Science and Technology

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  • In Millionths of a Second, "Photocrystallography" Captures Big Changes in Transient Molecular Species
    10/7/04
    University at Buffalo scientists have reported the first experimental measurements of structures of high-energy states of molecules that exist for just millionths of a second.
  • Awards Go to Faculty Members In School of Architecture and Planning
    10/7/04
    Three faculty members of the faculty in the School of Architecture and Planning have been honored with major awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association.
  • British Architect Will Alsop to Speak at UB October 20
    9/29/04
    Will Alsop, who because of his avant-garde and strikingly odd-looking buildings is considered something of a maverick on the British architectural scene, will present a slide lecture of his work on Oct. 20 at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Huw Davies, UB Chemist and Developer of New Synthesis Methods, Will Receive Top Organic Chemistry Award
    9/27/04
    Huw M. L. Davies, Ph.D., Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a prestigious Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society.
  • UB Opens $21.2 Million Earthquake Engineering Simulation Facility
    9/24/04
    A new era in earthquake-engineering research was ushered in today with the grand opening of the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility within the University at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
  • Ready to Shake: UB to Open New Earthquake-Engineering Simulation Facility
    9/23/04
    A grand opening ceremony for the new National Science Foundation George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility at the University at Buffalo will be held 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, September 24, 2004) in Ketter Hall on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Leslie Weisman, Author of "The Sex of Architecture," and Australian Architect Sean Godsell to Speak at UB this Month
    9/17/04
    Leslie Weisman, a star in the field of architectural theory and education and the author of several books on gender and design, and Australian Sean Godsell, architect of several award-winning houses, will present slide lectures at the University at Buffalo this month as part of the annual series sponsored by the School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Department of Defense Awards Grant to UB-Ultra-Scan Team to Develop Optimal Biometric Systems
    9/16/04
    The U.S. Department of Defense, through the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, has awarded Ultra-Scan Corp. and the University at Buffalo's Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) a highly competitive Small Business Technology Transfer Research contract.
  • 2004 Lecture Series to Open With a Discussion of Urban Vitality in an Era of Urban Decline
    9/14/04
    Preoccupied as we are with the end of urbanism, Buffalonians ought to chuck the chicken wings and gobble up some Douglas Rae. With his arresting new book, "CITY: Urbanism and Its End" (Yale University Press, 2003), Rae has excited the moribund national discussion about whether or not fading urban centers can evolve again into lively and exciting places to live.
  • Oishei Foundation Grant Funds UB Nanomedicine Program
    9/9/04
    The nanomedicine program of the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics is moving beyond the benchtop, thanks to a $925,000 grant to the institute from the John R. Oishei Foundation.