Science and Technology

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  • National Grid Invests in UB Biomedical Engineering
    4/30/10
    National Grid is investing $250,000 to develop a cutting-edge facility to support virtual partnerships with biomedical engineering at the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The grant will also support applied research collaborations and technology transfer opportunities between the university and industry to help New York businesses gain competitive technological advantages.
  • China's Busy Blogosphere No Harbinger of Political Freedom, Open Speech
    4/29/10
    A study by communication researchers at the University at Buffalo confirms what was made evident by the very public Google-Chinese government dispute over Internet censorship: the fact that China's cyberculture is changing and growing rapidly is no harbinger of political freedom and open speech in that country.
  • Walter Hood to Design Solar Array on UB Campus
    4/22/10
    The University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today that internationally renowned artist and landscape architect Walter Hood of Oakland, Calif., is the winner of a public art competition to design the 1.1 megawatt solar array that will be constructed by NYPA this year on UB's North Campus.
  • Media Advisory: Designer for Solar Installation on UB North Campus to be Introduced April 22
    4/21/10
    UB President John B. Simpson and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will introduce the winning designer of an innovative solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus at event to be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Clifton Hall, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.
  • Ash Crisis May Not Be Over, Says Leading Volcanologist
    4/21/10
    Air travel may be resuming in some European countries, but Michael F. Sheridan, PhD, a leading volcanologist and founder of the University at Buffalo's Center for Geohazards Studies, says that the future behavior of both the volcanic ash cloud and the eruptive system that spurred it is difficult to predict.
  • Volcanic Ash Research Shows How Plumes End up in the Jet Stream
    4/16/10
    A University at Buffalo volcanologist, an expert in volcanic ash cloud transport, published a paper recently showing how the jet stream, the area in the atmosphere that pilots prefer to fly in, also seems to be the area most likely to be impacted by plumes from volcanic ash.
  • Students'' 'Living Wall' Goes Up in Griffis Sculpture Park
    4/15/10
    The Living Wall, a "linear community of pods" comprising 14 full-scale interactive structures created by 100 University at Buffalo architecture students, will be exhibited through Oct. 23 at Griffis Sculpture Park, where visitors climbing on, over and through them will help the students test the functionality of their designs.
  • International artists offer visions for solar installation on UB's North Campus
    4/14/10
    What do a strand of DNA, snow drifts and a terrain of clouds, mountains and ponds have in common? They all provided inspiration for designs submitted by three internationally renowned artists, finalists in a University at Buffalo-sponsored public art competition, for a solar installation to be constructed on UB's North Campus in partnership with the New York Power Authority (NYPA).
  • New York State Approves New Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program At UB
    4/14/10
    The University at Buffalo has obtained New York State Department of Education approval to offer its Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. The new academic program is a joint effort between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, to Visit UB and HWI
    3/19/10
    The University at Buffalo and Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute are cosponsoring a visit April 8-9 from the world-renowned scientist who was awarded the most recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry.