Science and Technology

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

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  • Filiatrault Elected MCEER Director
    10/14/08
    Andre Filiatrault, Ph.D., Eng., a professor at the University at Buffalo and leading expert on shake-table testing of structural and nonstructural building components, has been elected to a two-year term as director of MCEER, a national center of excellence focused on multi-hazard engineering, headquartered at UB.
  • Using Social Media to Inspire College Students to Join Organ Donor Registry is Aim of New Grant
    10/14/08
    New York State's registry of residents willing to donate their organs and tissue if they are fatally injured lags behind those of states with less population and newer registries. Only 7 percent of New York residents have signed formally onto the state's electronic registry. A University at Buffalo specialist in health communication wants to change that.
  • CSI UB
    10/13/08
    Think of University at Buffalo Law School Professor Charles Patrick Ewing's newest book this way: Imagine a front-row seat to some of the country's most intriguing court cases, courtesy of Ewing, one of the country's leading experts on the criminal mind, who draws on up-close-and-personal details from his 30 years of experience.
  • Ohio Electronics Company Supports New UB Engineering Building and Establishes Fellowship Program
    10/8/08
    Bird Technologies Group has given $200,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to advance research and education in UB's RF/microwave systems program.
  • Emergency Evacuation Plans in Upstate New York Inadequate, Says Expert
    9/22/08
    In the case of an extreme event or disaster, many areas in upstate New York are ill prepared for a large-scale evacuation of people who don't own personal vehicles, says a University at Buffalo transportation and evacuation expert.
  • Two UB Professors Participate in National Conference of "Rising Star Engineers"
    9/18/08
    Two University at Buffalo professors in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are participating in the 14th annual National Academy of Engineering 2008 "U.S. Frontiers of Engineering" symposium to be hosted Sept. 18-20 by Sandia National Laboratories at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
  • New Biomedical Engineering Initiative Will Develop Groundbreaking Medical Devices, Boost Local Industry
    9/17/08
    The University at Buffalo announced today the establishment of a Department of Biomedical Engineering that will focus on development of groundbreaking medical devices and therapies addressing society's most pressing health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.
  • UB Physicists Celebrate LHC Startup, Decades After Its Inception
    9/10/08
    Particle physicists don't ordinarily have a reputation as the most effusive bunch in the world but University at Buffalo physicists, along with their colleagues all over the planet, are positively exuberant about the Sept. 10 debut of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, the most powerful particle physics accelerator ever built.
  • Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider, No Worries
    9/9/08
    No, the startup of the Large Hadron Collider this week won't create a massive black hole that will wipe out life on Earth as we know it, according to University at Buffalo assistant professor of physics Dejan Stojkovic.
  • How Women Urban Builders Collaborated to Remake their Environment
    9/5/08
    "The modern city and the modern woman invented each other," says architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, a fact she says is clearly demonstrated in Berlin, a city that women began to claim as their own in bold and dramatic ways at the turn of the 20th century.