Graduate News

Here is how our graduate faculty, students and researchers are making headlines at the University at Buffalo.

  • ‘Come together,’ right now: UB study shows why live music benefits well-being
    2/26/26

    The effects are not derived entirely from what the musicians give to the audience, but also what the audience unwittingly shares amongst themselves.

  • Binge drinking and cannabis use among 12th graders
    12/10/25

    Smoking, vaping and dabbing all were associated with any past two-week binge drinking occurrence among high school seniors who used two or more cannabis products.

  • Study: It’s not just chronic pain. It’s how many places it hurts that may affect the brain
    11/10/25

    Findings suggest that pain experienced in more than one site is strongly associated with a faster decline later in life in areas such as memory, reasoning and attention tasks.

  • UB MSW/PhD student receives fellowship
    11/5/25

    Tiffany J. Nhan is the recipient of the prestigious Minority Fellowship from the Council on Social Work Education.

  • UB to offer a fully online graduate degree in ontology
    10/28/25

    The applied ontology degree will prepare students from around the world for work in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary branch of information science.

  • GSE PhD student named Spencer Dissertation Fellow
    10/17/25

    The prestigious award will allow Iman Lathan to pursue her research on how the NCAA serves as a secondary diasporic conduit for Black female athletes.

  • UB biophysicist to dive deeper into protein-RNA droplets
    10/16/25

    A $2.1M NIH grant will allow Priya R. Banerjee to continue work on biomolecular condensates and their role in cancer and other diseases.

  • A head start on STEM careers
    10/3/25

    The Girls in STEM Together We Chem summer program aims to help high school students get comfortable in the lab and set them up for success.

  • UB PhD student receives national cartography, GIS scholarship
    9/24/25

    Ryan Zhenqi Zhou applies geospatial data science and AI to address natural disasters, including the 2022 Buffalo blizzard.

  • Solar telescope offers chance to stargaze
    9/22/25

    Obtained by UB as part of a project to observe last year's total solar eclipse, the telescope will be used for education and outreach.

  • MD/PhD student first author on major paper on kidney cancer
    8/20/25

    Nick Salgia is first author on the paper in Cancer Cell, one of the most respected journals in the field.

  • UB grad awarded NSF fellowship
    7/10/25

    Petar Pajic will use the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology to study the evolution of mucus and its role in pregnancy at Yale University.

  • New, non-opioid molecule acts like a long-lasting anesthetic, relieving chronic pain for three weeks
    6/11/25

    A new molecule acts like a local, long-lasting anesthetic, providing robust pain relief for up to three weeks.

  • UB pairs with Florida Atlantic for wireless communications research and education
    5/20/25

    The partnership, which includes a workforce development program, will tap UB’s expertise in wireless networking, AI, autonomy and more.

  • Studies point to redlining as a ‘perfect storm’ for breast cancer
    5/12/25

    New UB-led research indicates that while the residential segregation policy was outlawed decades ago, it still impacts women’s health today.