Environment and Sustainability

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

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  • UB Submits Plan to Reach Carbon Neutrality
    9/15/09
    After two years of planning, drafts, public presentations and feedback, the University at Buffalo today submitted a plan for achieving climate neutrality to the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
  • At UB, A Collaborative Painting Conveys Complex Environmental Science
    8/11/09
    At the University at Buffalo, students are being trained in the interdisciplinary field of ecosystem restoration, in which they learn how to restore ecosystems damaged by natural or manmade influences. But communicating this new, multidisciplinary science to the outside world -- or even to one another -- has been a challenge.
  • Western New York Waterways Will Provide Living Laboratory for 2010 Ecosystem Restoration Workshop at UB
    7/29/09
    Professional scientists and engineers interested in restoring and preserving stream and waterway resources are invited to participate in the University at Buffalo's summer 2010 "Engineering for Ecosystem Restoration" workshop to be held June 7-25.
  • UB Geologists to Help Communicate the Dangers of Colombian Volcano
    6/30/09
    During the past decade, residents of Pasto, Colombia, and neighboring villages near Galeras, Colombia's most dangerous volcano, have been threatened with evacuation, but compliance varies. With each new eruption Colombian officials have grown increasingly concerned about the safety of the residents who live within striking distance of Galeras. Now, geologists from the University at Buffalo and the Universidad de Narino have organized a workshop in Colombia designed to tackle the communication issue.
  • Ice Sheets Can Retreat "In a Geologic Instant," Study of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
    6/21/09
    Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo.
  • From Implantable Devices to Electric Vehicles, UB Professor Focuses on Power Sources
    5/13/09
    A University at Buffalo professor who has garnered more than 140 patents for power sources for tiny biomedical devices now is working to develop batteries that could power much larger devices, such as electric vehicles.
  • Solar Energy to Power Student Apartments
    5/7/09
    In its effort to promote renewable energy technologies throughout New York State and in response to Governor Paterson's call to expand New York's renewable energy portfolio, the New York Power Authority today joined with the University at Buffalo to announce a $7.5 million award to the university to construct a 1.1 megawatt solar energy array on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Tools for Green Education to be Exhibited by Visual Arts Students
    4/20/09
    University at Buffalo visual-studies students will present an exhibit on how to keep the UB campus "green" and how to use "play" to address serious issues like racial stereotyping, genetic engineering and the economic crisis.
  • Endangered Falcons Settle into a Custom-Made Love Nest, Courtesy of UB
    4/15/09
    A pair of peregrine falcons has settled into its custom-made nesting box situated on top of MacKay Heating Plant on the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus, thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University at Buffalo and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
  • UB Puts LEDs to the Test and the Outcome is Unmistakably Brilliant
    2/25/09
    Lights are shining more brightly on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus this winter because the university has swapped some conventional lamps for LEDs, light-emitting diodes.