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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  • Works By Architecture Undergraduates Featured in "Buffalo Scaled"
    3/21/07
    The UB Anderson Gallery is proud to present "Buffalo Scaled," an exhibition featuring projects created by undergraduate students from the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. The exhibition opens with a public reception on March 31 at 6 p.m.
  • UB President Signs National Accord on Climate Commitment
    3/15/07
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson has committed the university to taking a leadership role in fighting global warming by signing the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
  • North Carolina Company to Relocate to UB's Center Of Excellence
    3/15/07
    Medcotek, Inc., a North Carolina medical-technology company, is relocating to the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences as the result of a strategic partnership between local companies Buffalo BioSciences and E-Capital Financing.
  • No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself
    3/7/07
    The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellant, to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems that keep these drugs intact until reaching their targets.
  • Expert Criticizes "Tyranny of the Majority" In Community Development
    3/5/07
    Urban planner and researcher Robert Mark Silverman, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo, is critical of community development projects and processes that serve vested interests while discouraging or denying input to others, including the indigent, poor and working classes who have to live with results.
  • To Boost Health of Great Lakes, Study Focuses on Circulation Patterns
    3/5/07
    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.
  • CCR Increases Computing Power, Interactions with Researchers
    2/22/07
    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.
  • Compounds Target RNA Linked to Type of Muscular Dystrophy
    2/21/07
    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.
  • Hess Transportation Study Wins "Best Paper Competition"
    2/12/07
    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.
  • Shibley Named to Federal Erie Canal Heritage Commission
    2/7/07
    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.