It’s often said that engineering is about problem-solving. While some of the problems engineers work to solve are what could be called inconveniences, there are others that affect people’s lives in dramatic ways.
More than 5,000 UB students hail from places other than the United States. We invited three of them to Parkside Candy for ice cream and a freewheeling conversation about their experiences in America and at UB.
UB researchers led by M. Laura Feltri, MD, professor of biochemistry and neurology, have discovered that mechanical forces play a critical role in the formation of myelin.