Science and Technology

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

Video: Researchers detonate ping pong balls to better understand volcanic eruptions
6/17/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Tracking how far volcanic debris flies during an eruption, even a small, simulated blast filmed by powerful cameras, is not easy.
Scientists turn to the streets for help in monitoring waterways
6/17/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A project that asks hikers, fishermen, birdwatchers, school kids and nature-lovers of all stripes to monitor stream levels is expanding from its home base in Western New York to three new states: Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Dangerous strains of E. coli may linger longer in water than benign counterparts, study finds
6/13/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water than benign counterparts, a new study finds.
Media Advisory: Buffalo’s next high-tech entrepreneurs put ideas to the test at Pre-Seed Workshop
6/11/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ten budding entrepreneurs in the life sciences and high-tech fields will evaluate their ideas in a risk-free environment at a Pre-Seed Workshop hosted by the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
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.

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