Science and Technology

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  • 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.
  • National Documentary Project Features Buffalo Science Education Program
    12/5/12
    A program that's bringing Android apps and miniature racecars into science classrooms in Buffalo schools is the latest subject of Bus 52, a national documentary project that is traveling across America to film people who are confronting community challenges in inventive ways.
  • UB's Gifted Math Program Challenges Buffalo's Brightest Students
    12/5/12
    David Wang was underachieving in math class because he was too smart. The seventh grader at Transit Middle School simply lost interest in the subject. What he needed was a challenge. His father decided to reignite his son's curiosity in math by enrolling him in the Gifted Math Program (GMP), an after-school, advanced mathematics program for middle and high school students at the University at Buffalo.
  • Professors Alexandridis, Morris and Sen Elected AAAS Fellows
    12/3/12
    Three University at Buffalo professors have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.