Science and Technology

The highly sought-after quality methodology called Six Sigma is now available to University at Buffalo students in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

An efficient new strategy for synthesizing a natural marine product, which shows promising anti-tuberculosis activity but cannot be efficiently synthesized using conventional chemistry, is being reported by University at Buffalo organic chemists online in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation or chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo.

John E. Van Benschoten, Ph.D., professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Undergraduates from Western New York will have an opportunity this summer to participate in the inaugural session of a new biomedical-research training program at the University at Buffalo funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The world-renowned statue Hermes with the Infant Dionysos has been equipped with innovative seismic protective devices that will help the 7-foot-high marble statue of the Greek god withstand powerful earthquakes. The protective devices were custom made for the statue based on analysis and tests conducted at the University at Buffalo's earthquake engineering laboratory.

Shahin Vassigh, an architect and structural engineer on the faculty of the University at Buffalo, has received international recognition over the past two years for her revolutionary approach to teaching structural analysis and building technology to architectural students.

"Corners," an exhibit showcasing "architectural scrapbooks" constructed by first-year students in the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, is on display in the Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.

Mehrdad Hadighi, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, who has received repeated notice over the past several years as one of the world's up-and-coming young architects, has been named chair of the school's Department of Architecture.

Civil engineering students from five universities will put their high-rise building models to the test Jan. 29 on the shake table at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory during the first Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition.