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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Futurity | A Professor is Riding This High-Tech ‘Weather Bike’ Around Cleveland
    2/26/16
  • Grind TV | Architect turns bicycle into full, rolling weather station
    2/26/16
    An article on Grind TV reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners. “Although airport weather stations and satellite data help to estimate temperatures in a city, finer-scale data is needed to support planning at the neighborhood level,” he said. An article also appeared on Road.cc, a British website for the cycling community.
  • Architect designs weather station on two wheels
    2/26/16
    It’s a bizarre scene: A man on a cargo bike tricked out with lots of strange-looking equipment labors up and down the streets of Cleveland and surrounding suburbs.
  • Job training, Canada and East Side support part of ECIDA strategy
    2/25/16
    An article about initiatives the ECIDA is expected to help finance at its March meeting reports it includes $242,000 for a study to be conducted by UB’s Regional Institute to identify the strengths and marketable skills of the local labor force, while also examining how shifts in the region’s job market are expected to affect the demand for labor and single out skills that are expected to be in greater demand in the future. 
  • Gizmag | Bicycle sports its own full weather station
    2/25/16
    An article on Gizmag, a new and emerging technology news outlet that reaches more than 5 million readers a month, reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners. “Although airport weather stations and satellite data help to estimate temperatures in a city, finer-scale data is needed to support planning at the neighborhood level,” he said. 
  • The $1 Homes That Could Cost $40,000-Plus
    2/25/16
    An article on Yahoo Finance Canada about cities like Buffalo and Kansas City that are selling vacant homes in need of renovation and repair for $1 quotes Robert Silverman, professor of urban planning in the School of Architecture and Planning, who said purchasers need to have the properties inspected thoroughly to make sure they’re even habitable. “There are always unknowns when you get involved with properties that might be older and might have some kind of environmental issues, like lead or asbestos,” he said. 
  • Small-business support center on Buffalo’s East Side to get funding from ECIDA
    2/24/16
    An article in the Buffalo News reports that the Erie County Industrial Development Agency is expected to approve $75,000 in funding for a Regional Institute study, which will "identify the strengths and marketable skills of the local labor force, while also examining how shifts in the region’s job market are expected to affect the demand for labor and single out skills that are expected to be in greater future demand."
  • Davidson and Rafailidis Stop-Motion Project Selected for Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016
    2/24/16

    A stop-motion animation about low-resource architectural possibilities for a distressed urban site, produced by UB architect duo Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis, has been selected for the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale in Portugal next fall.

  • New boom of downtown residents helps Buffalo’s revitalization
    2/22/16
    An article about residents who are among the new wave of city dwellers living in lofts and apartments that are being constructed in formerly run-down industrial buildings downtown notes downtown’s comeback can be traced to the Queen City Hub, the city’s 2003 action plan calling for “diverse pedestrian-oriented residential communities throughout downtown,” and quotes Bradshaw Hovey, co-director of UB’s Urban Design Project. The plan built on the ideas of others going back to the 1970s, he said.
  • Spanish Church Design by Miguel Guitart is Expression of Matter, Light and Scale
    2/12/16
    Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture Miguel Guitart’s research on matter, light, and perception is spatially explored in his firm’s ongoing real-world architecture project: the new Santa Maria Church and Parish Center in Tarragona, Spain.
  • As Buffalo grows, student architects build experience
    2/8/16
    A story on WBFO-FM about the future of the current Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo building reports Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, has been highly visible as a member of the advisory commission on the site’s future, and students from the school also have been involved in the proposals. “We treat our city and region as a laboratory where we learn and contribute every chance we get,” Shibley said.
  • Article by Daniel Hess Examines the Evolution of Urban Planning in Post-Soviet Latvia
    2/8/16

    Associate Professor Daniel B. Hess, PhD, traces the democratization of urban planning in post-Soviet Latvia in a “best-in-issue” article just published in Town Planning Review.