Research News

UB historian Carole Emberton 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.

New research from the Graduate School of Education shows a connection between preschool music activities and the development of reading and writing skills in children.

With a group of high school scientists, William Duax, a professor of structural biology, is probing one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: Which life form—or life forms—preceded all others on Earth.

A UB study confirms that breathing indoor air carries significant cancer risks, especially for Chinese women.

Small information technology businesses that follow formal processes are more productive and achieve higher quality and customer satisfaction, according to a School of Management study.

New UB research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life.

“Tesserae,” a new classics search engine developed at UB, advances comparison and analysis of ancient texts.

A new UB study has found that verbal aggression may have biological causes that can be identified by the ratio of length of a person’s ring finger—second digit—to the length of the index finger—fourth digit.

A UB research team has received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a vaccine against Moraxella catarrhalis, an increasingly prevalent bacterium that causes at least 10 percent of children's inner ear infections.

UB Graduate School of Education faculty member Jeremy D. Finn recently was a speaker at a national conference on school discipline, suspensions, security and misbehavior, with special emphasis on alternatives to excluding students from schools.