MCEER director: Preparing for the next disaster

The current (Sept. 19) issue of BusinessWeek features as its cover story an article on earthquake and disaster risk in the U.S that quotes Michel Bruneau, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering and director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, who says that in a disaster, "the three most important things are power and water, acute-care facilities like hospitals and response-and-recovery capabilities. Strengthen these three and you are better prepared to deal with almost all eventualities." Go to article. It's the second BusinessWeek cover story featuring UB news in a little more than a month. An article in the Aug. 8 issue of Business Week on the growth of the surveillance technology industry looks at work being conducted by Frank V. Bright, professor of chemistry, to create super-sensors that pick up myriad molecules released at low concentrations that constitute human scents. Go to article.