Science and Technology

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  • “Operation Mother Hen” Web-Based Review Tool Helps UB Students Struggling With Calculus
    4/7/00
    The Department of Mathematics in the UB College of Arts and Sciences has teamed up with UB Science and Engineering Node Services staff to develop "Operation Mother Hen," a unique Web-based review tool that has virtually banished the old survival-of-the-fittest mentality for "Introduction to Calculus" at UB. In its place is a system that acts like a nurturing "mother hen," rescuing and supporting students who are struggling with the material.
  • UB Program Strives To Make Freshman Year For Engineering Students Kinder and Gentler (If Not Easier)
    4/7/00
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has begun the Student Excellence Initiatives, a unique program that aims to make freshman year for engineering students easier to manage academically and less emotionally agonizing.
  • UB Architects Receive $3 Million Federal Grant To Establish Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
    4/6/00
    The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
  • Flanagan Receives Fulbright To Conduct Research In Taiwan
    4/4/00
    Mary Flanagan, assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been selected by the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship Program.
  • A Lean, Mean Electronic Poetry Machine Proves April Is Not the Cruelest Month
    3/30/00
    April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
  • UB Media Artist Receives International Honors For Innovative Online Multimedia Production
    3/22/00
    Media artist Mary Flanagan, assistant professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, had her work selected for exhibition in "VRML-ART 2000," the annual international media art conference held last month in Monterey, Calif.
  • UB Geologist’s Study Of Volcanoes On Earth May Help Determine If There Ever Was Life On Mars
    3/15/00
    Was there ever life on Mars? That question may one day be answered in part by research now being conducted by a University at Buffalo geologist who studies volcanoes on earth.
  • Gift From Myricom Speeds Up UB’s Supercomputer
    3/15/00
    You can never have a computer that's too fast. That's the thinking of University at Buffalo researchers in the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR), who received a $139,680 equipment donation that will speed up processor communications nearly 100-fold. Myricom, Inc. has donated leading-edge Myrinet interfaces and switches that have been integrated into the CCR dual-boot Linux/Solaris Sun Microsystems cluster.
  • UB Geologists Find Evidence That Upstate New York Is Criss-Crossed By Hundreds Of Faults
    3/14/00
    Mention New York State's Finger Lakes region or its Southern Tier, and most people don't automatically think of earthquake country. But these upstate areas may be about to gain a reputation for greater seismic potential, according to recent research by a team of University at Buffalo geologists.
  • UB Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the University at Buffalo have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.