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  • Tweets may ease winter travel
    12/10/15

    Qing He, Stephen Still Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering and Logistics, was interviewed by The Weather Channel’s “Weekend Recharge” for a story about weather-related tweets. He was also featured on WKBW-TV's monthly Buffalo Niagara 360 Spotlight Professional Series as a rising star in transportation engineering.

  • Could Twitter be as helpful as a snow plow?
    12/3/15

    UB researchers found that Twitter can provide fairly sensitive data about not only current weather conditions, but the condition of roads and highways.

  • IEEE Women in Engineering East Summit seeks to triple the number of female leaders
    11/16/15

    IEEE student members Katherine Czerniejewski, Julie Fetzer, and Dana Voll discussed Tinker, the STEM camp they launched at UB to encourage high school girls to pursue STEM studies, at an IEEE summit on women in engineering.

  • Graduate and Undergraduate Prizewinners at INFORMS Conference
    11/10/15
    PhD Student Alireza Farasat received second place in the Interactive Poster Session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Nov 1-4, for his poster "Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Future Paradigm of Educational Environments."
  • ISE Faculty Honored with UB and SUNY Awards
    11/5/15

    SUNY Distinguished Professor Rajan Batta and ISE Chair Ann Bisantz were honored October 22 at UB's Annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence. Batta received UB's Graduate Student Mentoring Award, while Bisantz received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Activities. 

  • Professor Li Lin to Lead Global Health Initiative
    11/5/15

    Professor Li Lin is co-lead of UB's Community of Excellence in Global Health Equity, which will approach the grand challenge of global health inequity by bringing together faculty and students from the health sciences and disciplines that are focused on the social, economic, political, and environmental conditions that lead to inequities.