Science and Technology

Elaine M. Hull, Ph.D., professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has received a $602,759 Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an arm of the National Institutes of Health.

Huw M.L. Davies, Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has received a prestigious Focused Giving Award from Johnson & Johnson.

The University at Buffalo is launching a major, online, environmental-education project with the Jane Goodall Institute and its founder, primatologist Jane Goodall. The project, "Taking Gombe to the World Through Technology," was developed in connection with the 40th anniversary of Goodall's internationally regarded primate research project in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park.

Anthony Auerbach, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo biophysicist, has been selected to receive a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award totaling $2.7 million over seven years from the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), an arm of the National Institutes of Health.

Biophysics researchers at the University at Buffalo have been selected by the Japan Science and Technology Ministry to be its international collaborator on a $10 million research project aimed at understanding the mechanical sensitivity of cells.

A year-long multidisciplinary research and construction project by the University at Buffalo will produce a new form of public art that was designed specifically for the City of Buffalo, but which can serve as a model for cities seeking to reclaim their histories. It is a massive, 24-page, sculptural book comprised of two-dimensional historical and conceptual maps, buildings, icons and other visual historical data -- all cast in bronze -- that will articulate significant events and benchmarks in the history of Buffalo.

Hardboiled Beltway insiders probably think they know all there is about just how "virtual" reality can get. But on July 12 on the third floor of the Cannon Building on Capitol Hill, members of Congress got the chance to truly experience virtual worlds, courtesy of a University at Buffalo exhibit on virtual reality.

The New York State Department of Education has approved the University at Buffalo's new bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering, the first and only one of its kind at a public institution in the state.

After years of limited access on the part of students, higher education in the Caribbean received a major boost this summer when the University at Buffalo put the region's first distance-learning WebBoard online at the University of the West Indies (UWI).

Withdrawal from cocaine is no picnic, but a study by a researcher at the University at Buffalo has shown that it may not involve the wrenching ups and downs and intense cravings that specialists in the field have considered the norm.