Rajan Batta, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, and a faculty member of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, joined UB in 1984.
Aidong Zhang, Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, was appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor. She is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of databases, multimedia databases and bioinformatics.
SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence honor and recognize consistently superior professional achievement and encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
Alan Rabideau, an environmental engineering professor with a track record of interdisciplinary research, will serve as the first Research and Economic Development Leadership Fellow.
Buffalo-based research and development firm CUBRC has pledged $250,000 to support Professor John L. Crassidis’ efforts to track dangerous space debris.
Thenkurussi Kesavadas, a UB faculty member since 1996 and director of UB’s Virtual Reality Lab, was elected to ASME “for outstanding engineering achievements.”
Leslie Ying is improving magnetic resonance imaging. Steven Diver is developing a faster, more efficient way to synthesize drugs. Both University at Buffalo researchers will receive $50,000 each from the statewide SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), which cultivates innovation by speeding the commercialization of high-impact SUNY inventions.
What innovations are needed to help people remain in their homes as they age? That question was at the center of the discussion during a workshop organized by UB’s Center for Excellence in Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environments (Home-BASE).
