Science and Technology

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  • Collaborative Effort with M&T Bank Brings 10 Top Students from India to UB's MBA Program
    5/2/02
    Ten information-technology professionals from India, recruited for the University at Buffalo MBA program with the assistance of M&T Bank, are helping the bank implement new IT applications while boosting the academic profile of the UB MBA program.
  • In Fight Against Cyberterrorism, National Security Agency Names UB "Center for Information Assurance"
    5/2/02
    The National Security Agency (NSA) has named the University at Buffalo a Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education to develop new programs to conduct research and train students to protect the nation's information technology systems from cyberterrorism and security breaches on the Internet.
  • Marketing Software Puts the "Oral" Back in Oral History
    5/1/02
    A University at Buffalo historian has developed a unique application for a software originally developed for the industrial market-research field that has enormous implications for thousands of audio and video history collections held in archives around the world.
  • Pataki, HP President, Veridian CEO to Receive "Igniting Ideas Awards" from UB on May 9
    4/24/02
    Gov. George E. Pataki and the chief executives of two major corporations will be honored on May 9 by UB and its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for their roles in establishing the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • Au Sable Earthquake Points Out Need for Seismic Retrofitting Throughout New York State
    4/23/02
    Though the damage was relatively minor, Saturday's earthquake in Au Sable Falls, N.Y., points out the need for upgrading structures throughout New York State so they are better able to withstand future earthquakes, says an earthquake-engineering researcher at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB, Bioinformatics Representatives to Travel to Capitol Hill as Part of "UB Day in Washington"
    4/22/02
    The past, present and future of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics will be the topic on April 23 as faculty members, staff members and administrators from the University at Buffalo, as well as center partners and representatives of the Buffalo business community, travel to Capitol Hill as part of UB Day in Washington.
  • All-Female Team Led by UB Biologist to Live Under the Ocean to Study Changes Occurring on Coral Reefs
    4/5/02
    A University at Buffalo scientist is leading an all-female research team that will be living and working deep under the surface of the ocean and studying the parentage of a coral reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla.
  • UB Forms Collaboration with Irish Universities, Providing Bioinformatics Center with Critical Global Link
    3/27/02
    The University at Buffalo has entered into a new high-technology partnership with Biopharma Ireland, Ireland's new national institute focused on biopharmaceutical research and development, giving the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics an important international connection.
  • UB Microbiologists Narrow Search for Molecular Structure of Cholera Toxin's Extracellular Transport Signal
    3/27/02
    Working with Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes the severe diarrheal disease of cholera, microbiologists at the University at Buffalo have revealed new information on a cellular signaling system that ultimately will help scientists understand how cholera toxin and virulent proteins of other pathogenic bacteria migrate through their cellular membranes to cause disease.
  • For the First Time in 30 Years of Record Keeping, Some New York Lakes Failed to Freeze This Past Winter
    3/21/02
    In his 30 years of studying freeze-thaw cycles of lakes in New York State, Kenton Stewart, Ph.D., has never seen some lakes in his lake-ice network stay unfrozen for an entire winter unless it was an El Nino year. But things changed with the winter that officially ended on Wednesday. While the majority of lakes still froze, the professor emeritus of biological sciences says "a surprising number" that developed ice covers in previous winters, had only a partial skim of ice this winter, or did not freeze at all during the winter of 2001-02.