ASEE's First Bell reports that the Department of Energy awarded UB and partners a $1.9 million grant to develop carbon capture techniques. The UB team is lead by Haiqing Lin and Mark Swihart, both in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
A story on WBFO-FM interviews Andreas Stavridis, assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, about his recent trip to Nepal.
An article in Business First features Rohini Srihari, who has returned full-time to her job as professor of computer science at UB after selling Content Savvy in 2014.
An article in MIT Technology Review reports Nils Napp, UB assistant professor of computer science, and a colleague at Harvard have designed two “builder bots” that can be deployed as disaster relief agents.
First Bell, a newsletter of the American Society for Engineering Education, cites a report from WBFO-FM that the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has joined a White House effort to bring greater diversity to the science and technology fields.