Science and Technology

A researcher with the University at Buffalo's Great Lakes Program is leading a study focusing on how flow patterns impact the health of lakes Erie and Ontario with the goal of better understanding the relationship between physical forces in the lakes and their biological resources.

Over the past year, the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research has quadrupled computing power, upgraded its high-performance storage system and installed a new state-of-the-art visualization room. If that wasn't enough, it also moved its entire infrastructure, including a 2,000-processor supercomputer, from the university's North Campus into UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.

A University at Buffalo medicinal chemist has identified compounds to target a ribonucleic acid (RNA) that causes a form of muscular dystrophy called myotonic dystrophy, or DM.

Daniel Hess, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has won the 2006 Best Paper Competition sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at City University of New York.

Robert Shibley, professor of architecture and planning, as well as director of The Urban Design Project in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne to serve a three-year term on the Federal Commission on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

The School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, which annually brings more than 20 major national and international architects and regional and urban planners to Buffalo as speakers, has announced its 2007 Spring Lecture Series. They include stars in the architectural firmament from the U.S., Spain and Britain.

Top University at Buffalo professors will make presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of rapidly advancing fields in the 2007 Cutting Edge Lecture Series, five Saturday-morning seminars sponsored by UB's College of Arts and Sciences.

"Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation," is a traveling exhibition of jury-selected entries in a 2006 competition for proposals for a Universal Arts Center on the site of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital ruin in Southpoint Park on New York City's Roosevelt Island. The exhibition, which opened the Spring 2007 Exhibition Series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will run through Feb. 16 in the school's James Dyett Gallery.

In what can be described as a "win" for Buffalo Niagara's emerging biotechnology industry, an international pharmaceutical consulting company has relocated an office to the region to establish partnerships with the University at Buffalo and benefit from the region's biotech assets.

The SUNY Linux Learning Collaborative, a partnership between Millard Fillmore College (MFC) at the University at Buffalo and Just-in-Time Resources of Calgary, Alberta, is offering online Linux training leading to the Linux Professional Institute first level (LPIC-1) certification.