SEAS News

Building a virtual UB
4/14/16
Students will use the popular Mindcraft video game to create their own version of a virtual UB campus at this year’s Minecraft build-a-thon.
Media Advisory: It’s baaaack!! The great concrete canoe race set for Saturday at Lake LaSalle
4/13/16
The contest and other family-friendly events are part of a statewide student engineering conference at UB.
Annual SEAS awards night honors students, alumni, corporate partners and donors
4/11/16
Giving back to the UB community was the theme of the Annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Awards Night.
Networking with NASA
4/11/16
A conference for SEAS graduate students last week brought reprresentatives of NASA, Moog, Praxair and other companies to Davis Hall.
UB expert urges caution on Great Lakes water diversion plan
4/11/16
There are many unknowns related to changing climate that make it difficult to predict future water level conditions.
Celebrating student achievement
4/8/16
Outstanding scholarly, research and creative activities were recognized yesterday at the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence.
UB STEM summit seeks to advance women in science, technology, engineering and math careers
4/5/16
Connections that extend beyond the classroom are a key to building STEM success.
Women in STEM Summit is April 13
4/5/16
Event aims to raise awareness, promote progression of women in science, technology, engineering and math careers.
Getting a grip
4/4/16
Despite their humanity-threatening roles in sci-fi movies, robots these days tend to perform pretty banal tasks. So if you work in industrial robotics—as does John Amend (BS ’08), co-founder and CTO of Empire Robotics in Boston—it can be tricky to make your product stand out. That’s when it helps to have a robot that plays beer pong.
Storm watcher
4/4/16
In the weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck Long Island in October 2012, engineers were called upon to assess the structural damage to thousands of homes along the South Shore.

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