Science and Technology

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  • UB Education School Receives $495,000 Grant to Develop Technology Education Program for State’s Teachers
    1/24/01
    A consortium that includes the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received a three-year grant through a U.S. Department of Education initiative to develop a model that can be used to infuse technology instruction into teacher-education programs.
  • Software Designed to Help Identify Criminals Who Write Ransom Notes, Forge Checks
    1/24/01
    Who wrote the Jon-Benet Ramsey ransom note? A computer program developed at the University at Buffalo that is 98 percent effective in determining authorship of handwritten documents soon may be able to assist in answering such questions.
  • UB Professor Remembered Through Family Gift for Engineering Scholarships
    1/23/01
    John Zahorjan, a Fisher-Price industrial engineering executive who "retired" to his first love of teaching at the University at Buffalo, has been remembered by his family through a $260,000 pledge to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Venom from Chilean Tarantula May Prevent Potentially Deadly Arrythmias, UB Research Shows
    1/19/01
    A specific protein isolated from the venom of a Chilean tarantula by University at Buffalo biophysicists shows promise as the basis for new drugs for preventing atrial fibrillation, the chaotic beating of the heart that is a major cause of death following a heart attack.
  • Family Gift for Engineering Scholarship Honors UB Alum and Military Helicopter Pilot
    1/16/01
    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.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    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.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    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.
  • University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research Tests Itanium™ Processor for Biological Applications
    1/12/01
    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.
  • NSF Grant Funds UB Study on Economic Effects of Urban-Planning Strategies
    1/10/01
    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.
  • Hauptman-Woodward, University at Buffalo Researchers Receive $3.13 Million for Structural Genomics Research
    12/22/00
    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.