Natural Disasters

News about UB’s research and advocacy in extreme events and disaster response. (see all topics)

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  • Protecting Essential Buildings and Their Contents during Earthquakes
    10/12/07
    A new testing facility at the University at Buffalo and MCEER is the world's first test apparatus specifically designed to subject costly equipment and mechanical systems in hospitals and other important structures to the precise floor vibrations that they experience during the strongest earthquakes.
  • UB Researchers Studying 'October Surprise' Response Underscore Need for Expertise, Training
    10/11/07
    University at Buffalo researchers studying the response to the 2006 "October Surprise" storm have concluded that the effective coordination of emergency services played a critical role in decision making during the crisis.
  • Technology Would Help Detect Terrorists Before They Strike
    10/5/07
    Are you a terrorist? Airport screeners, customs agents, police officers and members of the military who silently pose that question to people every day, may soon have much more than intuition to depend on to determine the answer, thanks to computer and behavioral scientists at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Faculty Featured in Free Public Summer Lecture Series
    5/31/07
    University at Buffalo faculty members will share their expertise on a variety of topics during the UBThisSummer Lecture Series, "The World in Which We Live: Multiple Disciplines, Multiple Perspectives," to be presented on Wednesday afternoons this summer on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Multi-Hazard Engineering Symposium to be Held in New York City
    5/29/07
    A symposium on "Emerging Developments in Multi-Hazard Engineering" organized jointly by MCEER, headquartered at the University at Buffalo, and the Architectural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) will be held Sept. 18 at the McGraw-Hill Conference Center in New York City.
  • Bridges Will Rock -- Safely -- with New Quake Design
    5/9/07
    Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER.
  • Conference to Focus on Teaching Biology and Microbiology
    5/1/07
    The 14th American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) will be held in the University at Buffalo's Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North (Amherst) Campus on May 18-20.
  • UB Kicks Off "Greener Shade of Blue" Semester
    2/1/07
    This semester, the University at Buffalo will celebrate its decades-long commitment to environmental conservation while exploring the climate change crisis and other critical environmental issues through a series of speakers and activities under the theme "A Greener Shade of Blue."
  • Researchers to Study October Storm's Emergency Response
    12/27/06
    With a grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University at Buffalo will study the experiences of first and second emergency responders during Western New York's "October Surprise" snowstorm to determine if the functioning of emergency responders is impaired significantly when they are worried about their own safety and the safety of their families.
  • Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive
    12/21/06
    While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 14 to watch the world's largest seismic test on a wooden structure probably came away feeling that the house held up very well, a close survey of the damage told a different story.