Science and Technology

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  • UB School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences To Honor First Woman Graduate
    10/14/99
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is honoring its first woman graduate, Dorothy Price ('49), with its first-ever Vital Partners award for individual achievement.
  • UB School Of Engineering Industry-University Day To Present Council On Competitiveness Innovation Forum
    10/1/99
    Palo Alto, Calif. Albuquerque, N.M. Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo? That's right. Just as these two thriving sunbelt cities did this past spring, Buffalo will host a Council on Competitiveness presentation on innovation on Oct. 28 at the University at Buffalo. It will be held at noon in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Physicist Develops Concept Of An Inkjet Printer That Prints Documents Invisible To The Naked Eye
    9/27/99
    It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: an electronic inkjet printer that prints with invisible ink. But earlier this month, University at Buffalo physicists published a paper in Applied Physics Letters that describes a device that could do just that.
  • Novel Photonic Material Developed At UB Reveals How Human Breast-Cancer Cell Takes Up Anticancer Agent
    9/27/99
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo and Tulane University have, for the first time, optically tracked in real-time the pathway of one of the most widely used cancer drugs linked to a peptide hormone carrier as it is being taken up by a human breast-cancer cell.
  • UB-Squeaky Wheel Project Gives Urban Girls a Leg Up in the Use of New Technologies
    9/20/99
    The University at Buffalo has teamed up with Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources to offer a unique, extracurricular arts-and-technology outreach program for disadvantaged, early-adolescent girls in grades 5-7 that is designed to help them overcome the technological gender gap. UB students majoring in computer art and media study will serve as staff assistants in the program.
  • Severe Damage Predicted If Hurricane Floyd Hits North Carolina’s Southeast Coast
    9/15/99
    A sociologist researching regional development along North Carolina's southeast coast said today that if Hurricane Floyd makes landfall in that region, damage will be very serious -- exacerbated by the area's dramatic population increase over 20 years and the overdevelopment of coastal lands.
  • UB Engineer’s Study Of Turbulence Takes Him To High Seas
    9/14/99
    As director of the Turbulence Research Lab at the University at Buffalo, Clarence resident William K. George, Jr., Ph.D., deals with mathematics and theory daily. But he also enjoys a change in latitude for a different kind of turbulent adventure: sailing.
  • Researchers To Convene To Explore How Computers Can Better Read Handwriting, Music, Even Sanskrit
    9/2/99
    New ways of bridging the gap between the written word and the ability to access it electronically will be on the agenda at the fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) to be held in Bangalore, India on Sept. 20-22. More than three hundred researchers are expected to participate in the conference, which is being sponsored by the University at Buffalo, Pennsylvania State University, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens GmbH, Panasonic and others.
  • UB Investigates How Technology Can Enhance Learning And Lower Instructional Costs
    8/27/99
    The University at Buffalo this fall will begin a two-year project to design and pilot a course in information technology that is expected to enhance the quality of teaching and increase learning while reducing instructional costs by 46 percent.
  • UB Engineer Says Turkey's 'Twin Quake' Occurred Along A Fault Similar To San Andreas Fault
    8/23/99
    The "twin quake" that struck western Turkey last week occurred on a fault that is a "textbook example" of a transform fault like California's San Andreas Fault, according to an engineering seismologist at the University at Buffalo.