A platform that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts within institutions by empowering instructors and participants through guided social discussion took first place April 20 at the University at Buffalo’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).

Atrevida Science, a spin-off from the University at Buffalo's engineering school, is looking at ways to make the windmill blades themselves even more high-tech, adapting to shifting winds and concerns from siting opponents.

Stephen T. Koury, research associate professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant that will allow high school students and teachers the opportunity to perform genome sequencing of bacteria.

An editorial in The Buffalo News describes how state funding to UB will help make the university and the region a powerhouse in innovation and research. This funding “could also leverage two federal bonanzas — $100 million from the Economic Development Administration Regional Challenge Grant program and a designation as a $1 billion tech hub under the pending U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. Each could bolster the region’s engineering/tech sector by hundreds of millions of dollars.”

The University at Buffalo has won a nearly $50,000 grant from FuzeHub to partner with a Silver Creek equipment maker on a new mixer for advanced energy materials. UB’s Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics is partnering with S. Howes LLC to develop a new Ploughshare mixer for battery and energy-related materials. The new mixer will greatly improve the mixing and reaction times of energy materials like those used in alkaline ion batteries, photovoltaic cells and other sustainable energy solutions.

Through Cultivator — UB invests up to $100,000 and nine months of mentorship in early-stage companies founded by students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.

UB has a number of chemist entrepreneurs, including Janet Morrow, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Larkin Chair in the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences. Morrow is also co-founder and chief science officer of Ferric Contrast Inc., where she is leading efforts to develop iron-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Wayne Bacon, a Buffalo industrialist turned entrepreneur, launched a medical device venture almost eight years ago, hoping to create an adhesive bandage with infection-fighting ingredients. University at Buffalo medical school researchers had a different idea: Why not focus on an experimental concept to use electrical stimulation to help joint-replacement patients fight off infections?

In the summer of 2021, CCR brought online a new industry cluster that's aiding local businesses to innovate & bring their ideas to market faster than ever.

The University at Buffalo’s (UB) Center for Computational Research (CCR) offers unique opportunities to Western New York’s many businesses. CCR provides dedicated converged high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities with a new HPC + AI compute cluster. The new cluster, built by Dell Technologies using Intel® Xeon® Gold 6330 processors, enables a large community of customers to develop innovative solutions through simulation, modeling, and machine learning.

The Empire Discovery Institute and global pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S have formed a five-year partnership to commercialize life sciences research from the institute’s academic partners, including the University at Buffalo.

The pace of startup funding last year smashed previous records. Can Buffalo startups keep up the momentum?

UB and Stony Brook University have been designated the “flagships” of SUNY by Gov. Kathy Hochul, recognizing the two institutions for their status among the nation’s leading public research universities.

During the current surge of COVID-19 cases in Western New York, a dedicated team of University at Buffalo scientists has been busy sequencing and analyzing as many as 1,000 viral samples every week.

Rick Gardner, a senior product development and management executive who oversees startup ventures at UB, will become the university's new associate vice president for economic development. Gardner will replace Christina Orsi, who held the role for nearly seven years and was recently named president of the John R. Oishei Foundation.

With roughly $400,000 in federal grants, the company is developing a turbine blade that automatically adjusts to changing winds.

The rank of distinguished professor is an order above full professorship and has three co-equal designations: distinguished professor, distinguished service professor and distinguished teaching professor.

Using artificial intelligence, a team of UB researchers has developed a novel system that models the progression of chronic diseases as patients age.

The startups are advancing projects that could help fight diseases ranging from COVID-19 to cancer to diabetes.

In Science Advances, scientists report successfully freeze-drying specialized liposomes that could be developed for use in future vaccines.