Research Excellence
To achieve its institutional potential as one of the premier public research universities and make a profound impact on local and global communities, UB has built up infrastructure to support faculty in their investigations while leveraging disciplinary strengths to solve society's most pressing problems.
Identifying cross-disciplinary research and scholarly areas where existing strengths aligned with great societal need, UB developed a paradigm rooted in innovation in basic and applied research and fostered a culture of interdisciplinarity to tackle complex and urgent challenges facing health care, the climate and social justice, to name a few areas.
Research Excellence: Outcomes
As a result of its deliberate and strategic focus on research excellence, UB has achieved the following:
Research Expenditures
- R&D expenditures have risen from $353 million to $425 million annually
- This equates to a 20.4% increase over the last decade
Source: NSF Higher Education Research & Development Survey (NSF HERD)
National and International Recognition
- UB faculty are receiving national and international recognition with increasing frequency, including
- membership in the Academies
- a record number of NSF CAREER awards
- The total number of faculty awards has nearly doubled since 2012, rising from 374 in 2012 to 730 in 2020
Faculty Citations
- A significant metric of disciplinary impact, scholarly citations have increased 150 percent since 2012.
Source: Academic Analytics
Grants
- UB was awarded several large-center grants, including:
- The Clinical and Translational Science Award and 2020 renewal
- An NSF Science and Technology Award to establish BioXFEL, a research consortium developing new X-ray techniques to analyze targets for drug discovery
- 4 extensions of the landmark Women's Health Initiative
SUNY Distinguished Ranks
- The number of UB faculty appointed to SUNY's distinguished ranks has risen dramatically, accounting for nearly one-fifth of all the active distinguished ranks in the entire SUNY system
- In the previous two decades, the number of faculty appointed to these ranks has more than doubled