SEAS in the News

An article in The Wall Street Journal about the role geography and building codes played in Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in Mexico City quotes Andreas Stavridis, assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering.

An article in the Buffalo News reports on Tuesday’s Distinguished Speakers Series program by Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist who protested a Taliban ban on education for girls and survived a shooting attack to the face, and who became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, served as moderator. 

A story on WBFO-FM reports former NASA leader Charles Bolden will be on campus today meeting with students and touring UB’s engineering labs. John Crassidis, CUBRC professor of space situational awareness and a member of the Department of Mechancal and Aerospace Engineering, hosted the visit.

An article in the Wall Street Journal about the growing concern over space debris, also called space junk, orbiting Earth quotes John Crassidis, CUBRC Professor in Space Situational Awareness in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who spoke about the proliferation of small satellites known as CubeSats.

An article reports on research by Josep Jornet, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to develop technology that combines implantable sensors, a wearable device and software to better identify and monitor such conditions such a lung cancer.