Kennedy Colon is building a pipeline. While she’s a civil engineer, the pipeline she’s talking about is for students from disadvantaged and minority communities to get to STEM at UB – and succeed once they’re here.
Later this week, over 1,300 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduates will sit in anticipation, on the cusp of crossing from student life to adulthood, academia to careers, knowledge to application. While they all share the hope and sadness and pride of the moment, each student arrives with their own unique story of how they got there.
Adrienne Decker, assistant professor in the newly formed Department of Engineering Education in UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is participating in the 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase, a virtual poster competition being held this week, from May 13-20.
Eleven members of AIAA's student chapter attended Congressional Visits Day, which brought together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, and technology executives to raise visibility and support for science, engineering, and technology.
A UB pediatrician has developed an incubator matrress that will provide the most fragile premature infants with the benefits of direct bodily contact with their parents.
Kemper Lewis is the recipient of the 2019 ASME Donald N. Zwiep Innovation in Education Award, which recognizes those who have demonstrated exemplary contributions to the advancement of mechanical and multidisciplinary project-based engineering education.