Christopher Densmore, University at Buffalo associate archivist, has a principle research interest: the early history of New York's Quakers, who, though nominal in number, have had enormous influence on American life and polity.
Robert Creeley, Samuel Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to spend three months lecturing at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
University at Buffalo biologists have developed a new mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy that may more accurately than current models simulate the progression of this fatal disease.
Eighteen Indonesian school teachers -- all but two of whom left families and children behind in Indonesia to take part in the project -- arrived at the University at Buffalo earlier this month to begin two years of postgraduate study to become master teachers.
A study of a possible link between breast cancer and occupation, conducted by University at Buffalo epidemiologists, shows that premenopausal women who work in professional or executive positions appear to be at lower risk of developing the disease than women who do not.
Molecular epidemiologists from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo and the University at Buffalo have shown for the first time that colon cancers that develop along separate pathways respond differently to known dietary risk factors.
High blood pressure continues to affect more blacks than whites, despite suggestions that the differential has equalized over time, a comparison of blood pressure readings from studies conducted 26 years apart has shown.
Women over 35 who give birth for the first time are 50 percent more likely than younger mothers to deliver a pre-term or low-birth-weight baby, epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have found.
Engineers at the University at Buffalo have developed a new material out of skinny, nickel filaments that provides better shielding against electromagnetic interference than any materials currently on the market.