BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new pathway for improving vaccines against tuberculosis has been discovered by microbiologists at the University at Buffalo in collaboration with researchers at other universities, according to a paper in the journal Mucosal Immunology, published by the Nature group.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Carole Emberton, assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of the Richards Prize for the best article published in the 2012 edition of the Journal of the Civil War Era, the official journal of the Society of Civil War Historians.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The hazards of breathing outdoor air in some Chinese cities have been well-documented. Now a University at Buffalo study confirms that breathing indoor air also carries significant cancer risks, especially for Chinese women.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A research study by behavioral neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo offers new information about how ovarian hormones, in particular the powerful estrogen estradiol, help to regulate eating and drinking behaviors.
While most students are settling into the new semester, Alanna Olear, a University at Buffalo environmental engineering major, will be in campus bathrooms measuring the amount of paper towels that were used that day.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – John R. Alm, retired CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, has established a University at Buffalo scholarship for graduating seniors at Maple Grove High School in Bemus Point.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Carole Emberton, assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of the Richards Prize for the best article published in the 2012 edition of the Journal of the Civil War Era, the official journal of the Society of Civil War Historians.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – After the high of Super Bowl weekend, the University at Buffalo Police Department will greet patrons, refill drinks and bus tables at Tully’s Good Times on Feb. 7 to raise money for another sporting program, the Special Olympics of New York.
Jonathan Reichert, UB professor emeritus of physics, who has donated to UB a rare collection of materials from poet Robert Frost, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition on the 50th anniversary of the poet’s death.
A major feature story on the front page of the Buffalo News explores the materials-science research being conducted at UB and the opportunity it presents to boost private industry and economic development in the Buffalo Niagara region.
An Associated Press article about a virulent new stomach virus that is affecting people around the world quotes John Crane, associate professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist who had to deal with a norovirus outbreak in a hospital a couple of years ago.
A major feature article in The New York Times reports on the work of Dennis Maher, UB clinical assistant professor of architecture, who has been making sculptures out of pieces of demolished houses.
Expertise: Environmental pollution; emerging
contaminants including nanomaterials, brominated flame
retardants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals; wastewater
treatment of pharmaceuticals; environmental mass
spectrometry
Director of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse
Prevention
Expertise: School violence, bullying prevention and
intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and
treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professional Relations
for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Expertise: Laws and regulations affecting pharmacy
practice, medication errors, systems for improving practice sites,
adult asthma, pharmacy business plan modeling
Expertise: Campaigns and elections, American political
parties, election forecasting, campaign finance, presidential
politics, presidential-congressional relations
Expertise: Popular culture, cultural studies,
celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and
American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the
city
Expertise: Astronomy, cosmic inflation, accelerating
universe, dark matter/dark energy, solar storms, cosmic microwave
background physics, public outreach in science
