Science and Technology

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

Meet an Expert
  • Magda Cordell McHale, Professor Emerita
    2/26/08
    Magda Lustigova Cordell McHale, professor emerita in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, and a pioneering and influential American artist and futurist, died Feb. 21 at the Buffalo home of her friend and caretaker, Denise Kelleher.
  • Award-Winning U.S. Architecture Firms to Present Panel
    2/25/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning will present a panel discussion on March 17 featuring Craig Borum and Ken Daubmann of the collaborative firm of PLY Architecture.
  • Lecture to Focus on the Promise of Spintronics
    2/22/08
    A free talk on "Putting Spin into Electronics: Vision for the Future" will be held on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Open to the public, this "user-friendly" lecture will focus on spintronics, a subfield of physics, in which UB is an international leader.
  • UB Will Internationalize Mechanical Engineering in Vietnam
    2/20/08
    As part of a national program to help internationalize higher education in that country, one of Vietnam's most competitive universities has entered into a partnership with the University at Buffalo to begin teaching UB's undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to its own students next fall.
  • UB Center Helps Hospital Achieve Major Savings, Transform Culture
    2/14/08
    A continuous improvement program developed at a Pennsylvania hospital in partnership with The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has already saved the hospital $500,000 and earned the UB center the 2007 Award of Excellence in Workforce Development from the University Economic Development Association.
  • New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change Models
    2/11/08
    A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.
  • 'V-Frog' Virtual-Reality Frog Dissection Software Offers First True Physical Simulation
    2/8/08
    V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education -- allowing not mere observation, but physically simulated dissection -- has been developed and is being marketed by Tactus Technologies
  • Novel Molecules Developed at UB Can Boost Vaccine Potency
    2/5/08
    Two novel proteins studied by a University at Buffalo professor of microbiology and immunology appear to have the potential to enhance the production of antibodies against a multitude of infectious agents.
  • New Method Enables Design, Production of Extremely Novel Drugs
    1/23/08
    A new chemical synthesis method based on a catalyst worth many times the price of gold and providing a far more efficient and economical method than traditional ones for designing and manufacturing extremely novel pharmaceutical compounds is described by its University at Buffalo developers in a review article in the current issue of Nature.
  • Study to Identify Risk Factors for Staph Bloodstream Complications
    1/18/08
    In an effort to improve this process and develop new guidelines for antibiotic use for a potentially deadly staph infection, University at Buffalo researchers are collecting bacterial isolates and clinical information from SAB-infected patients hospitalized in three area hospitals and following their charted progress through inpatient treatment, discharge and for a post-discharge period.