SEAS in the News

An article on Durability + Design about a panel that has given the go-ahead for construction of Seattle’s Rainier Square Tower, an 850-foot-tall structure that will feature a composite structural steel frame instead of the traditional steel frame around a reinforced concrete core interviews Michel Bruneau, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering.

An article on Inhabitant reports on research by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, that uses the power of the sun to evaporate and sanitize water at what the researchers report to be record-breaking rates, and notes the invention could be incorporated into water purifiers called solar stills that could help provide drinking water to people in areas affected by natural disasters.

An article on Futurity reports on a low-cost chemical sensing chip developed by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, that could test people for cocaine as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol.

The National Science Foundation’s Science 360 news service features a UB clean water technology as its Picture of the Day. The innovation — developed by a team led by UB Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Qiaoqiang Gan — uses the power of the sun to evaporate and sanitize water at what the researchers report to be record-breaking rates.

An article on Nanowerk reports on research by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, that uses sunlight to generate clean water with near-perfect efficiency.

An article on Futurity reports on research by Ruogang Zhao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, that describes how an updated version of the glass microscope can now enable scientists to see tiny objects while also measuring their temperature.