SEAS in the News

  • Innovate WNY - UB researchers using social media to make traffic better
    3/11/16

    A story on WGRZ-TV’s Innovate WNY reports UB, through a research grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, is developing a platform for municipalities to gather crowdsourced social media posts to help predict traffic patterns.

  • A printer and some ice make 3D objects out of graphene
    3/7/16
    An article on Futurity reports an international research team led by UB researchers has used a modified 3-D printer and frozen water to create lattice-shaped cubes and a three-dimensional truss with overhangs using graphene oxide, structures that could be an important step toward making graphene commercially viable in electronics, medical diagnostic devices and other industries.
  • Students aim to attract female engineers
    3/7/16
    An article in Business First reports on a project by three female UB engineering students – Katie Czerniejewski, Julie Fetzer and Dana Voll – who want to bring more women into the engineering profession by turning their summer camp for high school girls, called Tinker, into a nonprofit they hope to spread throughout SUNY and eventually throughout the nation.
  • You can now 3D print one of the world’s lightest materials
    3/1/16
    Articles in MSN Australia, MSN New Zealand and Fox Business report about real-life applications for 3-D printing conducted by UB researchers, who have developed a way to 3-D print materials made out of Graphene aerogel, which is so light it can be used in products to soak up oil spills or make “invisibility” cloaks.
  • Radioactive material missing from Iraqi storage bunker
    2/22/16

    An article in USA Today about radioactive material that has been reported missing from a storage bunker in southern Iraq quotes Chong Cheng, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • The next Athenex? A look at the promising cancer-fighting enterprises in Buffalo
    2/18/16

    An article about the many medical device, diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies in Buffalo dedicated to fighting cancer reports that POP Biotechnologies got its start at UB and is commercializing research from Jonathan Lovell, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, to send a “nano balloon” to a tumor and then zap it with a laser, releasing chemicals locally.