Are you fluent in Burmese and/or Arakanese and interested in working on a transformational project with a committed group of interdisciplinary researchers? Join us as we document the impact of the West Side Bazaar on the local food system.

An opportunity to get your hands dirty exploring a system of block-making common within the African continent.

Students will contribute to studies attempting to better understand vocal production and auditory perception in different types of mice.

Come work with BSW and gain invaluable experience as an administer or teaching assistant at a vibrant, growing, arts nonprofit based in Downtown Buffalo.

Seeking students to contribute to research exploring motor-disease protein complexes and their role in intracellular transport, as they relate to disease initiation and the aging process, and the development of neuroprotective treatments.

In a world where brain plasticity gives rise to kaleidoscopic connections, anything is possible.

This internship provides field experience for potential future speech and language pathology clinicians and school professionals

Community Cooks is an ongoing, collaborative project that brings together a collective of local and national food justice organizations advocating for communities of color in Western New York.

Understanding the neurochemical organization of the human brainstem has implications for understanding major neurological disorders including epilepsy, tinnitus, hyperacusis and ataxia.

Students interested in social science, helping professions (e.g., psychology, counseling, social work), and/or public health can participate in federally-funded studies examining close relationships and substance use.

Detecting Fraud from Accounting Restatements and Company Filings 

Participate in UB Bees environmental initiative to help grow UB's mission of sustainability.

Sustainable synthesis is enabled with copper catalysis. 

Help discover how digital storytelling can advance social justice initiatives

The objective of this research project is to develop new digital tools to collect and process citizen science observations of water resources. Building on the existing Crowdhydrology project, the research assistant will help design and implement new computer codes to collect observations of water levels and flooding. These data will be used to develop improved models to forecast flooding and quantify stream flow in remote locations across the United State

Pictures have been used in the field of speech-language pathology to evaluate children's language skills in real-life situations. This project aims to examine whether children's production of grammatical sentences will be affected by pictures that are used in the evaluation process. The outcome of the project will help clinicians determine whether they are able to choose pictures on their own when evaluating children's sentence skills.

This project intends to document and display Chinese WNYers' encounters with the Covid-19 pandemic through conducting oral history interviews.

This project invites students with a working familiarity of either the Arabic or Devanagari scripts to help collect records of Hindi-Urdu (H-U) inscriptions through collating references and requesting articles and other notices describing them.

The Editing Digital Culture project seeks to link students with projects that are working to transform historical cultural documents into high-quality resources for the public on the web.

Does children's usage of tense markers (e.g., -ed) vary with different speaking situations?

This project explores factors that influence how people decide to "play the stock market" and will consider both environmental and cognitive factors.

The goal is to design a graph neural network based recommendation system for scroll paintings (folk art) that can run on decentralized compute environments (such as peer-to-peer systems). Requires ability to understand and analyze machine learning problems theoretically, programming skills and performing extensive empirical analysis on a proprietary multi-modal dataset for art conservation. 

This project explores natural light stable isotopes to investigate biological, chemical, environmental, and physical processes.

Do you possess the design skills to help build a web site that tells the story of African American Activism and the Underground Railroad in the Niagara River Borderland? Do you want to help make an impact on a local, regional and national scale about these important historical events? 

Our long-term research goal is to decipher the gene regulatory network that directs the embryonic development of various types of neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC, aka ARH).

Help me investigate the global history of the American Culture Wars.

Students are invited to apply to take part in an archaeological excavation in Gournia, a Minoan town, during Spring or Summer.

Get paid to help Korea-and US-based scholars study of the grammars of Hindi and Urdu! 

Do you want to help students design the next fad diet? 

Wildland firefighting is an inherently dangerous job that puts these workers at risk of potentially deadly heat illnesses. Track heat illnesses in wildland firefighters to help us better understand circumstances surrounding their illness. 

Create robotic oysters to help fight climate change! 

Seeking students to engage with IACE- International Artists & Cultural Exchange, hosted by the UB Department of Theatre & Dance, bringing artists from around the world to UB, promoting interdisciplinary activities and extending dialogue into the community.

To what extent is happiness a choice? What are the individual-level and community-level consequences of the pursuit of happiness? 

Looking for a hands-on experimentalist to reveal the physical underpinnings of biocatalysis. Curious molecular biologists to engineering physicists welcome! 

Take a practical role in invasive species management and education.

Students will research climate change in the Arctic and East Asia employing organic "biomarkers" as proxies for hydroclimate and temperature in lacustrine, marine and loess archives.

The Latinx Learning Lab is an incubator for research into Latinx history and community, connecting students to UB researchers and community organizations. 

Are you interested in saving our planet? Reducing our global greenhouse gas emissions? Reducing plastic pollution in our environment? 

Are you interested in learning the quantum mechanical behaviors of electrons and spins in two-dimensional materials? Join our team to create these materials and explore their exotic properties with potential for quantum applications. 

Can exposure to media content shape audiences’ attitudes, judgments, and behaviors?

"Modulating Mind, Body, and Space" introduces basic concepts and techniques for conceiving, building, and programming objects, spaces, and media that sense and respond to their physical surroundings.

Seeking students to actively collect data for an exercise study to improve worker health and safety in a hot environment. Help determine the impact of multiple days of work in the heat on physiological strain, hydration, and fatigue! 

Seeking students to join research utilizing behavioral, genetic, and vivo neurophysiological techniques to study neural connections with reward-related brain areas associated with drug-taking behavior.

Learn about different types of stimulation targeting connections in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves to improve movement in patient population.

You are invited to submit a research proposal for the Northeast Modern Language Association's (NeMLA) 5th Undergraduate Research Forum at its 54th Convention in Niagara Falls, NY.

How does fat affect the human heart? 

Are you looking to get involved in a chemistry lab? Join our team of motivated students and design and prepare new catalysts that use sustainable, earth abundant transition metals.

Research chemically modified IL2s for cancer immunotherapy.

Join a team of linguists and other researchers to explore the linguistic structures and cultural importance of Palenquero Creole. 

Make the world better by confronting complex social issues in the fields of philosophy, politics and economics. 

How much do you imitate other people's voices when you speak with them? The language you speak may play a big role.

Observe the sniffing behavior of different primate species at a rescue center in Vietnam.

The study aims to investigate how well English-speaking children between ages 3 and 5 are able to produce grammatical sentences in a picture description task.

Students will work with experienced members of the student body to develop a new user-friendly database using coding, programming and web design.

Have you ever wondered about the role of psychology in legal issues? Design a research project to collect and analyze data and investigate questions at the intersection of psychology and law.

What can writing in public spaces tell us about changes in literacy, tourism, ethnic identity, and how history is remembered?

Curious about the publishing industry and interested in the idea of pursuing a career in publishing? Apply Now!  

Rain gardens are being built all over the city of Buffalo to capture storm water, but we have limited data on their performance. 

Learn how to process satellite imagery with state-of-the-art computing tools to help others.

Learn what nature looks like at 10^-20 meters and study the Higgs boson, dark matter, and other huge questions about our universe.

Students will work with Professor Walter Hakala to research ancient technologies of water retrieval, storage, and distribution across present-day India along with current efforts to revitalize neglected structures.

Discover how singing humpback whales use their impressive songs to see each other from many miles away using faint echoes.

Positions filled but applications accepted on a rolling basis for research in the Self and Motivation Lab.

Building upon a semester-long survey research project, you will complete a policy brief recommending ways UB could better support its students, particularly those who have had prior juvenile justice system contact.

Seeking students to help with projects that examine how people's opinions change, including how people attempt to change their own minds as well as how conversations with others can change our minds.

Investigate the psychology of stress, coping, and resilience.

Small language, big data. 

New NSF-funded Project on Teenagers' Peer Experiences

Trace the origins of literature, millions of phrases at a time, using digital methods to discover and analyze how authors creatively use the work of others.

Apply your knowledge of languages to document translations and adaptations of The Arabian Nights in libraries and popular culture! 

In what ways did the European colonization of the New World affect the cuisines, health, and material conditions of Asian societies? 

Learn about and volunteer at The Tool Library, an environmental and social justice not-for-profit in the University Heights neighborhood. 

