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Center partners in Erie County government, local school systems, and local industry join UB faculty
and students to diminish diesel exhaust emissions from School Bus idling. Project support through
IUCB was made possible by NYSTAR EQS grant for purchase of critical equipment.

Breaking the idling habit

Biomedical Industry Park "flyover" : January 2005 update--IUCB is renewing its efforts to convert its adjacent
UB South Campus research facility to a radiation sterilization facility, as the centerpiece for the build-out of a
Biomedical Industry Park on campus.

A short computer-generated "flyover" of the proposed project is included in this video segment.

Biomedical Industry Park "flyover" Video

Wilson Greatbatch, just turned 85 years old, is Western New York's famed inventor of the implantable pacemaker.
Here, in a 10-minute video segment from a longer March, 2004 interview, is his "take" on continuing professional education
needs for bioengineers, and his forecast that Buffalo's next technology leadership task will be in the field of nuclear energy.

The radiation sterilization facility proposed for UB's South Campus might be the home for a renewal of academic programming
in Nuclear Engineering, the original purpose of the research facility now under consideration for conversion.

Wilson Greatbatch Video

With the daily news proclaiming "failures of FDA" to properly regulate the safety and effectiveness of drugs sold in the USA,
it is timely to review the distressing situation regarding "failures" of medical implants and the possible need for some transnational
registry of implant recipients. Here, in a 28-minute video synopsis, is the result of a 3-year {1994,5,6} Town Meeting of the World,
involving medical implant stakeholders from more than 20 countries and 200 institutions--concluding that a pilot project beginning
with TMJ (jaw joint) implants might be the best place to start.

Town Meeting of the World Video