Science and Technology

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  • At UB Workshop for Girls, Aspiring Engineers Find Each Other
    7/16/08
    With females accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of all U.S. engineers, high school can sometimes get lonely for young women who are interested in engineering and technology. But that won't be the case this week when 16 tech-minded young women entering grades 10-12 attend the University at Buffalo's 2008 Fisher-Price Cyber Engineering Workshop for Young Women.
  • To Find Out What's Eating Bats, Biologist Takes to Barn Rooftops
    6/17/08
    Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced.
  • Fluorescent-Probe in Worm Creates Real-Time "View" of Cellular Stress
    6/16/08
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo have created a mutant worm that changes color when it moves. The color change is generated by an optical sensor called stFRET. The sensor is composed of a pair of fluorescent molecules connected by a molecular spring that is inserted into structural proteins in the worm's cells.
  • UB Students Raise Their 41st Buffalo Home for Habitat for Humanity
    6/9/08
    University at Buffalo undergraduate Mindy Underhill straddles a ceiling beam, checking the joists in a home going up on Buffalo's East Side. Underhill, a junior speech and hearing science major from Marilla, N.Y., is one of a team of young women working on what they call "the girls' house." It is one of four new homes being built this year by Habitat for Humanity with major assistance from 36 UB students, and it is the 41st such house since 1990.
  • Meyer Named Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering
    6/6/08
    Anne E. Meyer of Eggertsville, director of the Buffalo site of the Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces (IUCB), has been named a fellow in biomaterials science and engineering by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE).
  • Quake Research to Provide Rare Glimpse of How Structures Collapse
    6/4/08
    Structural engineers at the University at Buffalo are conducting some of the most comprehensive experiments ever attempted to develop methods of evaluating and designing steel buildings so that they will be less vulnerable to collapse during strong earthquakes.
  • Research, Action by UB and Community Groups Alter City's Dietary Landscape
    5/28/08
    Food systems planner Samina Raja, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo School of Architectural and Planning, has been involved for several years with a number of successful projects with the Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) and other community groups that are helping make Buffalo a healthier city by improving its food environment. It is one aspect of her continuing effort to understand and propose ways through which urban planners can strengthen a community's food system.
  • UB School of Architecture and Planning Recognizes Top Students
    5/23/08
    Students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning recently received awards of excellence in their fields of study.
  • Students' Steel Bridge Model Places in Regional Engineering Contest
    5/23/08
    Building a scale model of a functional steel bridge is a tough assignment, but students from the University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering recently created one that took second place overall at the 2008 regional American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
  • UB Students' Concrete Canoe Places in Regional Engineering Contest
    5/23/08
    Engineering students from the University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering recently created a concrete canoe that beat out competitors from some of the region's top engineering schools, taking second place overall at the 2008 regional American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) conference hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.