A new round of Civic Engagement Research Fellowships are available for UB faculty for 2010-11. This program has been expanded, now giving UB researchers the opportunity to choose between two options:
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Single course replacement up to a value of $3,500
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Research grant of up to $3,500
These Research Fellowships advance applied research and engaged scholarship that address social and policy challenges and require collaboration with a non-UB partner, and will confront issues ranging from local to global. This fellowship program supports participatory research proposals that have the potential to evolve into larger studies that not only advance knowledge but will make a difference in the lives of external constituencies. The program also actively encourages submission of external grant proposals.
Application deadline: Monday, February 22, 2010.
Proposals are invited from UB full-time faculty members. Fellowship application details are available online here, and from program coordinator, Laura Mangan, at Lmangan@buffalo.edu, 9 Norton Hall, or call (716) 645-5376.
The Fellowship Program is an initiative of the UB 2020 Strategic Strength in Civic Engagement and Public Policy (CEPP).
Posted January 28, 2010 in CEPP
Folarin Erogbogbo, a current PhD student in UB’s Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, introduces a paper from Dr. Swihart’s research group that investigates the potential for using silicon quantum dots in the diagnosis and imaging of cancer cells. The video accompanies the article’s publication in ACS Nano, a prominent journal in nanoscience and related technologies. Folarin’s work with Dr. Swihart’s group represents just one of the many cutting-edge research projects taking place in Integrated Nanostructured Systems at UB that will have a great impact on our society.
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Posted August 15, 2008 in INS
The UB2020 Strategic Strength in Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems and Bioinformatics invites you to a one-day minisymposium entitled: Infectious Disease and Pathogen Discovery
The minisymposium will be held on Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the Zebro Room, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Buffalo NY.
Symposium schedule, registration, and more information (PDF).
Posted September 23, 2008 in MRBSB
A novel nanosensor, developed by the Rutgers-JPL-UB team, offers unprecedented sensitivity in the THz range, which contains 98% of the light emitted since the Big Bang. The paper “Ultrasensitive hot-electron nanobolometers for terahertz astrophysics,” recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 496 (2008) has demonstrated that manageable electron-phonon kinetics together with ultrasmall electron heat capacity in nanostructures provide wide possibilities for significant improvement of detectors, quantum counters and calorimeters.
The developed technology will help astronomers to observe very distant galaxies as they were in the Early Universe. As a magic time-machine, the detector will allow them to see the first light in the Universe, which was generated in the processes of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago. Besides astrophysics, these nanodevices are promising for quantum information technologies and quantum metrology.
News & views articles are highlighting this research:
www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n8/full/nnano.2008.221.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080710155246.htm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1783
http://www.nano.org.uk/news/july2008/latest1488.htm
Posted October 15, 2008 in INS
Several of the course offerings for the Spring 2009 semester may be of interest to graduate students working in areas related to Integrated Nanostructured Systems. Please refer to the following links or contact the appropriate professor(s) for further information:
MAE 589: Diffraction, Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques (PDF)
CHE 510: Materials Chemistry (PDF)
CHE 514: Polymer Chemistry (PDF)
Posted December 1, 2008 in INS
In December 2008, at the invitation of the Russian government and Rusnano, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, two UB professors participated in Rusnanotech ’08, a major, international conference about the future of nanotechnology. SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., gave the invited plenary talk, addressing approximately two thousand scientists and officials from around the globe on “Nanotechnology and Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century.” He described the groundbreaking work that he and his colleagues are doing at the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Natalia M. Litchinitser, Ph.D., who conducts research on nanophotonics and nonlinear optics, also attended. She presented an invited talk about her research on metamaterials entitled “Metamaterials–Unparalleled Opportunities for Light Manipulation.” Both professors work closely with the UB 2020 Strategic Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems.
This conference is part of a recently announced $5 billion effort by the Russian government to support nanotechnology. Talks regarding possible research collaborations between UB and Russian scientists are being pursued. Professor Prasad mentioned that UB may host some of these Russian scientists in the spring or summer of 2009.
Other WNY attendees of the conference included Keith Blakely, Chief Executive Officer of NanoDynamics, Michael Fonstein, CEO of Cleveland Biolabs, and Ravi Pandey and Andre Gudkov of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
To view selected footage of the proceedings, please click here.
