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  • AMBP Tech Corp. Receives $1.1 Million Grant
    11/27/02
    AMBP Tech Corp., a UB spin-off company, has received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency.
  • UB Engineer Develops Novel Method for Assembly of Nanoparticles
    11/21/02
    A University at Buffalo engineer has developed a novel method for assembling nanoparticles into three-dimensional structures that one day may be used to produce new nanoscale tools and machines.
  • University at Buffalo Adds Second Dell Cluster to Track Great Lakes Pollution, Fuel General Research
    11/20/02
    The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York has added a 300-node Dell high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) to its Center for Computational Research (CCR). The increased computing capacity will assist with various scientific research projects, including groundwater modeling to help predict the flow of contaminants in large bodies of water such as the Great Lakes, computational chemistry and molecular structure determination.
  • Foster Named Chair of Planning Department
    11/15/02
    Kathryn A. Foster, associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been named chair of the department, effective Jan. 2.
  • UB's e-Business Japanese Course Takes to the Road
    11/13/02
    Most Americans doing business in Japan face some unusual obstacles: a language completely unlike their own, complex and apparently inexplicable modes of interaction evolved from ancient traditions and a general lack of familiarity with Japanese culture -- in particular, its business culture. For business people who need to get up to speed, the University at Buffalo World Languages Institute has announced plans to offer its pioneering online e-Business Japanese program next spring in cooperation with the University of New Orleans Critical Languages Program.
  • Algorithm Predicts Interactions Between Proteins Whose Structures Are Unsolved
    11/11/02
    A promising new algorithm that can predict interactions between proteins whose structures are unsolved has been developed by Jeffrey Skolnick, Ph.D., University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor and director of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • El Reventador Volcano, Which Closed Quito, Deserves More Study, UB Scientist Says
    11/8/02
    Ecuador's El Reventador volcano awoke from a 35-year slumber last Sunday with an eruption that makes other volcano eruptions of recent years look "pale" in comparison, according to a University at Buffalo geologist.
  • Study Shows Perceived Risk of Online Credit Purchases Linked to Trust, Familiarity with Intermediaries
    11/6/02
    Despite the high volume of shopping done on the Internet each day, many consumers fail to make online purchases because of continued reluctance to engage in transactions with intermediaries that are not familiar and trusted, according to a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Using Non-Invasive Tools, UB Geophysicists Find Ancient Settlement Buried Beneath a Roman Fort in Jordanian Desert
    10/30/02
    Using non-invasive geophysical tools -- and without turning one shovel of soil -- a team of University at Buffalo scientists has discovered in the Jordanian desert an ancient Nabatean settlement buried beneath a 2nd-century Roman fort, which itself is buried a few feet below the desert surface.
  • UB Molecular Biochemist Uses Laser Beam as "Tweezers" While Film Captures DNA in the Process of Unwinding
    10/24/02
    Piero Bianco produces movies. Not films that chronicle the human condition, a la Hollywood. His subject is human biology at its most basic -- the translocation and unwinding of DNA by a DNA motor protein. Bianco is the first to record on videotape in real time a molecule of a particular DNA motor protein in the process of "unzipping" a double strand of bacterial DNA.