Published June 30, 2022
WGRZ reports on UB’s plans for a new $102 million building on North Campus to accommodate the growth of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The project is supported by $68 million from Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers. Dean Kemper Lewis said “our enrollments have just exploded over the last few years in some key areas. Computer science and data science and artificial intelligence, robotics and aerospace engineering. We're just busting at the seams now."
The report also featured UB students Chet Knoer and Ben Jacobs; both are part of the UB Nanosatellite Lab. "I want to work on interplanetary missions eventually. The focus of my research is on data science," Knoer said. Jacobs, who is interested in space habitats, said: "If you want to make big structures in space, you need a lot of materials, and the likeliest place to get them with mining of minerals is from asteroids."