In a live and online Webcast seminar, structural engineers and social scientists who were dispatched to New Orleans and Mississippi in the days after Katrina hit will describe the vast devastation they saw and discuss strategies for improving U.S. resilience and response to natural disasters, terrorist attack and other extreme events.
Robert Granfield notes that although most reports of criminal mayhem reported by government officials and press alike in Katrina's aftermath never actually occurred, the stories tell us much about the American psyche, what Americans believe about the poor and minorities, and what they expect in a time of disaster.
"If geology were a religion, this map would be its bible," said Robert Jacobi, Ph.D., UB professor of geology. The 1815, hand-tinted, 10-foot-by-six-foot map is the world's first geologic map and it's now on exhibit at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.
On Oct, 3, MCEER and UB will send three teams of researchers to New Orleans to study damage to structures and lifelines; transportation and hospital decisions and remote sensing. Another team will travel to New Orleans on Oct. 19 to study environmental and health issues.
The desire to assign cosmic significance to the arrival of hurricanes Katrina and Rita is an example of humankind's ages-old need to find reason within chaos, according to University at Buffalo anthropologist Phillips Stevens Jr., Ph.D.
Just weeks after they fled New Orleans, many victims of Hurricane Katrina housed in shelters in Texas are having difficulties dealing emotionally with the disaster, particularly when another destructive hurricane headed toward the state where they took refuge, according to Nancy J. Smyth, Ph.D.
The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials scientist and inventor of "smart concrete."
Effective mitigation of extreme natural phenomena through integrated environmental management with the perspectives of geomorphologists and ecosystem scientists is the focus of the 36th International Geomorphology Binghamton Symposium, Oct. 7-9 at the University at Buffalo.
Heroin addicts trying to kick the habit often profoundly grieve their lost "relationship" with the needles they use to inject the drug, according to a new study by a University at Buffalo doctoral student.
Efficient and highly scalable new chemical synthesis methods developed at the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics have the potential to revolutionize the production of quantum dots for bioimaging and photovoltaic applications.
The effect of military culture on women's lives -- from the experiences of servicewomen in Iraq, to human rights violations against women, to the plight of homeless female veterans -- will be examined at a conference to be held Sept. 15 and 16 in the Center for the Arts Screening Room on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
Media discussion of race and class in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has done the country a great disservice by oversimplifying and distorting what is fundamentally a very complex problem, according to a sociologist.
Demand for unskilled labor to clean up after Hurricane Katrina will help drive economic recovery in New Orleans, according to an economist at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
Experts from the University at Buffalo are available to comment on the various social, technological and economic aspects of Hurricane Katrina and its wake of devastation. Contact information and a summary of their thoughts is below.
A reconnaissance team from University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research will travel next week to Gulfport, Biloxi and other areas of Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina to determine the specific causes behind the failures of large engineered structures, primarily commercial buildings.
Experts from the University at Buffalo are available to comment on the various social, technological and economic aspects of Hurricane Katrina and its wake of devastation.
America's compulsive preoccupation with serial killers and their place in American culture is the subject of a new book.
A $3 million Department of Defense appropriation to Buffalo BioBlower Technologies LLC, a spin-off of the University at Buffalo, announced today by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, will allow the new company to begin commercializing its powerful air sterilization device.
In a scholarly assessment of the 2004 presidential election, University at Buffalo political science professor and election forecaster James E. Campbell, Ph.D., makes several observations about what trends may influence the 2008 contest.
The new season of MTV2's video game and music program, "Video Mods" is, in part, the result of an innovative partnership between IBC Digital, the Buffalo company that produces the "mods" and the University at Buffalo's supercomputing center.
Using nanoparticles, scientists have for the first time delivered genes into the brains of living mice with an efficiency comparable to viral vectors with no observable toxic effect. They also have activated brain stem cells in vivo, potentially to replace those destroyed by disease.
Thomas A. Szyperski, Ph.D., UB professor of chemistry, and co-authors present a paper on how they determined the structures of eight proteins in just 10-20 days per protein, instead of the six to 12 months typically needed.
The world's greatest rock 'n'roll group has a supercomputer named after it. "U2" has been selected by the Center for Computational Research as the name of its newest and most powerful supercomputer, for research ranging from genomics, to groundwater modeling to the monitoring of human-rights abuses.
If history is any guide, the timing may be right for President Bush to nominate a hard-line conservative for the Supreme Court, according to University at Buffalo political scientist Mark Hurwitz, Ph.D., an expert on the judicial process.
Constitutional battles over civil liberties could intensify at the state level -- continuing a more than two-decade-long trend -- if the Supreme Court becomes more conservative under President Bush, according to University at Buffalo Law Professor James A. Gardner.
If Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist soon retires from the bench because of thyroid cancer -- as many speculate he will -- he will leave behind a legacy as "a strong chief justice, generally well-liked by his brethren," according to a Supreme Court expert at the University at Buffalo.
Renowned experts in the fields of childhood and adolescent mental-health problems will gather in July to discuss new and effective treatments for a wide-range of mental illnesses affecting children and teens.
Size doesn't matter, at least not the size of the eyespots on a male's wings when female butterflies consider potential mates. Instead, females are attracted to the "sparkle" created by the ultraviolet reflectivity of eyespot pupils, University at Buffalo biologists have found.
The Supreme Court's decision in MGM v. Grokster offers both good news and bad news for copyright law and followers of new technologies, like P2P, according to Shubha Ghosh, professor of law at the University at Buffalo and an expert on intellectual property and cyberspace law.
The University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the schools of engineering at the SUNY university centers at Stony Brook and Binghamton together are creating the world's first fully online bachelor's-degree program in electrical engineering.
Only 11 percent of students surveyed at two universities in New York State have formally declared their intentions to become organ or tissue donors, a new study has found. However, 80 percent of students in the study indicated they would be receptive to learning more about the topic.
By harnessing the power of computational techniques initially developed on academic supercomputers, urban planners, engineers and even litigators are creating vivid animations of urban life to solve problems ranging from urban sprawl to traffic jams to site selection.
Whatever the outcome, the Michael Jackson trial represents a low point in TV's continued trivialization of the U.S. legal system, according to Elayne Rapping, Ph.D., University at Buffalo professor of American studies and author of "Law and Justice as Seen on TV."
In a case that could affect millions of consumers who use file-sharing software to copy music and video content, the Supreme Court likely will uphold a 1984 ruling stating that companies that offer copying technologies can not be held liable for copyright infringements of users.
In the continuing cultural battle over the separation of church and state, the Supreme Court will be challenged to draw a line between what is religious and what is historical or cultural when it soon rules on two cases involving the Ten Commandments.
A study by education researchers at the University at Buffalo shows that students who spend several years in smaller-sized classes during the elementary grades -- especially those from lower-income families -- have a greater likelihood of graduating from high school.
The battle over judicial nominees and filibustering rules currently taking place in the U.S. Senate is symptomatic of the bitter partisanship that for years has gripped the U.S. House of Representatives and has now overtaken the Senate, according to an expert on the judicial process.
To thwart the plans of potential terrorists, the Federal Aviation Administration is supporting the development of a new search engine by University at Buffalo researchers that is designed to detect "hidden" information that can be gleaned from public Web sites.
With the current school year drawing to a close, countless families soon will be confronted with what many of them will consider devastating news: Their child's teacher will recommend that he repeat the same grade next year.
A new study of treatments for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has found that combining behavior modification therapy with medication is the most effective way to improve the behavior of many ADHD children.
Many health-care industry bottlenecks can be eliminated, resulting in major improvements in efficiency, cost savings and patient care when hospitals borrow principles from production lines on the factory floor.
Mechanical engineer Hui Meng built her career on the study of turbulent flows generated by aerodynamic systems. Today she's turned her focus to biomedical engineering and is applying her skills to understanding flow in the tiny blood vessels that lead to the human brain.
Just in time for the world celebration of physics and its most famous practitioner, Albert Einstein, the University at Buffalo is enjoying a banner year in the discipline. This semester, the number of physics majors at UB has jumped an impressive 82.5 per cent over 2002.
Working with survivors of terrible and sometimes nightmarish car accidents, University at Buffalo psychologist J. Gayle Beck has developed a new group-therapy treatment program for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of their accidents.
Researchers have undertaken a long-term research project to study how information from blogs produced in specific American urban areas reflects the political agendas, opinions, attitudes and cultural idiosyncrasies of the general population of those places.
A virtual-reality drama, aimed at transforming the movie-going experience, is driving the development of "self-aware" computational agents that are able to improvise responses to the spontaneous actions of human users.
Surgeons at the University at Buffalo carried out the first minimally invasive spinal surgery in the U.S., using a new technique to stabilize the lumbar spine called axial lumbar interbody fusion, or AxiaLIF (tm).
A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation or chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo.
An efficient new strategy for synthesizing a natural marine product with promising anti-tuberculosis activity but which cannot be efficiently synthesized using conventional chemistry, is being reported by University at Buffalo organic chemists.
The world-renowned statue Hermes with the Infant Dionysos has been equipped with innovative seismic protective devices that will help the 7-foot-high marble statue of the Greek god withstand powerful earthquakes.
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