Science and Technology

The family of Yong H. Lee has remembered the 1981 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with an endowed scholarship in memory of the helicopter pilot who died in 1996 in a crash during the initial test flight of a military helicopter bound for the presidential fleet.

Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.

Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.

A new era in supercomputing has arrived at the University at Buffalo, one of just three sites in the world selected by SGI to beta-test Intel's new Itanium™ processor. The other sites are the Ohio Supercomputing Center and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Alex Anas, Ph.D., Frank H. and Josephine L Goodyear Professor in the Department of Economics in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, who has developed a new strategic-planning model that will allow urban planners to examine alternative "what-if" scenarios in advance and predict their consequences, and his interdisciplinary project team have received a $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue their three-year study of the effect of different infrastructure investment-and-financing strategies on the development of metropolitan areas.

The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and the University at Buffalo have received grants totaling $3.13 million to develop new, high-speed methods to determine the molecular structure of proteins, which is essential for designing new drugs to treat, prevent and cure disease.

Reading made easy through technology -- that's the plan behind a $100,000 gift from Verizon to a collaborative literacy project of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo, the Buffalo Public Schools, Computers for Children and EPIC (Every Person Influences Children).

A UB scientist who may have the largest scientific inventory of lake-ice dates in North America, covering more than 250 lakes in New York and several hundred in other states, is providing researchers with new insights into climate change, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteer assistants.

A University at Buffalo professor's research has led him to develop and teach the world's first academic course in a new technique called combinatorial chemistry that has taken the pharmaceutical industry by storm.

University at Buffalo chemists have found that nitric oxide, a common air pollutant and one of the components of acid rain, is highly reactive with ethanol, potentially making the chemical an even more insidious pollutant than has been thought.