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The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a robust look at how this century’s losses could starkly outpace prior changes.

In honor of the late Robert Genco of the School of Dental Medicine, multinational oral health care company Sunstar Group has donated $1 million to establish a new endowed fund in Genco’s name.

For the 18th straight year, the University at Buffalo is rated among the nation’s top 30 institutions hosting international students.

Through her dissertation research, Gabriella Nassif will seek to partner with current and former migrant domestic workers in Lebanon to document and understand their experiences both during and prior to COVID-19.

Twenty-two new graduates have completed the Leadership Empowerment Academy Program (LEAP), a global collaboration between the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and the UB School of Management’s Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (CLOE).

Self-esteem is a valuable resource for undergraduate international students trying to socialize with their domestic counterparts at American universities.

A diverse team of University at Buffalo School of Management undergraduates—representing three majors and four countries—took first place in the 16th annual PwC Challenge, which tests students’ critical-thinking, teamwork and presentation skills.

How do free trade agreements impact diet and health? A study on a trade deal between the U.S. and smaller, developing countries in Central America and the Caribbean highlights the need for policymakers to consider this question.

The University at Buffalo took another step toward its goal of becoming a top producing university for Fulbright Scholars by submitting its largest number ever of applications for student Fulbright awards.

For the 17th straight year, the University at Buffalo is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions hosting international students.

Three UB students joined 30 other university teams from around the world, finishing in third place at the World’s Challenge Challenge Global Final at Western University, in London, Ontario, Canada.

An analysis of the complex legal and political backdrop to land tenure in Ghana was recently published by UB urban planner Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah in the journal Environment and Planning: Politics and Space.

New UB research provides pathophysiologic evidence of the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular disease in China. The findings also suggests that China may need to revise its standard for one type of pollutant.

During a July 11 visit to campus, Ireland’s Ambassador to the US toured UB’s world-renowned Joyce Collection.

Jonathan Shimon of the Department of Theatre and Dance has been selected as the technical director by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) for the U.S. entry in the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, the global showcase for the best in performance design, scenography and theater architecture.

UB undergraduate Paolo Bourdeau plans to use the research he conducted during a 10-week Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) research internship last summer to make his home country of Haiti more resilient to hurricanes

The CannonDesign project team chosen for the global design firm’s partnership with UB on the university’s signature One World Café brings expertise in transformative renovation and award-winning, culinary-focused design, as well as experience working on major architectural projects across Western New York.

A handful of UB law students are on the front lines of the national debate over immigration policy and the U.S. government’s treatment of immigrants as they volunteer their legal expertise to immigrants seeking to cross into the United States from Mexico.

With an emphasis on recent U.S.-Mexico border and immigration issues, this year’s riverrun Global Film Series will celebrate Mexican cinema and culture. The free series will run from Oct. 10-12 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State.

A Department of Art exchange program involving MFA students from UB and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China will culminate in an exhibition and symposium at UB early this semester focusing on the complexities of cross-cultural interpretations and negotiations.

For 33 students from 11 different countries, UB has been their home as students in the summer semester of UB’s Intensive English Program (IEP).

For nearly 40 years, the School of Dental Medicine and the Sunstar Group, which produces GUM brand products, have partnered on a fellowship training program that sends Sunstar scientists more than 6,000 miles from Japan to Buffalo to conduct research under UB faculty member Robert Genco, lauded by the Journal of Dental Research as the “father of oral science.”

Thirty-eight undergraduate STEM students from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan are back home this week after taking courses ranging from engineering to sociology during the first six-week session of UBThisSummer.

There’s one undeniable fact about UB’s rise as a global leader in international education: No one has been more integral to that effort than Stephen C. Dunnett.

This year, the University at Buffalo has produced three Fulbright winners, three alternates and six finalists, in addition to five other study abroad scholarship recipients.

When and how did the first people come to the Americas? One dominant, new theory: The first Americans took a coastal route along Alaska’s Pacific border to enter the continent.

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management.

To enhance the understanding of China’s record in Africa in comparison with those of Europeans and Americans, experts from leading universities and research institutes in China, the U.S. and Europe are gathering on April 26 at UB for a daylong symposium, “China in Africa: Global Perspectives.”