Despite no national or regional competitions this year, UB’s American Society of Civil Engineers (UB ASCE) found success in a number of accolades from the national association. Club leadership will remember this year for a different kind of accomplishment.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has named Rajan Batta as associate dean for faculty affairs and diversity, and appointed Francine Battaglia as chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Alisa Delaj, a mechanical engineering major from Yonkers, has been selected to receive the prestigious Boren Scholarship. She will study at Korea University in a year-long program.
Leslie Ying has been elected Fellow of AIMBE for her “outstanding contributions to the development and biomedical applications of fast magnetic resonance imaging with sparse sampling.”
Jonathan Bessette, Fatak Borhani, Liam Christie and Dennis Fedorishin are among the 14 UB students to receive the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest honor SUNY bestows upon its student.