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Wheat straw, a farming byproduct, could soon insulate your home
6/18/25
University at Buffalo-led team 3D prints the organic material to create green alternative to common fiberglass insulation.
UB School of Management moves up in Positive Impact Rating
6/18/25
The University at Buffalo School of Management’s social impact and community engagement continue to expand and have again been internationally recognized.
Study reveals ‘switch-like’ behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease
6/18/25
Most genes express at varying levels, but switch-like genes are only highly expressed or lowly expressed.
UB professor emerita receives highest honor from Emily Dickinson society
6/17/25
Cristanne Miller, PhD, will receive award later this month in Taiwan.

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Faculty Experts

8/16/21
Yu-Ping Chang

Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor of Nursing

Expertise: mental health; substance abuse and addiction; family caregiving and dementia

Phone: 716-829-2015
Email: yc73@buffalo.edu
4/12/23
Annette Semanchin Jones
Associate Professor and Director, PhD in Social Welfare program

Expertise: child welfare, foster care, child protection services
Phone: 716-645-1862
Email: amsemanc@buffalo.edu

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UB in the News

A long-standing puzzle of ‘missing’ ordinary matter in the universe may be solved, astronomers say
6/17/25
CNN quotes William H. Kinney in an article about how astronomers are using mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, to help them track down some of the missing, or “dark,” matter in the universe.
The world's hardest bluffing game
6/14/25
The Atlantic quotes Mark Frank a complex Iraqi bluffing game, which is traditionally played on Ramadan nights after the fast is broken.
Friday the 13th is here. Here's why people think it's unlucky.
6/12/25
USA Today quoted Phillips Stevens about the origins of Friday the 13th and why people consider the day to be unlucky.
5 things you’re getting wrong about sitting at your desk, according to an ergonomics expert
6/10/25
Fast Company quoted Lora Cavuoto for a story on how proper ergonomics at work can lower the risk of long-term injury.

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