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  • A slimmer smartphone means mountains of e-waste
    2/26/15

    An article on Motherboard, the science and technology magazine of Vice Media, examines e-waste research by Sara Behdad, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

  • Overcoming our e-waste problem
    2/18/15

    The reluctance to part with mobile phones, laptops and other gizmos – sometimes called “gadget hoarding” – is part of a larger and more troubling issue: managing electronic waste, or e-waste.

  • Why buddies beat celebrities for diet advice
    2/17/15

    An article on Futurity reports on a UB study that found that people are more likely to start a weight-loss program if a friend was successful.

  • Would you take dieting advice from a friend?
    2/13/15

    Is a new diet or exercise program working for a friend? If so, there’s a good chance that you will try it, too.

  • UB to participate in DOW Big Data Challenge
    2/3/15

    UB will be participating in the 2015 DOW Big Data Challenge. 

  • Paper Entered into ESPN Competition
    1/23/15

    A paper by ISE PhD student Niraj Pandey and recent BS graduate Kyle Cunningham “Alleviating Competitive Imbalance in NFL Schedules: An Integer-Programming Approach” with co-advisors Murat Kurt and Mark Karwan has passed two stages of review/competition and is now in the finals of the 2015 Sloan Sports Analytics conference competition.