Graduate News

Here is how our graduate faculty, students and researchers are making headlines at the University at Buffalo.

Binge drinking and cannabis use among 12th graders
12/10/25
Smoking, vaping and dabbing all were associated with any past two-week binge drinking occurrence among high school seniors who used two or more cannabis products.
Study: It’s not just chronic pain. It’s how many places it hurts that may affect the brain
11/10/25
Findings suggest that pain experienced in more than one site is strongly associated with a faster decline later in life in areas such as memory, reasoning and attention tasks.
UB MSW/PhD student receives fellowship
11/5/25
Tiffany J. Nhan is the recipient of the prestigious Minority Fellowship from the Council on Social Work Education.
UB to offer a fully online graduate degree in ontology
10/28/25
The applied ontology degree will prepare students from around the world for work in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary branch of information science.
GSE PhD student named Spencer Dissertation Fellow
10/17/25
The prestigious award will allow Iman Lathan to pursue her research on how the NCAA serves as a secondary diasporic conduit for Black female athletes.
UB biophysicist to dive deeper into protein-RNA droplets
10/16/25
A $2.1M NIH grant will allow Priya R. Banerjee to continue work on biomolecular condensates and their role in cancer and other diseases.
A head start on STEM careers
10/3/25
The Girls in STEM Together We Chem summer program aims to help high school students get comfortable in the lab and set them up for success.
UB PhD student receives national cartography, GIS scholarship
9/24/25
Ryan Zhenqi Zhou applies geospatial data science and AI to address natural disasters, including the 2022 Buffalo blizzard.
Solar telescope offers chance to stargaze
9/22/25
Obtained by UB as part of a project to observe last year's total solar eclipse, the telescope will be used for education and outreach.
MD/PhD student first author on major paper on kidney cancer
8/20/25
Nick Salgia is first author on the paper in Cancer Cell, one of the most respected journals in the field.
UB grad awarded NSF fellowship
7/10/25
Petar Pajic will use the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology to study the evolution of mucus and its role in pregnancy at Yale University.
New, non-opioid molecule acts like a long-lasting anesthetic, relieving chronic pain for three weeks
6/11/25
A new molecule acts like a local, long-lasting anesthetic, providing robust pain relief for up to three weeks.
UB pairs with Florida Atlantic for wireless communications research and education
5/20/25
The partnership, which includes a workforce development program, will tap UB’s expertise in wireless networking, AI, autonomy and more.
Studies point to redlining as a ‘perfect storm’ for breast cancer
5/12/25
New UB-led research indicates that while the residential segregation policy was outlawed decades ago, it still impacts women’s health today.
Study finds one protein that mitigates Huntington’s disease, and one that exacerbates it
5/5/25
These proteins, which regulate the huntingtin protein’s movement in neurons, could be future drug targets.