SEAS in the News

  • Wearable tech: trend or fad?
    2/6/17
    An article about the growing use of wearable technology interviews Albert Titus, professor and chair of biomedical engineering, who said the growth of wearable tech can be traced to our ability to miniaturize technology.
  • Researchers develop cheap sunlight powered water-purifier
    2/6/17
    An article on IFL Science reports on research by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, to develop a cheap solar still that uses sunlight to purify dirty water up to four times faster than a current commercial version, and quotes Gan and Haomin Song, a UB electrical engineering student.
  • Changes are coming, climatically speaking
    2/3/17
    An article in Business First about weather changes Buffalo can expect in coming decades as a result of climate change interviews Helen Domske, associate director of UB’s Great Lakes Program.
  • Sunlight-powered purifier could clean water for the impoverished
    2/3/17
    An article in Science Magazine reports on research by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, to develop a cheap solar still that uses sunlight to purify dirty water up to four times faster than a current commercial version.
  • ‘Solar vapor’ device purifies dirty drinking water
    2/2/17
    An article on Futurity reports a team of UB researchers have found a highly efficient and inexpensive way to turn saltwater and contaminated water into potable water for personal use using sunlight, plastic and carbon-dipped paper.
  • Researchers build solar-powered water purifier
    2/1/17
    An article on NASA Tech Briefs reports on research by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, that found a highly efficient and inexpensive way to turn saltwater and contaminated water into potable water for personal use using sunlight, plastic and carbon-dipped paper.