Science and Technology

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  • A Nano-Solution to Global Water Problem: Nanomembranes Could Filter Bacteria
    2/21/11
    New nanomaterials research from the University at Buffalo could lead to new solutions for an age-old public health problem: how to separate bacteria from drinking water.
  • Double Engineering Major is a Double Threat on the Court and in the Classroom
    2/14/11
    There's never been a dull University at Buffalo moment for Kourtney Brown. Standing 6-feet-tall, Brown is a star athlete on the women's basketball team, as her recent record-breaking 35-point scoring night against Miami of Ohio shows.
  • New Study to Use Smart Phones to Track Air Pollution Exposure
    2/8/11
    University at Buffalo researchers are creating a new and unusual "app" for the smart phone: tracking air pollution.
  • $2 million in Stimulus Funding Supports Purchase of Two Mass Spectrometers for Health and Environmental Research
    2/8/11
    Two new, high-powered mass spectrometers worth a total of more than $2 million will enable University at Buffalo scientists to conduct a variety of health and environmental studies without outsourcing lab work to institutions outside of Western New York.
  • Where Did Flowers Come From?
    2/7/11
    The University at Buffalo is a key partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore the origins of all flowers by sequencing the genome of Amborella, a unique species that one researcher has nicknamed the "platypus of flowering plants."
  • UB Professor Robert Wetherhold Is Named a Fellow of ASME
    2/4/11
    Robert C. Wetherhold, PhD, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  • New Techniques for Stapling Peptides Could Spur Development of Drugs for Cancer, Other Diseases
    2/3/11
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have devised two new ways of "stapling" peptide helices to prevent these medically important molecules from losing their shape and degrading in the presence of enzymes.
  • If a Culture of Growth is Unsustainable, What Needs to Change?
    1/27/11
    The national mood rises and falls with the stock market. Business analysts lavish praise on companies that grow, and fret over the prospects of those that don't. The conventional view is that expansion is a sign of health. But is that assumption compatible with the finite resources of a finite planet?
  • UB School of Social Work Achieves Cyberspace Milestone
    1/26/11
    The University at Buffalo's School of Social Work has recorded its 100,000th download to its "Living Proof" podcast series, a milestone the school's dean calls "a sign UB's School of Social Work's entrance into cyberspace is here to stay."
  • With Cloud Computing, the Mathematics of Evolution May Get Easier to Learn in College...and Easier to Teach in High School
    1/21/11
    An innovative, educational computing platform developed by University at Buffalo faculty members and hosted by the cloud (remote, high-capacity, scalable servers) is helping UB students understand parts of evolutionary biology on an entirely new level. Soon, high-school and middle-school students will benefit from the same tool as well.