SEAS in the News

IEEE Spectrum reports on how Russ Miller, UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computing Science and Engineering, is teaching introductory courses in computer science that focus on parallel algorithms – a departure from the norm.

StemCell Therapy reported on UB research, led by UB chemical and biological engineering professor Stelios T. Andreadis, which found adult skin cells can be converted into stem cells without genetic modification.

Surgical Products Magazine reported on a new tool being developed by UB associate professor Victor Paquet that will help identify poor posture in surgeons in the operating room.

An article on Medical Xpress about “alarm fatigue,” the idea that nurses or doctors can become desensitized to the nonstop cacophony of beeps that patient-monitoring devices make, reports a UB-led research team is developing a computer-based tool to identify these auditory blind spots, and quotes Matthew Bolton, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering.

An article on Futurity reports on a study that UB researchers used to develop a tool to help surgeons improve their posture in the operating room to reduce back and neck pain, and quotes Victor Paquet, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering.

An article on Front Line Genomics reports on UB research that showed that adult skin cells can be converted into neural crest cells, a type of stem cell, without any genetic modification, and that these stem cells can yield other cells that are present in the spinal cord and the brain.