Science and Technology

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  • UB Materials Engineer Invents New Thermal Paste to Help Minimize Overheating in Electronic Devices
    7/14/03
    A materials engineer at the University at Buffalo has invented a new thermal paste that will help solve the problem of overheating in high-performance personal computers and other electronics.
  • UB Graduate Students Test Internet Freeware Vital to Underfunded Libraries Here and Abroad
    7/14/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Informatics is testing a revolutionary freeware integrated library-automation system that can be used to automate all of the daily functions of libraries, from recording the purchase of materials and helping patrons to find them, to billing them for overdue books or rentals.
  • Fischer Named Director of Educational Programs for UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
    7/11/03
    Daniel Fischer, Ph.D., who coordinates the bioinformatics track at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel, has been named director of educational programs for the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • Smart Growth Plan for Porter Wins Top Award for UB Students
    7/11/03
    Work done by UB planning students to help the Town of Porter develop the initial phase of a master plan for future development has earned the students and their instructor the 2003 Award for Outstanding Student Project from the American Planning Association, Western New York Section.
  • It May Be 'The Summer of T3,' but at UB Robotics Workshop, 'Tickle Me Elmo' and his Sidekicks Have Center Stage
    7/3/03
    What can Tickle Me Elmo, the interactive toy for toddlers, teach high school students about robotics? Quite a lot, according to the instructors for a University at Buffalo workshop for high school students that runs July 7-11.
  • At UB Summer Workshop on Bioinformatics, High School Students Get Taste of Life Sciences of the Future
    6/30/03
    A decade ago, high school students who aspired to life sciences careers foresaw a future full of pipettes and beakers; today, high school students with similar aspirations are honing their skills at the computer as much as at the lab bench. Toward that end, nine high school students will learn the basics of bioinformatics -- the interface where life science meets computational science -- at the University at Buffalo's Summer High School Workshop in Computational Science.
  • UB Scientists Develop Non-Release Nanoparticle to Deliver Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
    6/30/03
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, working with colleagues at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), have developed a non-release, nanoparticle drug delivery system for photodynamic cancer therapy.
  • UB Engineers Develop Technology to Transmit Sensation of Touch Over the Internet
    6/23/03
    Engineers in the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the University at Buffalo have developed a new technology that transmits the sensation of touch over the Internet.
  • Steroids Trigger a 'Domino Effect' on Genes at Different Points in Time, UB Studies Find
    6/18/03
    Corticosteroids, drugs that simultaneously deliver powerful therapeutic effects and potentially severe adverse effects, cause a remarkably complex "domino effect" of genomic changes, according to a landmark paper by University at Buffalo pharmaceutical scientists.
  • UB Scientists Patent Novel Inhibitor of Poxvirus Replication; Work Could Result in Treatment for Smallpox
    6/17/03
    Molecular biologists at the University at Buffalo have discovered a novel way to inhibit the replication of poxviruses, the group that includes smallpox virus, by interfering with messenger RNA synthesis necessary for the viruses to reproduce in a host organism.