Science and Technology

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  • UB Architect Honored for Producing One of the Year's Hottest Industrial Designs
    9/13/02
    Abir Mullick of Buffalo, professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, is one of 174 international recipients of the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence Awards presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America and Business Week magazine.
  • Action of Critical Component in Immune System Activation Described for First Time by UB Scientists
    9/10/02
    Immunologists from the University at Buffalo are the first to describe a human immune system component known to be essential to controlling the activation of T-cells, the first line of defense against foreign antigens.
  • Mexico's Zapatista Guerillas Helped Activist Groups Form Vast Global Communications Network on the Internet
    9/10/02
    The World Wide Web has provided an online community for a vast number of unrelated activist non-governmental organizations (NGOs), facilitating communication between them and integrating them into multinational entities that can operate on a global scale, according to a study by a University at Buffalo communication researcher.
  • Government, Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Funding UB's Rise to Prominence in Bioinformatics and Supercomputing
    9/3/02
    The Dell supercomputer cluster unveiled today at the University at Buffalo is the result of a unique partnership between corporate, government and non-profit institutions that is establishing UB and the Buffalo Niagara region as a worldwide leader in supercomputing and bioinformatics.
  • More Than 2,000 Dell Servers to be Used for Advanced Research at UB
    9/3/02
    Dell and the University at Buffalo today announced one of the largest clusters of Linux servers ever at a U.S. educational institution.
  • Projects Funded by SPIR Program Credited with Saving More Than 900 Jobs, Revenue Increases of $24 Million
    8/23/02
    The local branch of the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Insurgence (SPIR), an economic stimulus program based in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, provided an estimated $160,000 in project support to Western New York companies during its 2001-2002 fiscal year.
  • Early Detection of Bioterrorist Threat or Epidemic Is Goal of Software System for Medical Emergencies
    8/20/02
    Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo who developed handwriting recognition software systems for the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Census Bureau are developing a system to flag suspicious patterns in emergency medical reports and make them available to public-health authorities within days, if not hours.
  • Preeminent Scientists Named to Scientific Advisory Board for Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
    8/15/02
    Seven preeminent, world-class scientists in the fields of genomics, chemistry, biophysics, proteomics and computational biology have been named to the Scientific Advisory Board for the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • Flare-Ups of Chronic Lung Disease Associated with Specific Bacterial Strains, UB Researchers Find
    8/14/02
    University at Buffalo researchers have found an association between bacteria in the sputum of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and exacerbations of the disease, answering a long-standing question about the role of pathogens and COPD flare-ups.
  • "Living Anatomy Program" Simulator Aims to Revolutionize Surgical Training
    8/8/02
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo are combining 21st-century materials and computerized sensors to create a simulator for surgical training with "organs" that feel, smell and respond like living tissue in the human body.