Environment and Sustainability

News about UB’s environmental programs and related sustainability initiatives. (see all topics)

Media Advisory: UB to launch new Solar Strand app with 150 elementary school students on Earth Day
4/20/15
The app acts like traditional signs in museums and parks – only it’s more interactive.
Media Advisory: Walls up! Construction is underway on UB’s solar-powered GRoW Home
3/23/15
The structure will compete in the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon contest.
In wintry Buffalo, a café heated daily with just six logs of wood
3/10/15
A wood-burning heater designed by UB architects enables the café to stay warm with no mechanical HVAC system.
Adeline “Addie” Levine, noted scholar of Love Canal, dies at 89
3/4/15
Levine, a longtime UB faculty member, died of cancer Feb. 26 in her Buffalo home.
Modeling chimp behavior? Try using laws that govern matter
3/3/15
As habitats shrink, Newton’s Laws of Motion could help us predict how some animals will react, UB researchers say.
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.
CBS to feature UB water lens research
2/4/15
National television cameras came to campus last semester to focus attention on a UB innovation that is attracting worldwide interest.
Did you know? Twelve amazing UB discoveries from 2014
12/31/14
UB researchers made headlines around the world this year with studies on coffee, climate change, babies’ eating habits and more.
UB receives ‘Best of Green Schools’ honor
12/18/14
The university, one of 10 winners nationwide, is cited for best collaboration by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Amit Goyal named director of UB RENEW
12/18/14
Amit Goyal, an internationally recognized materials scientist, has been named director of RENEW, the University at Buffalo’s new interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research and education on globally pressing problems in energy, environment and water.

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