More than 450 freshman engineering students presented their wind
energy projects as part of the final awards ceremony for the
"Engineering Principles" class.
A new study led by geophysicist Beata Csatho, UB associate
professor of geology, provides what the authors think is the first
comprehensive picture of how Greenland’s ice is
vanishing.
Five UB Honors College students worked with UB Sustainability to
help the Western New York Environmental Alliance and its roughly
100 member groups become a more inclusive organization.
Volunteers spent the day planting 180 trees in areas around the
South Campus with little or no tree coverage as part of
“ReTree the District,” an initiative to add more than
1,000 trees to the urban tree canopy over the next two years.
The Growing Food Connections Policy Database, hosted by the
School of Architecture and Planning, assists local governments as
they work to broaden access to healthy food and help sustain local
farms and food producers.
The new Zero Waste program is a partnership between UB
Athletics, Campus Dining & Shops, University Facilities and UB
Sustainability that aims to eliminate garbage at the stadium.
Teri Rueb, a professor in the UB Department of Media Study,
contributes to creating “Other Order”, a sound
walk through the Bussey Brook Meadow at the Arnold Arboretum of
Harvard University.
UB’s annual celebration of International Education Week
(IEW) Nov. 10-14 will focus this year on the topic of
sustainability, with the keynote speakers and other events bringing
a global context to the subject.
Not all UB students who live in the University District are
troublemakers; a large number of students are engaged in projects
that are continually improving the neighborhood.
Alanna Olear is one of many students taking advantage of
UB’s undergraduate research opportunities. She is studying
which alternative leaves a smaller environmental footprint
throughout the life of the product.
Buffalo is nestled in a region loaded with farms and orchards,
yet a deacde ago the city housed many neighborhoods where fresh
fruits, meats and vegetables were in short supply. Now, Buffalo has
become a leader in urban agriculture.
Children enrolled in the UB Child Care Center, a state-licensed
and nationally accredited center serving the children of UB
students, faculty and staff, are able to experience its
enriching curriculum.
Charger-toting smartphone users have reason to rejoice because
three UB research groups have received $1.3 million in combined
funding to improve energy management in smartphones.
The People's Climate March was held on September 21st to raise
awareness of the urgent need to combat global climate change. UB
students were among the nearly 400,000 people who participated in
the march.
A parking place in the Diefendorf lot on the South Campus was
transformed into a mini-park to promote alternative means of
transportation as UB’s contribution to Park(ing) Day
Buffalo.
The university has installed a boat launch between The Commons
and the Center for the Arts. The launch is part of an effort to
further engage the UB community, especially students, in nearby
natural resources.
The UB community gets an A+ for generosity, donating more than
24,000 items in this year’s school supply drive sponsored by
the Office of Community Relations. In all, 24,469 items were
collected, making this year’s drive the most successful one
yet.
Where can you learn how to be more “green” at work
and home, see rescued birds, enjoy free samples of sustainable
products and even donate items to Goodwill? The answer, of course,
is the sixth annual UB Sustainable Living Fair.
Children attending the UB Child Care Center’s summer camp
last week learned about the importance of water to everyday life as
part of an annual summer program presented by the Office of
Sustainability.
UB undergraduate Deshawn Henry has developed an easy,
inexpensive way to disinfect contaminated water, work that could
have a tremendous impact in developing countries.
By restoring abandoned buildings with found
materials, Andrew Perkins is battling a culture
of rampant consumerism and reckless waste—and
creating some pretty cool spaces in the process.
A protein UB scientists found in the venom of a South American
spider could finally answer the need for an effective muscular
dystrophy treatment - and save a young boy's life.
The colleges in this collection do a great job of teaching their
students sustainable practices, working in their communities, and
spreading information. These institutions deserve credit and
encouragement.
William Phillipps, UB geology graduate student, will travel to
Norway to collect data that proves the Svalbard-Barents Sea
Ice-Sheet’s (SBSIS) the point when the ice began to melt is
older than its suggested age.
According to UB researchers, green algae in the Great Lakes not
only protect bacteria from destruction by the sun’s
ultraviolet rays, but feed the organisms as well.
UB's Prosperity Scholarship program welcomes its newest class of
young, promising scholars, the biggest selection of students in the
scholarship’s history and claiming many of Western New
York’s best and brightest students as its own.
Illinois environmentalists expecting a battle with business over
a call for a ban on microbeads, which show up inside fish that are
caught for human consumption, found the industry quickly
collaborated.
UB faculty members James Olson and Matthew Bonner have partnered
with teams in Egypt to research and reduce the adverse effects of
pesticides used in cotton farming.
Environmentalist Frederick Stoss, UB associate librarian and
subject specialist, received the first Friend of the Biblioteca
Nacional Aruba (BNA, National Library of Aruba) Award.
The Congress for New Urbanism’s national conference is in
Buffalo this week, and UB’s School of Architecture and
Planning are among those leading the conversation.
Two UB architecture faculty members have won internationally
prominent lifetime achievement awards for their “significant
and lasting” contributions to environmental design research,
practice and teaching.
Robert G. Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and
Planning, is being recognized by the American Institute of
Architects New York State (AIANYS) for his design influence on
public architecture across the state.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has cited
UB as a national best practice for its community outreach efforts
in neighborhoods around the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
(BNMC).
RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water)
promises to tackle the most difficult and pressing issues that
society faces in trying to create a more sustainable world.
One of UB’s popular spring rituals — falcon-watching
— is in full swing with the return of peregrine falcons Dixie
and Yankee to their South Campus nesting box.
A partnership between UB’s divisions of Finance and
Administration, and University Life and Services, the
Sustainability dashboard tracks real-time electricity use on the
North and South campuses.
Professor Jason Briner brings students to Greenland, Alaska or
Baffin Island about twice a year to ply the land for clues about
the history of climate change.
SOUTH BUFFALO - The Old First Ward Community Center’s
monthly community meeting was held at the Larkin Building on
Exchange Street on Feb 18 for a special presentation.
This spring, concerned regional citizens can gain practical
skills to mobilize their ideas into community action by enrolling
in the Citizen Planning School, a free resource being offered by
the School of Architecture and Planning.
Sam Magavern brings people together. As co-director of
Partnership for the Public Good (PPG), he works to bring people
with energy and good ideas to bear on the challenges facing the
city of Buffalo.
Millions of people have seen her animated Web videos. She wrote
a best-selling book and she has testified before Congress. She has
even appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show.
Students and professors in architecture, engineering and
management will design, build and promote GRoW House — a
1,400-square-foot, solar-powered home — as finalists in the
national Solar Decathlon competition.
Alan Rabideau, a UB environmental engineering professor with a
track record of interdisciplinary research, will serve as UB's
first Research and Economic Development Leadership Fellow.
UB has announced the launch of RENEW (Research and Education in
eNergy, Environment and Water), an interdisciplinary research
institute that will focus on difficult and complex environmental
issues.
Twelve classmates have joined the ranks of UB’s first
entrepreneurial boot camp for students, and up to five of them have
a chance to win $8,000 in seed funding when they complete it.
A temporary building on the South Campus houses a humble-looking
contraption that could serve as a spark for improving public
transit everywhere: a full-scale replica of a 40-foot public
bus.
The University at Buffalo won two awards from BUILDINGS
magazine’s eighth-annual America’s Best Buildings
of the Year (ABBY), a contest for commercial and institutional
facilities.
Phillip Tucciarone, a UB chemical and biological engineering
student, has won a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most
prestigious scholarships awarded annually to U.S. college
students.
Jason Briner knew it was dangerous to camp on the coast of
Baffin Island, one of Canada’s most northern points, during
the summer. Yet that’s exactly what he was doing eight years
ago.
A sculptural wall located at Buffalo's Silo City and designed by
architecture faculty members is a finalist in an international
competition in computational design.
UB undergraduate students will travel to northern Peru next
summer to conduct rigorous interdisciplinary research into the
biological and chemical properties of indigenous medicinal
plants.
Stingrays move through water with such ease that
researchers from UB and Harvard University are studying how their
movements could be used to build more maneuverable unmanned
underwater vehicles.
On a clear September morning, Sandy Geffner, environmental
studies faculty member, and Nick Peterson, Geffner’s student
and a UB staff member, treaded through Letchworth Woods on the
North Campus.
UB researchers are developing a deep-sea Internet. The
technological breakthrough could lead to improvements in tsunami
detection, pollution monitoring and other activities.
The façade of the Burchfield Penney Art Center has been
transformed into a permanent, constantly changing new media
gallery, thanks to a collaboration between SUNY Buffalo State and
the UB Department of Architecture.
Robert G. Shibley, professor and dean of the Buffalo School of
Architecture and Planning, has received the American Institute of
Architects New York State (AIANYS) 2013 Educator Award.
For years, UB dining officials have heard students talk about
eating healthier. And when it was meal show time and the students
had to choose, they did what they always have done. They grabbed
pizza, burgers and fries.
UB and community sponsors presented a public lecture last
week by pioneering public health advocate Meredith Minkler,
professor of health and social behavior at the University of
California, Berkeley.
On a Tuesday morning in June, school groups huddle around the
Buffalo Zoo’s polar bear exhibit. The children come and go in
great, chattering waves of 20 or 30, oohing and aahing and
balancing on tiptoe to get a better view.
Students from UB’s new Sustainability Academy joined
fellow undergraduates in touring Love Canal, the 700 block of Main
Street, the Buffalo River and Silo City to learn about the
region’s history of industrial pollution.
A UB study to examine the effects of emissions from the
Tonawanda Coke plant on the health of residents is one of several
initiatives being recommended by federal prosecutors.
Eco-minded students will have the chance to intern with
environmental organizations and get a behind-the-scenes look at
UB’s operations this year, thanks to the university’s
new Sustainability Academy.
In 2006, Charles F. Zukoski, then a high-ranking administrator at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was asked to
support a plan to make the university climate neutral by 2030.
As Jennifer Berryman landscaped the front lawn of Bristol Homes
on Wednesday, she remembered painting the nonprofit assisted living
facility a year earlier.
Domus, an international magazine on architecture, art and
design, recently sat down with Dean Robert Shibley
to investigate the process behind the realization of UB's
Solar Strand.
Tyler Manley is one of three members on the Massachusetts Avenue
Project staff who majored or minored in philosophy. How did
his University at Buffalo degree prepare him for his job?
When Andrea Martinez opts for the can of juice instead of the
plastic bottle at the store, it’s apparent that the research
she performed on pollution in Lake Ontario has had an effect on
her.
