SEAS in the News

WGRZ-TV reports on cybersecurity efforts nationwide and locally related to the election. The report mentions that UB computer science students and graduates, under the guidance of professor and cybersecurity expert Shambhu Upadhyaya, have worked with federal agencies safeguarding elections as interns and paid employees.

Business First reports that Stavatti Aerospace has landed in Niagara County, with a goal of creating nearly 600 jobs in the next five years. The story notes that a cooperative educational network that includes UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences helped lure the California-based company to the region.

Health Imaging reports that UB received a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers on a new project to advance musculoskeletal MR imaging.

Niagara Frontier Publications reported that Xiaoliang Zhang, a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is leading a team of researchers who are developing advanced MRI techniques.

The Sunday Post (Glasgow, Scotland) reports that cheating in chess has increased as a result of the game moving online during the pandemic and quotes Ken Regan, associate professor of computer science and engineering, who moonlights as a chess detective.

The Medical News reported on a technique developed by biomedical engineer Jonathan Lovell that could help increase the effectiveness of vaccines against the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes Covid-19.