Seeking students to work with Prof Surajit Sen on fundamental and applied problems in nonlinear and statistical physics, study of conflicts and battles, social systems and other topics to be crafted based on overlap of interest.

Take a trip to the Actors’ Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center, and earn academic credit while enjoying immersion in early modern theater practices. 

Where do political leaders travel and what can we learn from these trips?

Students will engage in researching magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) , helping to develop iron MRI contrast agents, making measurements, fitting data, and preparing samples for MRI studies. 

In an age of Google Translate, Viki, fan fiction, and YouTube, explore how translators adapted their craft to make sense of new media.

Seeking students to examine the ways in which religious texts and scholars circulated across Asia, assembling materials to be employed in a future graduate seminar on the history of translation in Asian religious traditions. 

UB Scavenger Cam will show us which species are living and eating in Letchworth Teaching Forest!

Have you ever wondered why some people sing off key?

Students will explore the use of a technology through a new biotech company, experiencing the translation process of converting a lab technology to a practical product used in daily life.

The project will involve testing materials that can be used to enhance bone regeneration at defects in the jaw bones of humans, using CT scanning techniques and developing a system of measurement of bone volume.

Seeking highly enthusiastic and motivated students to identify synthetic biomaterials for the in vitro expansion of functional lung progenitors.

Our long-term research goal is to decipher the gene regulatory network that directs the embryonic palate development.

Students will work with various biomaterial fabrication techniques such as electrospinning, 3D printing and chemical synthesis to innovate biomedical applications that can sense and release antimicrobial agents.

Students will join the Arany lab in using light based interventions to promote wound healing and tissue regeneration, using Lasers and LEDs and other non-invasive, non-pharmacological treatments to improve human health.

Do you love thinking about the millions of viruses in your mouth – and wonder what they are doing?

Research focused on bacteria feasting below the gum line to uproot teeth.

This project will develop a new electrical method for sensing the defects incurred during 3D metal printing.

Help design scalable reading literacy assessments

Use artificial intelligence + creativity and arts + computer science to address sustainability and environmental issues.

AI in Agriculture 

Intelligent Robot Assistance to support 24X7 Healthcare Practices.

Work on an experiment that will better help control the pitch of an airplane via a joystick.

This project integrates laboratory research with water quality modeling to understand the interaction of urban-natural water cycles.

Students with interests in engineering and chemistry are welcome to participate in this project to enable safe and efficient wastewater reuse through disinfection and membrane technology.

Communicate with satellites in geosynchronous orbit using radio signals to gather information about their orientation.

You will be able to "see" the wind from wireless signals. 

Help dancers visualize their lineage through full stack application development.

CIE 324 introduces students to analysis and design of complex structural systems: the art of using the principles of statics and mechanics to calculate the design axial and shear forces and moments and then determine the size and arrangement of structural elements under prescribed loads. 

Seeking undergraduate researcher to work on an NSF-funded project on computational imaging and artificial intelligence supporting the design of advanced material. Experience in Python programming is required. 

CSE321 introduces students to methods to address some of the fundamental challenges in the design, implementation, and validation of these real-time and embedded systems.  

Students will look at challenging topics related to decision, risk, and big data analytics.

Seeking undergraduate researcher to work on a project that defends against a web attack named formjacking, where attackers inject malicious javaScript into a web page that steals sensitive payment information.

Students will design a drone that carries an ejection mechanism to launch a net towards a threatening drone.

Explore automated UAV landing on ship decks.

Dive deep into the topic of vibration with this hands on project. 

Help develop a fair and interactive knowledge tracing system to monitor students' learning using artificial intelligence. 

Help develop puzzle video games to be used in engineering classrooms.

Seeking students to work on emerging biometrics, exploring the use of brainwave, heart beat, gait, gesture and other live body features.

By authoring an original case study and accompanying instructional guide, students can use their engineering/computing ethics knowledge to contribute to a rich repository of teaching tools. 

Highly motivated students will assist in novel research into the statistics of aerosols in a unique flow-chamber through experiments using state-of-the-art high-speed lasers, high-speed tomography, and development of laboratory apparatus.

Fabricate, test, and analyze real components that are subjected to external loading to see how well they compare to finite element models.

