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Two UB students working with small drones in a UB lab.
Tech giants award UB $150,000 to bring ethics into computer science classes
6/18/19

Ethics in curriculum will be a requirement as opposed to an afterthought, organizers say.

Zhou holds a rare example of three-dimensional graphen, which was printed in Bell Hall.
Congratulations to Chi Zhou, NSF CAREER Award recipient
5/23/19

Zhou is among nine early career researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to receive the award this year.

Kay Stanney.
UB alumna Kay Stanney elected to National Academy of Engineering
5/21/19
Kay Stanney, CEO and founder of Design Interactive Inc. and an alumna of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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Nine engineers receive coveted CAREER awards from National Science Foundation
5/20/19

The grants, which total $4.5 million, show that UB is recruiting the very best early-career faculty.

Jonathan Watts.
SEAS Dean’s Award recipient Jonathan Watts helps students and keeps his father’s vision alive
5/17/19
Jonathan Watts, vice president at Watts Architecture & Engineering, came to the University at Buffalo as a transfer student in 1996. He left his previous college because he felt that UB offered a more comprehensive engineering education, and went on to earn his BS in industrial engineering in 2000 and a BS in civil engineering in 2003.
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Lukasiewicz and Odonkor to address fellow students at SEAS Commencement ceremonies
5/15/19
Later this week, over 1,300 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduates will sit in anticipation, on the cusp of crossing from student life to adulthood, academia to careers, knowledge to application. While they all share the hope and sadness and pride of the moment, each student arrives with their own unique story of how they got there.
Five people in hard hats and reflective vests standing on the grounds of a large recycling facility on a cloudy day.
Cutting carbon
4/26/19

In a UB class, students are helping Western New York companies go greener.

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Inside the journey from 60 trillion possibilities to one Vikings schedule
4/19/19
An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about work by Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a team of researchers that has partnered with the NFL in an attempt to make the league schedule as fair as possible looks at the pluses and minuses of the Vikings schedule.