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Balthasar named first David and Jane Chu Endowed Chair
10/19/20
Joseph P. Balthasar has been named the first David and Jane Chu Endowed Chair in Drug Discovery and Development in the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

UB stories heard around the world in 2019
12/26/19
BUFFALO, N.Y. — We predicted new forms of superhard carbon, including some that could be harder than diamonds. We made groundbreaking discoveries about memory loss. We told the forgotten stories of women who helped build the Bauhaus, a design school and movement known around the world.

UB Alumni Association elects new president, officers
7/9/19
Gary Jastrzab, a Buffalo native, earned bachelor’s degrees in environmental design and sociology while attending UB.

UB in the News

Outbreaks in NFL, other sports is no surprise
10/12/20
Given the number of people involved and close contact, it's no surprise COVID-19 has flared up in professional sports, UB physician John Sellick tells The Buffalo News.
The politics of architecture in Nazi Germany
10/6/20
An Architectural Digest podcast interviewed Despina Stratigakos, about the politics of architecture in Nazi Germany and her book, “Hitler’s Northern Utopia,” which chronicles German occupiers’ efforts to transform the built environment of occupied Norway.
Why adding salt makes fruit—and candy—sweeter
10/6/20
Science quoted Kathryn Medler, in a story about a new study that explored how sweet-sensitive taste cells work, and the role of a protein called the sodium-glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1) in detecting sweetness.
Greenland could lose more ice this century than it has in 12,000 years
9/30/20
National Geographic and several major news outlets around the world covered new research led by Jason Briner, whose team concludes that the Greenland Ice Sheet is on track to lose ice at a faster pace this century than in any century over the last 12,000 years.
Amy Coney Barrett: what will she mean for women's rights?
9/27/20
The Guardian interviewed Lucinda Finley, on what Supreme Court nominee Amy Comey Barrett might mean to reproductive rights, health care and more.