RIPPIN’ DOWN THE RACER. Nichaela Bald (left) and Sarah Hotung take apart a Fisher-Price Shake ’n Go racer to figure out how it works as part of the 2007 Fisher-Price Cyber-Engineering Workshop for Young Women sponsored by UB's New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation. Helping them is UB alumnae Jeanine Phillips of Fisher-Price. For more details about the workshop, see story in this issue. (Photo: Douglas Levere)
‘UB Believers’ aim to better WNY
A coalition of business and community leaders has formed a new initiative—UB Believers—dedicated to strengthening the Western New York economy today and for future generations through growing UB by 40 percent between now and the year 2020. » Full Story
‘Building UB’ officially begins
UB on Tuesday officially launched "Building UB," the comprehensive physical planning process that is designed, in concert with the UB 2020 strategic plan, to push the university into the top echelon of public research universities. » Full Story
Bridge collapse raises fears. The bridge collapse in Minneapolis last week raises fears about personal safety in most of us, especially those who have suffered past traumas or from personal safety phobias, according to a UB expert on post-traumatic stress disorder.
Workshop engages girls in engineering. Sixteen high school girls are attending a UB workshop designed to engage them in the use of such engineering techniques as computer graphics, motion control and virtual prototyping, to demonstrate the exciting and rapidly changing field of engineering design.
Training in antiviral treatment. A clinical pharmacist from Taiwan is the first graduate of the UB HIV Scholars Program that certifies practicing pharmacists in the management of antiviral treatment for patients with HIV.
Fate of life in the future. A UB physicist told a UBThisSummer audience yesterday that the fate of life in the far-off future seems to hinge on the nature of mysterious forces that currently are only vaguely understood by the world's scientific community.