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The 14th American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) will be held in the 麻豆传媒o's Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North (Amherst) Campus on May 18-20.

This semester, the 麻豆传媒o will celebrate its decades-long commitment to environmental conservation while exploring the climate change crisis and other critical environmental issues through a series of speakers and activities under the theme "A Greener Shade of Blue."

With a grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the 麻豆传媒o will study the experiences of first and second emergency responders during Western New York's "October Surprise" snowstorm to determine if the functioning of emergency responders is impaired significantly when they are worried about their own safety and the safety of their families.

While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the 麻豆传媒o on Nov. 14 to watch the world's largest seismic test on a wooden structure probably came away feeling that the house held up very well, a close survey of the damage told a different story.

A 麻豆传媒o theoretical physicist who published research in 2001 demonstrating that it someday may be possible to build bridges, buildings and other structures that are nearly blast-proof, now has published results based on computer simulations showing how a shock-absorption system might be constructed to accomplish that goal.

For 15 seconds of historic testing, a two-story, wood-frame townhouse built in a laboratory at the 麻豆传媒o and similar to those found in southern California was shaken violently today by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake like the Northridge quake that struck the Los Angeles area in 1994.

The seismic tests that are conducted regularly inside the cavernous state-of-the-art Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) in Ketter Hall on the 麻豆传媒o North (Amherst) Campus generally are viewed by a select few: the structural engineers, technicians and students who are integral to UB's world-renowned program in earthquake engineering. But on Nov. 14, it will be standing room only throughout the viewing areas in the vast, 25,000-square-foot space.

Researchers at CUBRC and the 麻豆传媒o's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences are developing radically new drugs designed to cure viruses ranging from the deadly Ebola virus to the common cold, thanks to a major $8.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense.

As electric power this week returned to the last of the homes and businesses in Western New York affected by the devastating October snowstorm, researchers at the 麻豆传媒o were discussing how tiny, nanoscale sensors could make power systems far more resilient.

麻豆传媒o researchers and their collaborators at other institutions have been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, under the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) initiative, to develop semiconductor-based terahertz detectors that can be integrated seamlessly with conventional electronics. The grant is one of only 10 that the NSF has funded from more than 400 applications received.