Science and Technology

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  • UB Group Proposes Regional Nonprofit Organization To Develop Brownfields
    10/29/99
    The complicated process of revitalizing Western New York's many brownfields could be enhanced and accelerated significantly through the formation of a new, nonprofit organization designed to facilitate such projects, according to a report by a new University at Buffalo group, the Brownfield Action Project (BAP).
  • Information Studies School To Develop New Degree Programs
    10/22/99
    New degree programs related to issues and research on the human aspects of information transfer are being developed by the School of Information Studies (SIS) at the University at Buffalo. The school was formed July 1 when the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) changed its name and merged with the Department of Communication.
  • Grand Opening Of Center For Computational Research Includes Visit By Pataki
    10/22/99
    Gov. George E. Pataki was the guest of honor Oct. 26 at the grand-opening ceremonies of the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers.
  • Minniefield Works To Increase Awareness Of Organ Donation In Minority Communities
    10/20/99
    William Minniefield's determination to convince the African-American community that organ donation is a good and necessary thing has resulted in a major grant award to the University at Buffalo and the regional transplant agency to accomplish that goal.
  • 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.