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UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recognized as national leader in diversity and inclusiveness
8/15/19

The UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been recognized as an Exemplar Bronze Award recipient by the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program. The program publicly recognizes engineering colleges that make significant progress in increasing diversity and inclusion.

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Mark Swihart named fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
7/23/19

He is a co-holder of five U.S. patents and four pending applications, and a co-author of more than 240 research publications.

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Ogechi Ogoke, 24, on his appetite for entrepreneurship
6/26/19
An article in Business First features Ogechi Ogoke, a UB student pursuing a PhD in chemical engineering, who won UB’s 2018-19 Western New York Prosperity Fellowship and founded a company that won the prestigious Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.
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7 SEAS faculty, staff receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
6/24/19
Three faculty and four staff members from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were among the 25 UB colleagues who have been named recipients of the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, the most recipients from UB in recent history.
UB team awarded $1.8 million to develop carbon capture technology
6/14/19
An article on BioPortfolio reports UB researchers have received $1.8 million in funding to develop membranes that can separate CO2 from other gases, a technology that has the potential to be installed by factories and power plants to cut down the amount of released carbon, and quotes Haiqing Lin, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering.
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UB awarded $1.8m to develop carbon capture technology
6/14/19
An article on Gasworld reports UB researchers have received $1.8 million in funding to develop membranes that can separate CO2 from other gases, a technology that has the potential to be installed by factories and power plants to cut down the amount of released carbon, and quotes Haiqing Lin, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering.
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UB team awarded $1.8 million to develop carbon capture technology
6/12/19

Membranes that separate carbon dioxide from other emissions could help slow the pace of climate change.

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Internationally-renowned engineer Ashutosh Sharma shares the key to success for students – reinvent yourself often and learn from others
5/17/19
Ashutosh Sharma, secretary for the government of India’s Department of Science and Technology and professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), will receive a SUNY Honorary Doctorate in science at this year’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduate commencement ceremony.