SEAS in the News

  • Engineer is steering Buffalo into the driver-less boat field
    5/3/18
    A story on WIVB-TV interviews Thiru Vikram a UB student turned CEO of Buffalo Automation, about technology he is working on to develop a self-driving boat.
  • Commerce Department's space mission: tracking junk in low-Earth orbit
    5/2/18
    An article in the Washington Examiner about the need to track the space debris circling in low-Earth orbit interviews John Crassidis, director of UB’s Center for Multisource Information Fusion and Samuel P. Capen Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who said space junk in low-Earth orbit consists of items such as rocket bodies and debris from collisions, and will eventually come down.
  • Drug-filled, 3-D printed dentures could fight off infections
    4/27/18
    An article on 3DPrint reports on research by Praveen Arany, assistant professor of oral biology in the UB School of Dental Medicine, to develop new 3D printed dentures filled with microscopic capsules containing antifungal medication to help fight oral infections known as denture-related stomatitis.
  • These dentures deliver drugs to battle infection
    4/26/18
    An article on Futurity reports on research by Praveen Arany, assistant professor of oral biology in the UB School of Dental Medicine, to develop new 3D printed dentures filled with microscopic capsules containing antifungal medication to help fight oral infections known as denture-related stomatitis.
  • Wind energy’s swift growth, explained
    4/24/18
    An article in The Conversation by John Hall, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, examines how much wind energy has grown domestically and abroad, and predicts that wind power will continue to grow.
  • Women in STEM battle gender bias
    4/24/18
    A story on Great Lakes Today about gender bias in the STEM fields and what women are doing to change it interviews Liesl Folks, dean of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, about the NAVIGATE project aimed at giving students the tools to fight against gender bias.