Science and Technology

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  • Engineers to Study Hurricane Damage in Mississippi
    9/1/05
    A reconnaissance team from University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) will travel next week to Gulfport, Biloxi and other areas of Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina to determine the specific causes behind the failures of large engineered structures, primarily commercial buildings.
  • Disasters like Katrina Defy "Adequate" Response
    9/1/05
    Widespread devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina reminds Americans who are used to localized disasters being dealt with adequately that the U.S. is susceptible to catastrophes in which the ability to respond is itself severely damaged, says Ernest Sternberg, Ph.D., University at Buffalo professor of urban and regional planning.
  • UB to Host Science Series for Local Teachers
    8/23/05
    The University at Buffalo will host the 2005-06 Western New York Science and Technology Forum, a weekly lecture series for local science teachers.
  • Slaughter Announces $3 Million to Launch UB Spin-Off
    8/16/05
    A $3 million Department of Defense appropriation to Buffalo BioBlower Technologies LLC, a spin-off of the University at Buffalo, announced today by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, will allow the new company to begin commercializing its powerful air sterilization device.
  • Institute Launches New "State of the Region" Web Site
    8/5/05
    The University at Buffalo's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth has launched a new Web site for its "State of the Region" that will incorporate updates on the project's performance indicators and data as they become available.
  • Kathryn Foster Named New Director of UB's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth
    7/26/05
    Kathryn A. Foster, Ph.D., who served as director of research for the University at Buffalo's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth for six years, has been named director of the institute effective Sept. 1.
  • Using Nanoparticles, In Vivo Gene Therapy Activates Brain Stem Cells
    7/25/05
    Using customized nanoparticles that they developed, University at Buffalo scientists have for the first time delivered genes into the brains of living mice with an efficiency that is similar to, or better than, viral vectors and with no observable toxic effect, according to a paper published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Unitrust to Support Scholarships and Assistantships for Students in UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    7/25/05
    A $1 million unitrust from Erich Bloch, B.S. '52, who has named the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as the remainder beneficiary, will support undergraduate fellowships and graduate assistantships for the school through the Erich Bloch Scholarship & Graduate Assistantship Fund.
  • MTV2's "Video Mods" Boosts IBC Digital, with Help from UB's Supercomputers
    7/21/05
    The new season of MTV2's video game and music program, "Video Mods" is, in part, the result of an innovative partnership between IBC Digital, the Buffalo company that produces the "mods" and the University at Buffalo's supercomputing center.
  • NMR Method Rapidly Solves 8 Target Genomic Structures
    7/18/05
    A University at Buffalo scientist created a stir in 2003 when he announced a much faster, more precise and far less expensive method of obtaining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data to map a protein's atomic structure. In the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas A. Szyperski, Ph.D., UB professor of chemistry, and a team of structural genomics scientists present a paper on how they determined the structures of eight proteins in just 10-20 days per protein.