The dual legal land systems in the African country lead to exploitation of the poor, according to a paper co-authored by UB urban planner Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah.
The prototype by faculty member Jin Young Song features a structural module with a unique interlocked configuration that is easily assembled by a single worker.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, peace and economic opportunity are percolating, thanks to UB efforts to develop a more inclusive coffee value chain.
Philosopher John Martin Fischer will explain away the alleged out-of-body experiences of those near death as the keynote speaker at UB’s annual Romanell Conference.
UB faculty member Jun-Xu Li has received a $2M NIH grant to look at a receptor that has recently emerged as a novel target for treating drug addiction.
Municipal swimming pools and urban amusement parks flourished in the 20th century. But often their success was based on excluding African Americans, UB’s Victoria Wolcott says.
Engineering professor had a pretty cool job in 1966: working at Bell Aerospace on components for the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the moon.