SEAS in the News

  • The worst bridges of Western New York
    4/28/17
    A story on WGRZ-TV about the poor condition of upstate bridges reports a review of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory database found 51 bridges in Western New York received a sufficiency score of 40 or less out of 100, and interviews Jerome O’Connor, executive director of UB’s Institute of Bridge Engineering.
  • Q&A: Michael Silver of the University at Buffalo on job-site robotics
    4/28/17
    An article on BuiltWorlds about the use on job-site robotics interviews Michael Silver, assistant professor of architecture and a member of the Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART) program at UB.
  • Digital manufacturing's digital classroom
    4/25/17
    An article in Smart Industry interviews Tim Leyh, executive director of UB’s Center for Industrial Effectiveness, about a massive open online course focused on using data to make American factories more efficient and competitive.
  • UB students aim to improve lake sustainability via “Erie Hack”
    4/24/17
    A story on WIVB-TV about the 2017 Erie Hack competition aimed at using technology to improve problems like pollution, invasive species and water quality in Lake Erie interviews Ryan McPherson, UB’s chief sustainability officer, as well as UB students Isabel Hall, Mike Brown and George Sklivanitis.
  • "Street furniture" cell towers prompt questions for Verizon
    4/24/17
    An article about plans by Verizon to install a new kind of wireless transmitters called “small cells” to provide better coverage in densely populated areas interviews Zhi Sun, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
  • Hydrogen fuel cell venture wins top Panasci competition prize
    4/14/17
    Articles in the Buffalo News and Business First report Parham Rohani, a doctoral student in chemical and biological engineering, and S. Bruce Kohrn, a business strategist, are the first-place winners of this year’s Panasci Technology Entrepreneurship Competition for their startup, NanoHydroChem, which focuses on hydrogen fuel cell technology.