Cold Case Analysis Center has partnered with the City of Rochester Police Department to assist with the department's unsolved homicides. Students will organize and review case files, and make suggestions about potential areas of additional investigation or forensic testing to help bring the cases to resolution.
  • College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering Professor and Associate Dean for Research Nathaniel Cady has been awarded a 3-year, $1.65 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for his project, “Fabrication of Scalable Nanoscale Electronics.”
  • Gabriel Hetland, associate professor in the Department of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology, recently authored a piece for The Nation titled, “Zohran Mamdani Tackles Climate Change and New York City’s Cost-of-Living Crisis.” Another article titled, “Capitalism and authoritarianism in Maduro’s Venezuela,” was published April 19 in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
  • Janell Hobson, professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, authored a chapter that appears in Roxane Gay's new The Portable Feminist Reader, published last month by Penguin Classics. The chapter is titled "The Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism."
  • Distinguished Professor of Economics Kajal Lahiri has been cited by Research.com as one of the most influential economics and finance professors in the world in its 2025 rankings. The organization credits Lahiri, an expert on econometrics, forecasting and the economics of health, with 5,443 citations from 216 publications.
  • Ian Ross Singleton, a lecturer in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program, recently authored two articles. "Resisting Russian Colonialism: The Ukrainian Avant-Garde of 1920s Odesa," was featured as the April 2025 Spotlight on the Language, Culture and Justice Hub at Bard College. “War Poesis: A Conversation with Oksana Maksymchuk,” an interview between Singleton and the Ukrainian American poet, scholar and literary translator, was published in the journal Poetry Northwest.