Science and Technology

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.