Bring your excellent programming skills and hard-wroking attitude to help identify misinformation across multimodal content.

Can we use web technology to crowdsource perspectives on engineering problem solving?

This project aims to develop and test a new fish-inspired robot that minimizes undesirable inertial recoil found in traditional fish swimming, while being capable of achieving high speeds and efficiency.

Experimental demonstration of dynamic instability in beam with follower forces.

Seeking an Engineering student to design a new computational framework to warp and blend driving simulator screen graphics.

Teams of tiny robots and drones to the rescue: learn how to run physical experiments with dozens of robots working together to search, survey or deliver goods, autonomously.

Refine water treatment techniques using the scientific method to identify dependable, low-cost solutions to help individual households gain access to clean water.

This study focuses on the short-term efforts to systematically advance hurricane resilience of urban built environment, where the problem of optimizing stakeholders’ action plans for resilience enhancement is mathematically formulated as a Markov decision process and approached by the deep reinforcement learning (AI) algorithms.

Use deep reinforcement learning to improve radio resource scheduling in advanced cellular networks (LTE/5G).

Beyond algorithmic and technology advancements, this project will produce key digitized data of figure skating performance that will be valuable for the research community to explore

Design and implement algorithms/software to find the occurrence of micro-expressions from video files.

The mHealth research team at UB is seeking smartphone hackers looking for research experiences and academic publications.

Create your own insects, or microrobots, using a combination of different forms of engineering. 

If you have excellent programming skills and some knowledge of machine learning consider this exciting project ! 

Seeking students from a wide spectrum of disciplines to work on subsystems of satellite being built to be flown by NASA through its CubeSat Initiative as part of the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program.

Students will research the properties of natural gas as a promising resource for clean energy, exploring implications for methane emissions and other limitations.

If you want to make a difference and improve people's reading experience in learning, come join the NorthStart project. 

Develop a web, iOS and Android application that can be used by many businesses and customers.

Build ultrafilter modules and apply chemistry and microbiology knowledge to explore emerging research questions related to virology in wastewater.

Do you want to develop a robot to play the Rubik’s Race game using computer vision and control knowledge? 

Research will seek methods to analytically predict racking displacements so that bridge designers can take measures to accommodate these displacements.

Contribute to our ongoing clinical and pre-clinical research and develop emerging biomedical imaging technologies that help improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological diseases.

Speed control of Automobile using an Electronic Throttle Body.

We need validated, science-based mitigation strategies to reduce the vulnerability of structures to wildfires.

In this research we plan to design interactive AI models for different usecase applications like identifying bias in web-based contents, evaluating speakers’ mental health status in a multi-speaker video, predicting users’ interest for effective contextual advertising etc.

Seeking students for projects prototyping a set of self-powered embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. These projects will sharpen your hardware and software skills.

Share your journey as a student in STEM to spark curiosity, creativity and passion in K-12 students as they explore professional and academic pathways. You'll partner with Belouga.org, a digital platform connecting people in 98 countries, to inspire the next generation of college students.

Students will contribute to the development of a simulator for capture of threatening drones with nets.

Students will contribute to the development of a simulator for capture of satellites with nets.

Seeking students interested in sensors and smartphone programming to help equip next-generation smartphones for environmental sensing related to health and fitness.

Are you interested in sports and in particular, Football (US) and Basketball? Are you familiar with voice recognition, and speech-to-text (STT)? If so, we have an interesting project for you.

This project pertains to the use of structures to produce electricity. In contrast to batteries, charging does not need energy input. This results in electric vehicles not having to stop to get charged, in addition to not having to rely on batteries, which are heavy and bulky.

Seeking students interested in VR and gaming to work with a local industrial company to develop a VR-based rehab system for older adults.

Contribute to core technologies that fuel spatial reasoning in future robotics and augmented reality applications. 

Build the future of data science.

Voice signal processing for health applications. 

Seeking hardware/software hack interested in helping to develop a novel wearable eating sensor.

Help with the development of tools to measure and analyze wireless signal propagation in a real scenario.

This project investigates the use of wood as a scale, so that people in a wood-frame building can be detected in real time (e.g., for intruder detection and energy conservation) and creating "smart" buildings.

