• Antibiotic factories
    6/1/15

    UB engineers have harnessed the bacteria E. coli to synthesize dozens of new forms of the popular antibiotic erythromycin, including three that kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

  • June in Buffalo
    6/1/15

    Artistic Director David Felder talks about the history and legacy of UB’s pioneering festival for new music.

  • Empowering women
    6/1/15

    UB graduate and Fulbright recipient Samah Asfour aims to break down cultural stereotypes for women in developing nations and the Middle East.

  • Honored with Chancellor's Awards
    6/4/15

    UB again was well-represented when recipients of the 2015 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence were announced recently, with 20 faculty, staff and librarians being honored for outstanding achievement.

  • At the movies
    6/4/15

    Grab a blanket or lawn chair, and heat up the popcorn popper. Many of the summer's biggest movies can be seen — for free — at UB's outdoor Summer Film Series.

  • New sensing technology
    6/4/15

    An international research team led by UB engineers has developed nanotechnology that could improve our ability to detect diseases, fraudulent art, chemical weapons and more.

  • Sounds at Silo City
    6/4/15

    The mostly abandoned grain elevators are an integral part of a presentation of new experimental music and sound art taking place next weekend.

  • Addressing speech difficulties
    6/4/15

    UB's Articulation Boot Camp is now screening applicants for a summer program designed to address one of the most common speech difficulties affecting children and adults.

  • Faculty startup joins START-UP NY
    6/4/15

    Six companies, including one founded by a UB researcher that is developing a potential treatment for breast and other types of cancer, have been approved for START-UP NY through their affiliation with the university.

  • Investigating endangered species protection
    6/4/15

    Using a case study approach to investigate protection of endangered species, a UB Law School faculty member has found significant gaps in how public agencies keep track of endangered species agreements.

  • Upgrading the connection
    6/4/15

    A recent upgrade to UB’s connection to the Internet2 nationwide network will increase tenfold the university’s data capacity, better positioning researchers for competitive funding opportunities.

  • Milestone moment
    6/4/15

    The respect Caitlyn Jenner is receiving makes this a milestone moment in American cultural history, according to Elayne Rapping, professor emerita of American studies.

  • Heading to Nepal
    6/4/15

    UB engineer Andreas Stavridis is traveling to Nepal with a team of colleagues to try to determine why some buildings collapsed and some survived April's devastating earthquake.

  • Learning through play
    6/4/15

    The Early Childhood Research Center's new playground reflects its philosophy of exploration, play and learning.

  • Promoting pedagogical innovation
    6/4/15

    The Center for Educational Innovation has awarded seed funding to five proposals designed to further teaching excellence at the university.

  • Threat to liberties
    6/11/15

    UB Law professor Mark Bartholomew says expansion of the National Security Agency’s cyberspying poses a “serious threat” to Americans’ civil liberties.

  • Early intervention
    6/8/15

    A study by researchers at UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute supports emotional and informational support for newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients who experience significant emotional distress.

  • Neubert to direct Entrepreneurship Academy
    6/8/15

    Serial entrepreneur and educator Robert Neubert will join the UB faculty in the fall as a clinical assistant professor in the School of Management and director of the Entrepreneurship Academy.

  • 'Tip of the iceberg'
    6/11/15

    The recent breach of data involving 4 million federal employees was no surprise to UB faculty member Arun Vishwanath, who says there's no way now to stop such hacks from happening.

  • Building bridges
    6/8/15

    A team of UB engineering students took fourth place — UB’s best finish yet — in the 2015 National Student Steel Bridge Competition.

  • Improving life for aging population
    6/11/15

    Five UB faculty members have received grants from UB's Institute for Person-Centered Care to develop approaches, technologies and service models aimed at helping people age well.

  • Escape ‘unheard of’
    6/11/15

    UB faculty member Charles Ewing says the escape of two inmates from an upstate New York maximum-security prison last week took intelligence, planning, luck and most likely some assistance.

  • UB Council meets
    6/11/15

    The UB Council took care of a variety of business at its meeting on June 8, including approving revisions to UB's sexual assault awareness and prevention policy, and honoring the MAC champion men's basketball and tennis teams.

  • Tesluk named interim dean
    6/11/15

    Paul E. Tesluk, the Donald S. Carmichael Professor of Organizational Behavior, has been appointed interim dean of the School of Management, effective July 1.

  • The water's fine!
    6/11/15

    After years of underuse, Lake LaSalle is quickly becoming the focus of outdoor recreational activities for the UB community.

  • Celebrating summer on the green
    6/11/15

    The Hayes Hall lawn again will be the site of UB on the Green, the university's free series featuring live music, dancing and hands-on activities for the entire family.

  • Skip a beat? Auditory nerve cells will know
    6/11/15

    A UB study has found that the strength of an auditory nerve cell’s response to sound does change in nonrandom ways in response to complex, ongoing activity.

  • Space Bulls shine
    6/11/15

    UB's team in the NASA-sponsored Mars rover competition placed third — its best finish yet — at the contest held earlier this month in Houston.

  • National champ
    6/11/15

    Senior Jonathan Jones took first place in the shot put at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the first national champion in UB's Division I history.

