Science and Technology

A researcher at the University at Buffalo has developed and patented a new hybrid glass material that could replace traditional silica materials for the analytical-separations columns that are ubiquitous throughout the chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental and biotech industries.

University at Buffalo researchers are developing a system that will allow physicians to use a new form of virtual reality to store information about what they feel during an exam. That information then will be accessible to the examining physician at a later time or to consulting physicians at another location, allowing them to experience the exam as though they had performed it themselves.

Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.

An advanced-certificate program in computational science designed to train science-and-engineering graduate students at the University at Buffalo in scientific computing has been approved by the New York State Education Department and the Chancellor of the State University of New York.

There's a new invader in Lake Erie, though you wouldn't know it to look at it. It's a hybridized water flea, a result of an invader European species mating with the native species, and it may be replacing the native water-flea species in Lake Erie, according to a UB professor who has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study animal hybridization.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has chosen George C. Lee, Ph.D., Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering at the University at Buffalo and director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering (MCEER) at UB, to receive the prestigious Nathan M. Newmark Medal for 2000.

A revolutionary method for synthesizing specialty chemicals --especially pharmaceuticals -- that makes it possible to activate the normally unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds in organic molecules has been developed by a team of University at Buffalo chemists.

From nowhere to the top 50 to the top 15. That's the story of the University at Buffalo's remarkable track record in technology in just the past three years, according to the closely watched "wired schools" arbiter, Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine.

The cleanest, meanest, most economical snowmobile machine isn't yet available in a store near you. It's at the University at Buffalo, thanks to a team of engineering students who recently beat competitors from six other schools at the Inaugural Clean Snowmobile Challenge held in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Oral biologists at the University at Buffalo have found increased levels of the blood-clotting factor fibrinogen in persons with periodontitis, illuminating one pathway for the relationship between poor oral health and heart disease.