Can non-verbal communication impact group work success in STEM?

Make a difference for children in Buffalo Public School classrooms! Participate in the LEARN Tutoring Project and work towards equity and access in literacy learning for elementary students from diverse backgrounds.

Share your college experiences and strategies for success as a mentor to students at the Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School.

Help us extend the p5.js platform to support collaborative coding in the arts, design, and media study.

Explore the genetic and psychosocial risk factors impacting patient outcomes after bariatric surgery with a team of interdisciplinary researchers.

Students will contribute to the creation and characterization of animal models of neural development using animal husbandry and genotyping, biochemical techniques, morphological and cell biological analysis.

In this project, we will use a variety of pharmacological and sophisticated molecular techniques, including optogenetics, to determine which brain regions and neurotransmitters are responsible for the motivation to consume alcohol.

Students will participate in a USDA-funded project to identify and characterize gene regulatory sequences throughout the genomes of 50 or more insects of agricultural and biomedical importance.

Students will analyze large datasets from modern magnetic resonance imaging techniques, contributing to sub-projects including data collection and analysis, applying graph theory models, and development of software tools.

Assist in analyzing the expression of the gene, Htr 7 in rat brains chronically exposed to Methylphenidate. Students interested in neuroscience and medicine will have the opportunity to assist in this analysis.

Students will contribute to research using CRISPR technology to create complete gene knockout lines, helping to clarify the exact function of the gene Apol11b.

Seeking Research Assistants with backgrounds in health or life sciences for a team project designed to help pregnant women quit smoking.

Convert dusty lecture material into engaging online content for medical education.

This project focuses on the development of a microfluidic system to enable precise biochemical sensing measurements. 

Design and characterize novel biosensors for studying rapid changes of neurochemicals in the brain and organs.

Seeking students to characterize gene expression patterns in mosquito embryos, regulatory sequences in transgenic fly and mosquito models, and explore the function of regulatory elements through mutagenesis.

Work on an NIH funded project studying bacteria in WNY waterways

Assist in determining how exercise helps individuals recover from addiction and how we can personalize exercise to allow for a high rate of success.

Seeking students to join a new and growing lab that seeks to understand the molecular causes of cancer in order to develop better therapies and improve patient outcomes.

Seeking students for both short and long-term commitments, studying the effects of gut bacteria on kidney function through both animal and human studies.

We are using a combination of cell culture based assays to determine how dietary components might affect the metastatic potential of prostate cancer cells.

Students will discover new signal transduction pathways in kidney disease and cancer.

Students will research multiple issues relating to iron metabolism in animals and humans, as they relate to genetic and acquired diseases.

This project will take hypotheses developed by bioinformatics-based investigations to wet lab validation.

We will examine the effect of various drugs on apoptosis signaling in microglia and neuroinflammation.

Project will involve electrophysiological measurements of single-channel currents from HEK293 cell transfected with recombinant cDNA.

The Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC) is seeking students with strong backgrounds in neuroscience, physics and mathematics to work on quantitative imaging research related to neurological diseases and disorders through innovative techniques and application of bioinformatics resources.

Can complement be modulated to stop disease in its tracks? 

Help investigate new anti-leukemia drugs that target DNA repair and autophagy at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

Students will utilize in vitro and in vivo transcription assays to analyze the function and regulation of nuclear actin and nuclear myosins.

Students will engage in research exploring the metabolism, disposition and clinical utilization of clinically useful anticancer drugs.

Be the first to characterize a newly discovered ion channel in the cornea of the eye.

Contribute to our ongoing clinical and pre-clinical research and develop emerging biomedical imaging technologies that help improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological diseases.

Dysregulated communication between the nervous system and immune system occurs during depressive behavior, chronic pain, and inflammation.

Seeking Research Assistants to work on a project that helps pregnant women to quit smoking, using multicomponent behavioral interventions including education, monitoring and feedback, and contingent financial incentives.

The Child Health and Behavior Lab (HABLAB) at the University of Buffalo is looking for undergraduate students to assist with research studies during Spring, Summer, and Fall 2023.

