The project focuses on improving transportation options for people with disabilities, low-income neighborhoods and older adults.
UB awarded $2 million NSF grant to advance sorting methods, and develop processing technologies to make discarded plastic easier to reuse.
Participants include Fortune 500 companies, the chairman of the FCC, military leaders and community development officials.
Researchers will simulate and help design safe, low-cost motors to propel nanosatellites, other vehicles into space.
From the science of taste to transistor technology to understanding plate tectonics and volcanoes, the funded projects will address issues of societal importance.
Multidisciplinary UB research group awarded nearly $2 million from DEC to assess plastic recycling industry, educate public.