Science and Technology

News about the latest UB research in science, engineering and technology, and its impact on society. (see all topics)

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Computer scientist Venu Govindaraju elected SPIE fellow
6/10/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The accolades for University at Buffalo researcher Venu Govindaraju keep coming.
The renegade engineers of electronics
6/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jonathan Bird and Uttam Singisetti don’t act like renegades – both dress neatly and are polite in conversation.
The next frontier of wireless tech? Your body
5/31/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The military has for decades used sonar for underwater communication.
Energy from water? UB chemists get $200,000 grant to explore new way of creating hydrogen fuel
5/30/13
Buffalo, N.Y. — Two University at Buffalo faculty members have received a $200,000 Scialog grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to devise a new method for gleaning hydrogen fuel from water.
UB inventors receive SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund award to build a metrology system capable of studying a single atom
5/29/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo engineers will receive $50,000 from the statewide SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) to build a commercial prototype of a metrology system they have invented.
Preventing ‘traffic jams’ in brain cells
5/28/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An Alzheimer’s disease protein controls the speed at which materials move through brain cells, and defects could lead to deadly pileups of the kind seen in neurodegenerative disease, a new publication finds.
UB chemist gives ‘moonshot’ proposal at Google[x]’s Solve for X event at the Global Diaspora Forum
5/28/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sarbajit Banerjee, co-director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, delivered a fast-paced “moonshot” proposal in Washington, D.C. this month as part of Solve for X @ Global Diaspora Forum.
UB earthquake engineer says Canada earthquake was “relatively minor”
5/17/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo earthquake engineer Michael C. Constantinou said while today’s earthquake near Ottawa, Canada, appears to have caused little damage it should nonetheless remind people that the East Coast is not immune to temblors.
Volcanologist can discuss ‘Popo’, the ash-spewing volcano that has towns near Mexico City on alert
5/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo volcanologist Michael Sheridan can discuss Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, which has been coughing up ash, gas and molten rock over the past few days.
Carnivorous plant throws out ‘junk’ DNA
5/13/13
IRAPUATO, MEXICO/BUFFALO, N.Y. — The newly sequenced genome of the carnivorous bladderwort contradicts the notion that vast quantities of noncoding DNA are crucial for complex life.