Science and Technology

Phillip Tucciarone, a University at Buffalo chemical and biological engineering student, has won a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships awarded annually to U.S. college students.

The awards, given to early-career investigators, illustrate the value that recent hires bring to UB.

Michelle A. Van Gheem, research compliance and compliance manager of GE Healthcare, General Electric Co. in Wauwatosa, Wis., has been named director of research compliance.

Clues in the Arctic fossil record suggest that 3-5,000 years ago, the ice sheet was the smallest it has been in the past 10,000 years.

A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed a technique for studying individual sheets of graphene in a stack — even when the sheets are covering each other up.

Obesity may alter the way we taste at the most fundamental level: by changing how our tongues react to different foods.

UB Professor Paras Prasad's pioneering work in biophotonics could lead to health care improvements like ultrasensitive biomaging and light-activated therapies.

Phillip Tucciarone, a University at Buffalo senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship.

Research has just begun, but it shows promise to help paraplegics, factory workers and others.

Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be used to design more agile and fuel-efficient unmanned underwater vehicles.