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UB Career Experience benefits students and companies

Students intern at life sciences and advanced manufacturing companies or start-up businesses, getting paid and learning more about the industry. Companies get a free, months-long look at potential employees. 
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Research funds and tools that increase your options 

Move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of an SBIR grant with UB's Small Business Innovation Award. Use SWIFT to speed up your industry agreements.
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Leveraging UB resources made a strong 2016

Companies licensed 12 UB technologies and created more than 250 jobs. They filled university incubators, supported faculty research and signed partnerships for strong research-supported economic growth.
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Companies licensing UB technologies include:
Garwood Medical Devices
Zoetic Pharmaceuticals

Patents for UB faculty
  Janet Morrow
  Jonathan Bird
  Uttam Singisetti
  Josep Jornet

Check with UB's Technology Transfer office to learn more about commercializing research and technology.
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January 2017 


NSF grant puts UB on the road—driverless

A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant brings self-driving cars closer to a safe reality on UB's campus. University researchers and industry partners are eager to test drive the innovative and interactive connections.

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Immigrant diversity boosts paychecks

Despite fears of immigration driving down wages, a new UB-partnered study finds the reverse seems true—wages rose for all workers in several metro areas.

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Finding a new middle of North America

UB geographer Peter Rogerson has a new, mathematically sound method of finding the center. He says it's Center, North Dakota.


UB spinoff succeeds as digital teacher tool

It's now nearly 10 years, 60 employees and annual sales of $10 million later, and the company CEO says PLS 3rd Learning would not exist without UB Technology Transfer.
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NSF mapping STEM success in schools

A $1.2 million NSF grant extends the mapping / GIS portion of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Program (ISEP) with Buffalo Public Schools. The agency applauded the teacher and student learning with measurable outcomes. 


Insecticides and your diabetes risk

UB researchers added computer modeling to wet-lab work, finding connections between synthetic chemicals in insecticides and your risk for metabolic diseases.


Faculty grants drive industry innovation

Five faculty / industry collaborations earned more than $170,000 in project grants from UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics.
 


Faster, cheaper, better 3-D printing

What began as a UB student's idea five years ago has evolved into a START-UP NY company that could transform metal printing in manufacturing. "Exciting, interdisciplinary engineering," say faculty advising Vader Systems.
UB Vice President for Research and Economic Development
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