Science and Technology

Graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have proposed a strategy for the large-scale retail development of the former Glenny Drive apartment complex, 1827 Fillmore Ave., in Buffalo's East Side's commercially underserved Kensington Heights neighborhood.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Pennsylvania were the first to demonstrate that two intracellular events, both stimulated by the same cell receptor, can provoke different behaviors in mammals.

University at Buffalo chemists have for the first time identified at wastewater treatment plants the metabolites of two antibiotics and a medical imaging agent.

Recently discovered geological and archaeological evidence is shedding light on a catastrophic eruption at Mt. Vesuvius during the Bronze Age that wrought broader destruction to surrounding areas than the famous Pompeii eruption of AD 79, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In an unusual collaboration, a professor in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine has joined forces with faculty members in UB's School of Architecture and Planning to develop a high-tech teaching tool to assist in the education of dental students and patients.

Elemental House, a project by first-year undergraduate students from the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will open with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on March 3 in the UB Anderson Gallery.

Mudflows initiated by natural processes at old, inactive volcanoes are some of the most lethal geologic phenomena and they contributed to last week's tragic mudslide in Guinsaugon, Philippines, according to a University at Buffalo scientist whose team has developed advanced computer models of mudflows.

For those interested in the progress of contemporary architecture here and abroad, and planning in the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the annual illustrated lecture series offered by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is a boon.

A new U.S. Department of Defense-funded center based at CUBRC and the University at Buffalo will provide the U.S. armed forces with critical technologies to enhance major national security initiatives, such as aiding the hunt for weapons of mass destruction and providing accurate intelligence information to support operations and decision-making.

University at Buffalo engineers are working to solve two significant roadblocks impeding the creation of smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices.