Environment and Sustainability

News about UB’s environmental programs and related sustainability initiatives. (see all topics)

UB receives Environmental Champion Award from EPA
4/29/15
It is the only institute of higher learning in New York in 2015 to receive the honor.
Harmon Parker, builder of footbridges in Africa, to speak at UB on Thursday
4/22/15
Engineering students have teamed with his nonprofit to help rural Kenyans.
Media Advisory: UB to launch new Solar Strand app with 150 elementary school students on Earth Day
4/20/15
The app acts like traditional signs in museums and parks – only it’s more interactive.
Media Advisory: Walls up! Construction is underway on UB’s solar-powered GRoW Home
3/23/15
The structure will compete in the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon contest.
In wintry Buffalo, a café heated daily with just six logs of wood
3/10/15
A wood-burning heater designed by UB architects enables the café to stay warm with no mechanical HVAC system.
Adeline “Addie” Levine, noted scholar of Love Canal, dies at 89
3/4/15
Levine, a longtime UB faculty member, died of cancer Feb. 26 in her Buffalo home.
Modeling chimp behavior? Try using laws that govern matter
3/3/15
As habitats shrink, Newton’s Laws of Motion could help us predict how some animals will react, UB researchers say.
Overcoming our e-waste problem
2/18/15
The reluctance to part with mobile phones, laptops and other gizmos – sometimes called “gadget hoarding” – is part of a larger and more troubling issue: managing electronic waste, or e-waste.
CBS to feature UB water lens research
2/4/15
National television cameras came to campus last semester to focus attention on a UB innovation that is attracting worldwide interest.
Did you know? Twelve amazing UB discoveries from 2014
12/31/14
UB researchers made headlines around the world this year with studies on coffee, climate change, babies’ eating habits and more.

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