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Archives Index Page February 2007

Agency Briefs

FREDONIA — With the support of $4.7 million construction allocation from the State of New York and a $604,000 NYSTAR grant, SUNY Fredonia is planning a rural/small city high technology business incubator. The Director shall be responsible for managing the start-up and subsequent operations of the High Technology Incubator, to be located in contiguous Dunkirk, NY. See Press Release TOP

High Technology

BUFFALO — A computerized patient simulator valued at $30,000 and designed to improve the training of medical students has been donated to the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences by Margaret W. Paroski, M.D., and her husband, Peter Martin, Sr. See Press Release TOP

Research Patents

AMHERST — Tarunraj Singh was awarded a patent for jerk limited time delay filter. The patent was assigned to The Research Foundation of State University of New York. Detail TOP

AMHERST — Xiaojun Cao, Chunming Qiao, Vishal Anand and Yizhi Xiong were awarded a patent for an efficient optical network design using multi-granular optical cross-connects with wavelength band switching. The patent was assigned to The Research Foundation of SUNY. Detail TOP

Scientists In The News

BUFFALO — Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., professor of chemistry, and Thomas Melendy, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology, both at the University at Buffalo, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. See Press Release TOP