SEAS in the News

Business First reported that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by UB and Buffalo-based startup POP Biotechnologies has entered human clinical trials in South Korea.

News10.com in Albany reported that the Dept. of Environmental Conservation is partnering with UB to improve tire recycling in New York.

Newsy reported that with deepfake videos becoming much harder to detect, the Defense Department is funding researchers like Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, in what it called a high-tech arms race to outsmart media manipulators.

Spectroscopy Europe World published a report on a quantum-limit-approaching chemical sensing SERS chip under development in the lab of Qiaoqiang Gan, professor of electrical engineering.

Forbes reports that UB researchers are developing a robotic system that relies on machine learning and other technologies to autonomously sort plastics, as well as environmentally responsible solvents that breakdown plastics to make them easier to reuse.

Phys.org, Bioengineering, and other news outlets quoted Peter Q. Liu, assistant professor of electrical engineering, about his research demonstrating a new type of high-performance optical sensor which can utilize the surface tension of liquid as a means of significantly enhancing sensitivity.