Science and Technology

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.

Students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning recently received awards of excellence in their fields of study.

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.

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.

A new study of television viewing and communication patterns among young adults by University at Buffalo researchers has found a relationship between reality television viewing and "promiscuous friending" on popular social networking sites such as Facebook.

More than 130 teachers from Western New York high schools are now using a Web-based curriculum called MoneySKILL™ to help their students develop personal finance skills, thanks to outreach efforts by the University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank.

A "direct-to-consumer" advertising (DTCA) campaign shown on network television over the past six months touting the benefits of a specific stent device used to prop open clogged arteries should be viewed as "potentially deceptive," asserts a commentary co-authored by a University at Buffalo cardiologist in the current on-line issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins will make opening remarks at a dinner to kick off a 'pre-seed' workshop for Western New York researchers and entrepreneurs considering the launch of a technology-based business.

The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys local habitat, according to two University at Buffalo professors who study environmental impacts of structures.

The University at Buffalo and its Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) will recognize the research and commercialization achievements of faculty members at the annual Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception to be held from 4-6 p.m. May 5 in The Buffalo Club, 388 Delaware Ave.