Science and Technology

Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo, and director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) at UB, is one of 15 Indian scientists and engineers in the U.S. chosen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Indian Business Club to receive a Global Indus Technovators Award.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a process in which cells are used to construct new blood vessels, opening the door to growing new blood vessels for procedures like coronary bypass surgery, according to a paper published online on Oct. 14 in the American Journal of Physiology -- Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

Studies using human subjects to determine a "no observable effect level" of pesticides do not meet widely accepted scientific and ethical standards for research and should not be used to set new standards, according to a scathing analysis published in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Chemists and epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo are delving into the effects of light on tumor development and tumor destruction through several new studies with grants totaling more than $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

Researchers in the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) at the University at Buffalo are developing a versatile smart-card system that incorporates a powerful ultrasonic fingerprint-identification technology developed by Amherst-based Ultra-Scan Corp.

Glenn Murcutt, the Australian architect known internationally for his inspiring designs that integrate architecture and environment, will be the 2004 Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair in Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

A team of three graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has been selected from among 230 international design teams as one of three first-place winners in an important international design competition.

The unabashedly dramatic nature of volcanoes that permeates the pages and pictures of "Volcanic Worlds: Exploring the Solar System's Volcanoes" (Springer-Praxis, 2004), edited by Rosaly M.C. Lopes and Tracy K.P. Gregg, is matched by the equally passionate voices of the 11 women who contributed to the book.

Just days before the presidential election, problems with voting systems that were identified in the 2000 election persist because engineering solutions have not been applied, says a University at Buffalo industrial engineer.

For centuries, trowels and handpicks have been traditional tools of the trade for archeologists, but a University at Buffalo geophysicist who has been working at an archeological site in Jordan is proposing that some decidedly 21st-century technologies, like tablet PCs equipped with fancy navigational software, ought to be standard gear as well.