SEAS in the News

  • 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.
  • Engineers build solar-powered water purifier
    1/31/17
    An article on The Engineer reports a team of UB electrical engineers 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.