SEAS in the News

  • UB Great Lakes educator gets standing ovation at national conference
    11/9/18
    A story on Great Lakes Today reports Helen Domske, associate director of UB’s Great Lakes Program, received the Vallentyne Award – and a standing ovation – from the International Association for Great Lakes Research for her work in Great Lakes education and research.
  • The future of passwords? Your brain.
    10/27/18
    An article in Fast Company by Wenyao Xu and Zhanpeng Jin, both associate professors of computer science and engineering, looks at their work to invent a new type of biometric involving “brain passwords” that is uniquely tied to a single human being and can be reset if needed.
  • My thoughts are my password, because my brain reactions are unique
    10/25/18
    An article in The Conversation by Wenyao Xu and Zhanpeng Jin, both associate professors of computer science and engineering, looks at their work to invent a new type of biometric that is uniquely tied to a single human being and can be reset if needed.
  • 3D printing: A cheat sheet
    10/24/18
    An article on Tech Republic about 3D printing, common uses and what organizations adopting the technology need to know reports a group of UB researchers have devised a way to match patterns etched onto the surface of a 3D-printed object to the printer that produced it, a discovery that would make it possible to trace 3D printed guns.
  • There’s finally a way to trace ‘untraceable’ 3D printed guns
    10/23/18
    An article on Digital Trends reports on research by Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering, that has discovered the first way to track 3D-printed objects, including guns, using the unique “fingerprints” that 3D printers leave on the objects they produce.
  • Who are China’s top 5 tech billionaires and what was their ‘eureka!’ moment?
    10/22/18
    A story in the South China Morning Post about the ‘Eureka moments’ of China’s top 5 tech billionaires reports that one of them, Robin Li, an alumnus of UB who created Baidu, was inspired to create a search engine when, starting in middle school, he loved going to the library but found it hard to find what he wanted.