  • Does class size (still) matter?
    6/11/15

    The answer is unequivocally ‘yes,’ UB faculty member Jeremy Finn writes in a chapter in a soon-to-be-published book.

  • Addressing mental health needs
    6/15/15

    People with significant mental health needs are receiving quality psychiatric care in the community, instead of the hospital, thanks to two innovative programs developed by UB psychiatrists.

  • Easing transitions
    6/15/15

    UB Nursing faculty member Sharon Hewner is working on a system to automate hospital discharge communication, potentially reducing the number of patients readmitted to hospitals.

  • Texas officer should not have been sent to pool party
    6/12/15

    UB faculty member John Violanti says that after responding to two calls involving a suicide and a suicide attempt, the McKinney, Texas, police officer had been through enough trauma for one day and shouldn’t have been sent to the pool party,

  • Dental dean to conclude service
    6/12/15

    School of Dental Medicine Dean Michael Glick will conclude his service as dean on Aug. 14, Charles F. Zukoski, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, and Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences, have announced.

  • Anchoring the future
    6/18/15

    UB’s Office of Educational Collaboration and Engagement is among the organizations spearheading an effort to harness Buffalo’s “eds and meds” to create pathways to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities.

  • Making sense of the auditory world
    6/18/15

    UB researchers are taking important steps toward understanding how humans and other animals perceive the auditory world.

  • Exceptional faculty
    6/18/15

    Eleven of UB’s best and brightest teachers and researchers have been named recipients of the university’s 2015 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation awards.

  • Community art
    6/18/15

    UB's Anderson Gallery will feature a new outdoor work of art in September — created from fabric and constructed by local volunteers — that will cover sections of the building.

  • Tailored treatment
    6/18/15

    UB addiction experts have received a $3 million federal grant to explore whether treatments tailored to a person’s behavior before seeking help will result in better treatment outcomes.  

  • Career honor
    6/18/15

    UB faculty member Venu Govindaraju, a globally recognized expert in machine learning and pattern recognition, has received the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award from the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).

  • New insights into cocaine addiction
    6/18/15

    UB researchers have discovered a previously unknown neural pathway that can regulate changes made in the brain due to cocaine use, providing new insight into the molecular basis of cocaine addiction.

  • Hammill to lead Graduate School
    6/18/15

    Graham Hammill, professor and chair of the Department of English, has been appointed vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate School.

  • GSE launches first online PhD
    6/18/15

    The Graduate School of Education's new online programs — including its first PhD program and a certificate program in online education — join a growing list of online offerings by the school in what has been called today’s fastest-growing education-delivery model.   

  • Creative explosion
    6/18/15

    This year's June in Buffalo festival offered emerging composers the opportunity to hear their works performed and get invaluable feedback from some of the field's most prominent artists.

  • Highlighting success of START-UP NY
    6/18/15

    Business owners spoke during a roundtable discussion about how START-UP NY is helping them build their respective companies.

  • Survivors at risk for PTSD
    6/18/15

    UB faculty member Steven Dubovsky says the way survivors of the Charleston church shooting deal with the aftermath is critical to whether they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • Great books
    6/22/15

    English professor Ken Dauber is soliciting suggestions from faculty for a list of the 10 books every student should read before graduation.

  • Benefits for front-runner
    6/22/15

    UB political scientist James Campbell says that having close to 20 Republican candidates in the presidential primary race actually could help the front-runner.

  • Sudit to lead sponsored programs
    6/22/15

    Moises Sudit, an entrepreneur, research professor and center director, has been appointed as UB’s associate vice president for sponsored programs.

  • Tripathi to speak at Newman series
    6/23/15

    President Satish Tripathi will discuss “The Value of Higher Education: A Personal and Public Good” in the next installment of the Bridge Lecture Series on June 24.

  • Rite of passage
    6/25/15

    Two hundred UB medical residents received their long white coats in a ceremony symbolizing they have graduated from medical school and earned the title of physician.

  • Redemption road
    6/25/15

    Sean Bearden's nontraditional path to an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship began with his dropping out of high school and spending time in prison before landing at UB and becoming a dedicated physicist and one of the university's most accomplished students of 2014-15.

  • What would Atticus do?
    6/25/15

    With the upcoming publication of a sequel to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," members of the UB Law School community reflect on the book's hero, Atticus Finch, the great fictional lawyer who they say represents the best of the profession and the best of humanity.

  • Green alternative
    6/25/15

    BikeShare at UB is becoming an increasingly popular way to travel around campus.

  • Shine the light
    6/25/15

    When you’re having trouble sleeping, light is the last thing you assume you need. But UB researchers say it may be the answer for lung cancer patients with insomnia.

  • GSE student receives scholarships
    6/25/15

    Graduate School of Education doctoral student Maryam Sadat Sharifian has received three scholarships to encourage her “to make a difference in the world."

  • Digging into the Sandbox
    6/25/15

    The innovative Buffalo Student Sandbox provides funding to eight student-led technology startups.

  • Confederate flag debate
    6/25/15

    The emblem is a divisive symbol that should not be flown from public buildings, says UB Civil War historian Carole Emberton.

  • Philosophical debate
    6/29/15

    The nation’s two most prominent philosophers of medicine will present their divergent views of health, disease and grieving at the third annual PANTC conference at UB.