Science and Technology

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.

It's official: Buffalo's CAT is back. After nearly a decade without a New York State Center for Advanced Technology program that supports industry/university collaborations to drive job creation and economic growth, Buffalo is once again home to a CAT, this time a joint venture between UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI).

A multidisciplinary team of pharmaceutics and computer-science researchers at the University at Buffalo, one of very few teams in the nation applying DNA microarray technology in studies of multiple sclerosis (MS), has developed a method of interpreting the massive amount of information that results from such experiments.

"E-POETRY, 2001: An International Digital Poetry Festival," the first convocation of digital poets and artists gathered to focus on the emerging medium, will be held April 19-21 at the University at Buffalo.

Investigations by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Tokyo into the origins of life and the genetic code have resulted in a method of developing novel proteins that has enormous potential for the biotechnology industry while providing some important clues to answering the question: "How did life begin?"

The world-renowned architectural team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, will be the special guests of Atelier 2001, the annual showcase and open house of the School of Architecture and Planning, to be held April 6 on UB's South Campus.

Consumers bidding for items on eBay or other online auction sites exhibit a peculiar shopping behavior that actually hinders their ability to get a good deal on a desired item, according to a new study of digital consumer behavior by a University at Buffalo researcher.