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Two MAE alums have been recently elevated to university leadership positions, adding to a long list of University at Buffalo alums who are currently in prominent positions at academic institutions. 

Souma Chowdhury and two mechanical engineering alumni  received a best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group On Applied Computing’s annual symposium.  

Six students from SEAS participated in a first-of-its-kind study abroad earlier this summer. The students were the first United States cohort to participate in a European Union BEST course, joining European students in Iasi, Romania.

CNN quoted John Crassidis in a story about a Chinese rocket that broke apart in low-Earth orbit, creating a cloud of space debris. 

Utah Public Radio reported that MAE undergraduate students Stanley Smykowski and Mitchell Thurston represented UB’s Nano Satellite Lab at the 38th Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University.

Joseph Distefano was recognized for his exploration into how the growing autonomy of artificial intelligence affects human trust.