SEAS in the News

  • New app designed to help detect autism as early as 12 months old
    4/4/18
    A story on WKBW-TV reports on a new app developed by Wenyao Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, that can help detect autism in children as young as 12 months old.
  • Dying on the job: 164 workers killed in Ohio
    4/2/18
    An article in the Dayton Daily News about the March 22 death of a forklift operator at an automotive glass company in Moraine, Ohio, and concerns that high-pressure work environments across the country are causing more injuries on the job interviews Lora Cavuoto, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering.
  • University at Buffalo researchers may have a fix for those pesky potholes
    3/29/18
    An article on New York Upstate reports on UB research on embedding self-powered wireless sensors the size of key fobs under roads in order to provide updates on road condition to transportation planners and drivers with connected vehicles, and quotes Wenayo Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering.
  • On-demand meteor showers may be on the way
    3/28/18
    NBC News quotes John Crassidis, Samuel P. Capen Professor, about a Japanese company’s plans to create on-demand, artificial meteor showers in outer space.
  • Could 'nanowood’ replace styrofoam?
    3/27/18

    An article in Smithsonian magazine about a new super-lightweight insulating material that scientists say could prove to be a better, more eco-friendly alternative to Styrofoam interviews Mark Swihart, UB Distinguished Professor of chemical and biological engineering.

  • Photostriction of molecular 2D nanosheet
    3/27/18
    An article on Nanowerk about photostriction, which allows certain materials to undergo a change in internal strain – and therefore shape – with exposure to light, interviews Shenqiang Ren, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.