Wenyao Xu is part of a team of University at Buffalo researchers, led by the School of Nursing, who will help adults living in low-income, racial- and ethnic-minority neighborhoods reduce stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The award recognizes a young researcher, who is within seven years of their terminal degree, for their notable contributions to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems.
UB engineer Shenqiang Ren partners with Buffalo companies to develop cooling clothing to improve human performance when exerting energy in warm environments.
Rajan Batta has been named editor-in-chief of the Socio-Economic Planning Sciences journal, a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering socio-economics as it relates to development economics and public policy.
Students from the UB Biomedical Engineering Society chapter collaborated with the SEAS Intramural program to work with Saebo, a biomedical device company, on improving the SaeboFlex glove, the current market standard for hand rehabilitation.
Buffalo Automation, a starup company with UB roots, is piloting a new project called Bifrost that uses thermal imaging to take the temperatures of multiple people at once.
Shaopeng Li, a PhD student specializing in wind engineering won the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Multi-Hazard Engineering Collaboratory for Hybrid Simulation (MECHS) three-minute thesis competition.
UB engineering professor Ian Bradley and his research group are collaborators on a $2 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy that will study the use of algae to purify wastewater while simultaneously producing biomass for fuel production.
Aerospace engineering student Rachael Gold won first place in the undergraduate category at the WE Local Des Moines Collegiate Competition for her research on eliminating debris in space.