Growth spurred by interest in AI, investments in faculty and computing infrastructure, including $400 million Empire AI consortium.

The new building will support students and programs in the rapidly growing School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Lewis has been elected to serve as a director on the American Society for Engineering Education’s Engineering Deans Council Executive Board.

Kemper Lewis, professor and dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general science society.

Buffalo Business First reported on local health care companies that are partnering with universities to grow their talent pipeline, and covered how Nissha Medical Technologies is working with Dean Kemper Lewis to form a collaboration with SEAS.

Kemper Lewis, dean of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will serve a two-year term on the board of directors of TechBuffalo.

Buffalo Business First featured Dean Kemper Lewis in an article that notes the school has added more than 2,000 students over the past decade, outgrowing its current facilities footprint and prompting UB to make plans for a new $102 million engineering building.