Science and Technology

A dozen of the area's best and brightest high school students are getting the chance to let loose their imaginations this summer with an intensive workshop in scientific visualization and virtual reality cosponsored by the New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII) and the Center for Computational Research (CCR), both at the University at Buffalo.

Cannon Design, which recently established two graduate scholarships in partnership with the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has named the first two recipients of the awards.

Recognizing that for many teens email has become passé, the University at Buffalo is among the first universities in the country to utilize instant messaging (IM) -- the preferred method of online communication of American teens -- to communicate with prospective students.

A new architecture for next-generation wireless systems for cellular phones proposed by University at Buffalo researchers could provide an efficient and flexible way to extend outdoor coverage, as well as provide indoor coverage, without building additional cellular phone towers.

Nearly 2,700 years after it was buried in the Mesopotamian earth, the crumbled, plundered, and now spectacular palace of the ancient Assyrian King Ashur-nasir-pal II will within the next year open its virtual doors to visitors from around the world. The visit will be made possible by archaeologists, engineers and computer scientists at the University at Buffalo who have been digging with digital tools to produce the next era of instructional devices.

Scientists at the University at Buffalo and Therex Technologies, Inc. have developed a remarkably versatile, antibacterial compound with anti-inflammatory properties that they are investigating as a potential topical treatment for acne and gingivitis and as a preventive agent for skin cancer.

The U.S. Department of Defense has selected the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at the University at Buffalo to lead a world-class consortium in a five-year, $5 million effort to develop new materials in molecular electronics, photonics and opto-electronics to form the basis of a new generation of solar-powered information technology systems.

University at Buffalo graduate Andres Eduardo Losada, a native of Bogota, Colombia, now living in Elma, has been awarded a $10,000 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.

Renowned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from the world of e-business will teach a course on "High-Tech Startups" as part of the CEO-MBA series offered by the University at Buffalo School of Management.

Gov. George E. Pataki has announced the awarding of three major, peer-reviewed grants totaling $25 million from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research to the University at Buffalo and its research partners.