A University at Buffalo scientist who is an expert in volcanic mudflows will travel to Nicaragua on Saturday to evaluate the possible causes of last weekend's devastating mudflow that occurred with the catastrophic collapse of Casita volcano and killed thousands of people in several villages.
University at Buffalo researchers have announced technical advances in producing carbon nanotubes that will lead to affordable flat panel displays, which one day will make it possible to hang TV or computer monitors on the wall like a picture.
Ronald J. Allman of East Amherst, plant manager at American Axle-Tonawanda Forge, has been named chair of the advisory board of the University at Buffalo Business Alliance.
Janet Penksa, vice president for The Center for Health Policy Studies in Albany, has been named an associate vice president for university services at UB.
With companies it has assisted now totaling nearly 400 employees and $51 million in revenues, the University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator is looking to even greater accomplishments as part of the new UB Business Alliance.
Businesses in Western New York and beyond have a new and improved way to access the University at Buffalo in the UB Business Alliance, an organization designed to enhance the university's partnerships with industry.
Margarita Vargas, Ph.D., whose work has been published in major literary journals here and abroad, has been named chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures for a three-year term.
Mary H. Rappole, a family nurse practitioner, has been named coordinator of the School of Nursing's bachelor's-degree distance-learning program in Jamestown.
A $1.2 million three-year federal grant to evaluate the effectiveness of family skills training to prevent substance abuse and other problems in children in welfare families where parents are involved in the abuse of alcohol or other drugs has been awarded to researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.
