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SUNY has awarded UB $2.6 million to hire senior faculty to further research in biomedical engineering, energy and the environment.

UB's Paras Prasad is the 2016 recipient of the SPIE Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the international society for optics and photonics.

The award is the highest honor bestowed by the international society for optics and photonics.

The funds come from SUNY’s Empire Innovation Program, which helps campus efforts to recruit faculty with proven track records of externally-funded research.

UB today officially unveiled Blackstone LaunchPad at UB, a hands-on learning program created by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career option to UB’s students, regardless of major.

The companies expect to create 87 jobs and invest $1 million in the Buffalo Niagara region.

Peter Rive, co-founder and CTO for SolarCity, will present the inaugural lecture in the UB RENEW Distinguished Lecture Series.

The program and resource will serve UB’s approximate 30,000 students, regardless of major or experience.

Engineers tame the notoriously fickle supermaterial in aerogel form with a 3-D printer and ice.

UB students Matthew Falcone and Lily Talal furthered the case that SUNY investment in student research is well spent during a road trip to Albany.