Seeking undergraduate assistants to work on an exciting research project studying effects of substrate stiffness on vascular cell function and molecular players involved in the vessel stiffening process. (Learn new techniques; 3D Bioprinting and Atomic Force Microscopy)

Research focuses on studying diabetic related vascular complications including diabetic retinopathy, diabetic vascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetic nephropathy toward developing cures for diseases that affect the retina peripheral vessel and kidney.

This project will investigate how residues located in the cytoplasmic domain of NMDA receptors influence this receptor's function.

Assist in determining how diet and gastric bypass surgery changes the number of receptors in the brain. Students interested in neuroanatomy will perform image analysis for quantifying receptor expression in the rodent brain.

Projects work toward the development of novel drug and cell therapy for the treatment of demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and myelin diseases of children such as leukodystrophies.

This project will work to understand the structure and function of enzymes that are used by bacteria to make novel antibiotics and other bioactive molecules.

Watch a cell defend itself from acid!

An excellent opportunity for pre-health/pre-med students to gain clinically significant research experience, as well as a great stepping stone to potentially earn your name on a publication. Members of this team will be expected to assist in this animal model of methylphenidate, fluoxetine behavioral paradigms, and several other training opportunities could potentially arise to learn surgical skill by committed students.

Looking for students to assist in image analysis for quantifying receptors in the brain.

Determine dysfunctions of brain and nervous systems implicated in stress-related diseases and substance abuse using a variety of electrochemical, genetic and pharmacological techniques.

Study genome stability using a combination of genetic, biochemical and biophysical approaches to understand errors in DNA replication.

We are seeking motivated student volunteers to participate in studies that span from cells to community in order to identify the best ways to age successfully. 

Limited-time mentor-led opportunity to grow your skills in social scientific measurement skills toward publication is now available!

Want to find out the REAL effects of governmental messages on people's behavior? The Galileo Theory Singapore Project, Spring 2023, will find answers! 

Be more than a mentor: Lead by example to share practical information, offer support, and engage these new management students as they start their academic journey at UB.

South Africa + awesome youth + education + business skills; the only thing missing is you!

Create websites and marketing materials for non-profit organizations around the world to expand their outreach and program success.

Seeking Research Assistants to support a new longitudinal research project examining the factors related to eating behavior in pregnancy.

Assist in an evaluation of school wellness policies to support wellness policy development and implementation.

Students interested in social science, helping professions (e.g., psychology, counseling, social work), and/or public health can participate in federally-funded studies examining close relationships and substance use.

Students will support ongoing research related to eating behaviors and risk factors for obesity among parents and children, assisting with scheduling and running participant appointments, entering, analyzing and possibly presenting data.

Seeking students to contribute to the Environmental Health Study for Western New York investigating environmental exposure in relation to health and identify ways to prevent disease in the future. 

Students will explore public health issues through engagement with a student-run free medical clinic in Buffalo along with rural populations via a remote area medical mission in the Southern states. 

Students will explore improving literacy achievement with elementary school students using preferred reading material in a private elementary school in Buffalo, NY.

Want to gain research experience in human health study and biomedical engineering-related equipment and software? Join us to explore gait! 

This project seeks to increase the fruit and vegetable consumption among individuals with inadequate access to fresh produce and limited financial resources.

Work on a pilot clinical trial to recruit pregnant women from an OB/GYN clinic and to understand the effects of an indoor air pollution intervention on mother's and baby's health.

This project investigates various neurotherapeutics for blast-induced traumatic brain injury.

Seeking students to research public health challenges in various populations, with a goal of developing classroom resources, tools and strategies.

Help reduce food insecurity within the Seneca-Babcock community by volunteering at a food pantry.

Assist in ongoing studies exploring how sex hormones and diet change responses to feeding-relevant neurohormonal signals in females and males. 

Seeking students to work on a longitudinal research project looking at the factors related to teen eating behavior and body composition. Students must commit to 2 consecutive semesters (or more) of service in the lab.

Development and evaluation of a mobile produce market (The Veggie Van) to bring fresh, local, affordable food to lower income and under-served communities.

Learn about feminist activism in Pakistan and the movement for gender equality.

Spread the gift of education in Haiti and advance social justice.

Looking for Peer Researchers to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on young women's sexual lives.