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Thomas Grant awarded Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship
5/12/26
Thomas D. Grant, PhD, assistant professor of structural biology, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship.
AI spots hidden security flaws in hundreds of 5G smartphone models
5/11/26
UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm; leads to work with Apple and Google.
Two UB alumni win 2026 Pulitzers
5/7/26
Sara DiNatale shares the explanatory reporting award with two colleagues at the San Francisco Chronicle and Juliana Spahr of Mills College is this year’s winner for poetry.
UB to offer the world’s first doctorate in applied ontology
5/6/26
The new PhD program, and a master’s launched last year, are the only graduate level applied ontology degrees in the world, filling a critical need in a burgeoning field.

Study shows how a potato-based diet changed the genetics of Andean people
5/7/26
Reuters features research co-authored by Omer Gokcumen on the evolutionary advantages of certain genes, spurred by the consumption of potatoes 800,000 years ago.
Getting answers about hantavirus
5/6/26
WIVB invited John Crane to do an in-studio interview about the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that has already claimed the lives of several passengers.
Consumers helped pay for tariffs. Will they get refunds?
5/5/26
Marketplace featured the expertise of law professor Christine Bartholomew in a report about businesses seeking $166 billion in tariff refunds.
Security cameras are failing spectacularly at common sense
5/5/26
The Wall Street Journal highlights the expertise of David Doermann regarding the failures of doorbell security cameras to distinguish true threats.