Science and Technology

News about the latest UB research in science, engineering and technology, and its impact on society. (see all topics)

Air pollution harms mental health more in New York’s historically redlined neighborhoods
8/22/24
The link between pollutants and ER visits is more pronounced in the communities once denied mortgages due to race.
Norgen Biotek to open research lab at CBLS
8/15/24
The Canadian biotech company also plans a manufacturing facility in Niagara Falls.
Dental professors’ forensic work included in new volume of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’
8/2/24
The forensics team was tasked with determining if a severed head belonged to a torso in a broken-into mausoleum in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
New online graduate pharmacometrics program accommodates working professionals
7/31/24
Asynchronous program includes study of how drugs move through the body and how the body responds to specific drugs.
UB, partners awarded $1.5 million grant to diversify STEM
7/23/24
UB to host scholars from underrepresented backgrounds; provide expertise in hydrogen fuel production.
$2.5 million NIH grant to help UB researchers remove guesswork from drug discovery
7/16/24
The lab of David Heppner will try to answer fundamental questions about the time-consuming and costly drug discovery process.
Study reveals how liquid protein droplets age into rubber ball-like elastic solids
7/12/24
Scientists find that biomolecular condensates’ aging is determined by their amino acid sequence.
Moog gift supports research into safer autonomous vehicles
7/9/24
Work supported by the gift to bring together multiple robotics experts at UB and Moog.
UB’s New York State Center for Plastics Recycling Research and Innovation hosts first New York state microplastics summit
7/3/24
Microplastics enter the environment from the breakdown of macroplastics that often come from cosmetics, synthetic fibers on clothing, tire ware, industrial processes, packaging and more.
Tiny and tunable: Porous crystals excel at recognizing molecules
6/28/24
Potential applications of the new materials include industrial gas separation, sensing and catalysis.

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