Science and Technology

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  • Social Media Pays Off for Businesses, Study Shows
    1/16/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Customers who connect with a business through social media will go to the business more frequently and contribute more to its bottom line, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Process is Key to Small IT Business Customer Satisfaction
    1/14/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Small information technology (IT) businesses that follow formal processes are more productive and achieve higher quality and customer satisfaction, according to a study from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • UB Recruiting Innovators in Life Sciences for High-Tech CEL
    1/10/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leaders of early-stage life sciences and technology companies can take advantage of a High-Tech Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) program that will begin in March 2013.
  • Obama Awards Highest Technology Honor to Buffalo Businessman and UB Alumnus Norman McCombs
    1/8/13
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama has announced that Norman R. McCombs, a University at Buffalo alumnus who developed an oxygen production system that spawned a billion dollar industry and helped ease the pain of millions suffering from lung diseases, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the U.S. government’s highest honor for technological achievement.
  • Through Science, Alumni Give Back to Buffalo Schools
    12/28/12

    Two Hutch Tech graduates — now scientists — return to the Buffalo Public Schools to work with teachers and students in a science education program.

  • UB Incubator Program Welcomes Seven New Companies in 2012
    12/27/12

    The University at Buffalo’s business incubators welcomed seven new tenants in 2012, including companies working in Western New York’s biomedical, energy, materials and high-tech sectors.

  • Tonus Therapeutics Moves Into Center of Excellence
    12/18/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tonus Therapeutics, a University at Buffalo spin-off company, has opened its first-ever headquarters in UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
  • Injured Coral? Expect Less Sex
    12/17/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — Coral colonies that suffered tissue damage in The Bahamas were still producing low numbers of eggs four years after the injuries occurred, according to new research by University at Buffalo scientists. Tiny sperm-producing factories called spermaries were also in short supply.
  • A Life Sciences Phoenix: QuaDPharma Rises, Led By Experts from Departed WNY Firm
    12/11/12
    With help from UB, former employees of Contract Pharmaceuticals Limited have launched QuaDPharma, a Clarence-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer.
  • UB Undergraduate Receives American Society for Microbiology Fellowship
    12/7/12
    University at Buffalo senior Courtney Szyjka has been awarded the American Society for Microbiology's 2012 Undergraduate Research Fellowship.