Green Matters
Green Research and Learning
Linking Community Service, Learning and Environmental Chemistry
Learn how UB’s students go beyond field studies and right into neighborhoods, community debates and public policy
- On Love Canal Anniversary, Regional Institute Looks at WNY's Environmental BurdenThirty years after a federal emergency was declared at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, Western New York still grapples with an environmental burden from inherited and ongoing pollution, according to the Regional Institute's latest policy brief, "Thirty Years from Love Canal."
- To Find Out What's Eating Bats, Biologist Takes to Barn RooftopsBloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced.
- UB conference to focus on restoring waterwaysProfessional engineers and scientists from New York and other states are attending an annual UB workshop this month to learn from Western New York’s experiences about how best to restore streams and other waterways so they can be enjoyed for generations.
- Law School Report Urges State Plan to Harness Offshore Wind PowerNew York State should take advantage of a golden opportunity to become a leader in developing clean, renewable offshore wind power, an alternative energy source that could trigger an economic renaissance and a greener image for the Western New York community, according to a report by a University at Buffalo Law School clinic.
- Book serves as green how-to guideThe Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability, a book edited by Walter Simpson, UB energy officer, offers advice for universities and other groups trying to reduce their carbon footprints.
- The Greening of Buffalo -- A Path to Economic GrowthLast summer, graduate students in urban planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Stuttgart in Germany worked collaboratively to produce a planning proposal designed to promote the expansion of Buffalo's green infrastructure and its economic prosperity while offering a new landscape-planning methodology in response to the destructive October 2006 storm.
- New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change ModelsA comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.
- Major Training Grant to Benefit Western New York EcosystemsThe National Science Foundation has chosen the University at Buffalo to receive a prestigious $3.1 million grant to train a new generation of environmental experts, using the ecological treasures of Western New York and the Great Lakes basin as a "living laboratory."
- Greener Affordable Housing: Fighting Poverty and PollutionIs it possible to fight poverty and pollution at the same time? A report released today by UB Law School instructor Sam Magavern and his students suggests that Buffalo, the state and the non-profit community can do just that by "greening" their affordable housing programs.
Green Matters
Experts
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Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D.
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Barry Boyer
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James N. Jensen, Ph.D.
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Diana Aga, Ph.D.
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Jason Briner, Ph.D.
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Joseph F. Atkinson, Ph.D.
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A. Scott Weber, Ph.D.
The Big Picture
UB is home to one of the nation’s few chemistry service-learning programs where students focus on environmental concerns in urban communities.