A robot with a firm, yet gentle grasp
9/17/19

UB engineers have developed a dynamic gripper that mimics the adjustable grip of a human hand, an advancement that could improve industrial safety.

Nursing professor receives national award
9/17/19

Kafuli Agbemenu is one of 16 scholars across the nation to receive the 18 month, $73,000 award.

Should undergrads work?
9/16/19

There are very real trade-offs for students who work, and those challenges are greater when they work more hours off campus, says GSE’s Nathan Daun-Barnett.

Tagging monarch butterflies
9/16/19

Searching for a flash of orange and a flutter of wings, UB students recently tagged monarch butterflies in a Buffalo park to track the insects' spectacular migration.

UB artist's new work is nod to girl power
9/16/19

Burchfield Penney sculpture designed by Shasti O’Leary-Soudant will commemorate Buffalo Junior League 100th anniversary.

Libraries to host civil rights film series
9/13/19

Films will explore segregation, discrimination, immigration and interracial marriage and how these key issues have transformed the world.

Journey continues at UB for ‘Lost Boy’
9/13/19

Kang Guot has traveled a long and arduous path to UB’s Graduate School of Education.

SPHHP offers new online MPH
9/13/19

Online program lets students take advantage of the same foundational public health education as the classroom-based individualized MPH.

Taibbi headlines Humanities Festival
9/12/19

Democracy is the theme for the festival, which runs Sept. 19-21 and features National Magazine Award-winning columnist and author Matt Taibbi.

Expanding addictions care in WNY
9/12/19

UB will partner with nine local primary and behavioral health care sites to launch the Opioid Workforce Expansion Program.

Scientists predict new forms of superhard carbon
9/12/19

A study identifies dozens of new carbon structures that are expected to be superhard, including some that may be about as hard as diamonds.

Autschbach to receive the 2019 Schoellkopf Medal
9/12/19

The award is the oldest given by any local section of the American Chemical Society.

Photographs, slideshows and videos capturing life at UB

Consulting the experts

For ideas on the play area in what will be a transformed LaSalle Park in Buffalo, project partners sought out the true experts: the kids. The UB Regional Institute and students from the School of Architecture and Planning guided children through a fun, hands-on activity aimed at soliciting ideas for the Play Garden in Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park at the most recent Imagine LaSalle public workshop. Photos: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki

Published September 13, 2019

Behind the scenes look at the creation of the UB Public Service Announcement.

Behind the scenes

UB's outstanding faculty are the focus of a new public service announcement that will air during football games and across social media this fall.

Kindergartners from Westminster Community Charter School check out the new school supplies donated by members of the UB community.

Supporting community schools

Pupils from Westminster Community Charter School check out some of the new school supplies they received this week, thanks to the annual school supply drive organized by UB’s Office of Community Relations. Employees from 30 offices across UB donated more than 1,900 packaged school supplies. In addition, 80 backpacks filled as kits full of back-to-school supplies were donated. Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki

Published September 12, 2019

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