SEAS News

New technology could one day lead to portable drug detectors.

Kamelia Atefi Monfared, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at UB was an invited speaker at the first-ever International Congress on Clean Cooling. She held a workshop and was a featured speaker in a discussion panel.

The pitch competition was part of a Sustainability Month effort to get students engaged in the clean energy field.

Low-cost device — shaped like a birdhouse — could help provide drinking water to people affected by natural disasters.

The advancement could streamline and boost scientific research all over the world, help computing industry.

Abdulrahman Hassaballah, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, won first place for his research poster in the annual SEAS Graduate Student Poster Competition.

The grants bring UB’s total to five this year, a sign the university is recruiting top-flight early-career faculty.

A team of UB electrical engineering and MBA students took the $20,000 grand prize.

UB researchers are using 3-D printers to make dentures filled with medication to treat infections common in denture wearers.

The awards, worth up to $966,000, will help STEM scholars pursue postgraduate education.