SEAS in the News

An article on Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, about using airborne lidar, a pulsed laser light technology, to hasten rescues from compromised buildings interviews Chris Renschler, associate professor of geography and an investigator with MCEER.

An article in Modern Steel Construction, a publication of the American Institute of Steel Construction, looks at research by Michel Bruneau, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, that uses a new composite assembly, a concrete-filled composite plate shear wall core system, in the construction of high-rise buildings.

An article in the Thibodaux Daily Comet reports nearly a dozen UB students spent the last week of their winter break doing coastal restoration in Louisiana, and quotes Leah Nola, a mechanical engineering student.

An article on Tech Xplore reports on research by Kwang Oh, associate professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, and colleagues who developed a chip that uses two different types of forces – capillary- and vacuum-driven – to shrink the diagnostic function of a medical lab onto a chip the size of a small coin.

A story on Inside Higher Ed about a new study that showed that perceived gender bias in a given discipline is the primary reason women use for selecting a college major, not the perception that a field is science or math oriented, interviews Liesl Folks, dean of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.