Institute News

  • NSF Grant Funds UB Study on Economic Effects of Urban-Planning Strategies
    1/10/01
    Alex Anas, Ph.D., Frank H. and Josephine L Goodyear Professor in the Department of Economics in the Â鶹´«Ã½o College of Arts and Sciences, who has developed a new strategic-planning model that will allow urban planners to examine alternative "what-if" scenarios in advance and predict their consequences, and his interdisciplinary project team have received a $450,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue their three-year study of the effect of different infrastructure investment-and-financing strategies on the development of metropolitan areas.
  • National Recognition, More Inventions And Lower Rents For Start-Ups Mark First Year Of UB Business Alliance
    1/19/00
    In its first year of operation, the UB Business Alliance has received a "Project of the Year" award from a national organization, boosted its royalty income and the numbers of inventions disclosed and made significant changes in its incubator facility, making it easier for start-ups to rent space. The UB Business Alliance will mark these and other accomplishments at an anniversary celebration to be held Jan. 26 in the Center for the Arts.
  • Suresh Editor of New Book On Cellular Manufacturing
    4/22/98
    Nallan C. Suresh, Ph.D., associate professor of manufacturing and operations management in the School of Management, was lead editor of a recently released book that details the latest theory and practice of streamlining manufacturing operations.
  • Ph.D. Candidate Lei Lin wins ITS-NY Student Paper Competition
    5/27/22
    Lin’s  paper  titled “Android Smartphone Application for Collecting, Sharing and Predicting the Niagara Frontier Border Crossings Waiting Time" has been selected as the winner of the ITS-NY 2014 Best Student ITS Paper Competition.
  • Ph.D. Candidate Shuai Tang Awarded Travel Grants to Present at Industry Conferences
    5/27/22
    Shuai Tang, a third year PhD student from the Transportation Systems Programs in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the Â鶹´«Ã½o received travel grants from both the NSF-sponsored 2014 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (PASI-SUFS) held in Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia from Aug 3 to Aug 17, 2014 and Volvo’s Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Workshop and Conference in New York from Oct 26 to Oct 30, 2014 where he presented “The Geography of Warehousing --Spatial Analysis and Findings of the New York Metropolitan Region”
  • NYSDOT, in collaboration with CUBRC and UB’s Dr. Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, were selected in Round 4 of the SHRP2 Implementation Assistance Program
    5/27/22
    The Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently announced that NYSDOT with the collaboration of CUBRC and the Â鶹´«Ã½o were selected for implementation and technical assistance in Round 4 of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Implementation Assistance Program in the Safety Focus Area: “Concept to Countermeasure – Research to Deployment Using the SHRP2 Safety Databases.”  Dr. Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, Assistant Professor of UB’s Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and Associate Director for ISTL, will serve as UB's principal investigator on this project.