Posted January 6, 2009 in INS
Jason Corso, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was recently awarded a grant from the DARPA Computer Science Study Group Program. This program aims to fund work in computer science that will revolutionize operations at the DoD rather than make incremental advances. The first phase of this award will provide $99,600 in funding to Corso’s work, which in this proposal focuses on innovative uses of automatic computer learning from video.
Short synopsis of the proposal:
“The main objective of this proposal is to understand how probabilistic ontologies of visual phenomena can be induced directly from video thereby revolutionizing our ability to rapidly learn a probabilistic low-to-high level domain model directly from data and use it to automatically infer a comprehensive yet parsimonious semantic description with quantitative underpinnings of video.”
Posted January 21, 2009 in ICT
Sponsored in part by the UB2020 Strategic Strengths and organized by the Information and Computing Technology (ICT) initiative, the purpose of the 2008 Fall Workshop was to promote and facilitate faculty-led, multi-disciplinary research projects related to information science, human-computer interaction, or computational science. An anticipated outcome of this workshop is to increase research, scholarship, and funding to these ICT-related areas.
The workshop was well attended, representing many UB departments such as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, the Center for Computational Research (CCR), Management Science and Systems, Mathematics, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Communication, and the Office of the Provost. ICT faculty members were fortunate in that a number of key individuals from the university attended the workshop, including: Rajan Batta, Associate Dean of Graduate Education; Alex Cartwright, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives; Bharat Jayaraman, Chair of Computer Science and Engineering; David Kofke, Chair of the Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Satish Tripathi, Provost.
The event was hosted and moderated by Venu Govindaraju, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the ICT initiative. In the morning, new faculty members hired under the auspices of ICT each provided a brief description of their academic and professional backgrounds and current research interests while displaying their individual ICT website faculty profile. This was followed by brief presentations by ICT faculty members, a discussion on the ICT website progress, and proposal coordination process.
Workshop Minutes (pdf)
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Posted January 23, 2009 in ICT
Cemal Basaran, a Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, and an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, recently had his work on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) featured by several dozens of international newspapers, magazines, and trade publications, such as The Times of India, Semiconductor International, Science Daily and Daily News. After a press release from UB regarding his findings that SWCNTs produce only 1% of the resistive heating of metals typically used in microelectronic interconnects, Semiconductor International contacted Professor Basaran for an exclusive interview about this important discovery. Please join us in congratulating Professor Basaran on these recent publications.
To read the full text of the published articles, please follow the links below:
Semiconductor International
Science Daily
Posted April 8, 2009 in INS
Natalia Litchinitser, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UB, and Vladimir Shalaev, Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, published their commentary on developing low-loss metamaterials in the February issue of Nature Photonics. In the article, they discuss recent work proposed by Alexander Popov and Sergey Myslivets that utilizes the traditionally problematic losses of metamaterials as a pathway to transparent or amplified negative-index media. This technique of backward optical parametric amplification (OPA) which they describe could lead to exciting developments in metamaterials in areas such as invisibility and cloaking. Professor Litchinitser also recently presented her research on photonic metamaterials to other UB faculty members at one of the INS lunchtime informal seminars.
To read the full commentary in Nature Photonics, please click here: Natalia Litchinitser & Vladimir Shalaev, “Loss as a Route to Transparency” (PDF)
Posted February 3, 2009 in INS
The Information and Computing Technology Strategic Initiative sponsored “ICT Day,” an event dedicated to academic pursuits related to this Strategic Strength. ICT Day featured lectures throughout the day by both UB faculty and several distinguished external speakers in the areas of Enabling Discovery and Smart Environments. A poster session open to student and faculty participants was also held.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 – 9:45 am: Breakfast in the Flag Room
9:45 – 10:00 am: Opening Remarks, Venu Govindaraju, Chair of the ICT Faculty Advisory Committee and Alex Cartwright, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
Session I
Chair: Bharat Jayaraman, Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
12:00 – 2:00 pm: Lunch (meet and greet with the Provost) and Poster Session in the Flag Room
Session II
Chair: E. Bruce Pitman, UB Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Mathematics
4:00 – 5:00 pm: Reception in the Flag Room
Posted June 2, 2009 in ICT
