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Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt
5/13/26
Ice Age wind system may have pushed Great Lakes snowstorms west instead of east.
Thomas Grant awarded Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship
5/12/26
Thomas D. Grant, PhD, assistant professor of structural biology, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship.
AI spots hidden security flaws in hundreds of 5G smartphone models
5/11/26
UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm; leads to work with Apple and Google.
Two UB alumni win 2026 Pulitzers
5/7/26
Sara DiNatale shares the explanatory reporting award with two colleagues at the San Francisco Chronicle and Juliana Spahr of Mills College is this year’s winner for poetry.

Luigi Mangione, copycat crimes, and the rise of political violence
5/11/26
Rolling Stone features the expertise of David Schmid regarding political violence and the rise of copycat crimes due to media sensationalism.
Hantavirus outbreak resurrects COVID-19 era conspiracy theories
5/8/26
Agence France-Presse sought the expertise of Yotam Ophir regarding a surge in conspiracy theories regarding the hantavirus outbreak.
Study shows how a potato-based diet changed the genetics of Andean people
5/7/26
Reuters features research co-authored by Omer Gokcumen on the evolutionary advantages of certain genes, spurred by the consumption of potatoes 800,000 years ago.
Getting answers about hantavirus
5/6/26
WIVB invited John Crane to do an in-studio interview about the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that has already claimed the lives of several passengers.