Research News

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  • Where there's smoke, fewer birds
    7/21/26

    UB study compared air quality data with birdwatching reports, including during historic 2023 wildfire season.

  • UB scientists awarded Genesis Mission grants
    7/24/26

    The awards from the Department of Energy showcase the university’s leadership in applied AI and quantum science and engineering.

  • High-tech workforce training
    7/23/26

    NSF awards totaling $950,000 will help UB prepare the next generation of the U.S. workforce in AI, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing.

  • Improving trauma triage accuracy
    7/23/26

    Jacobs School researchers tested how LLMs could be used to help improve the accuracy of initial emergency medical services information.

  • Applegarth to co-lead Grand Challenge
    7/23/26

    Social work researcher has been tapped for initiative to promote smart decarceration.

  • School choice and income segregation
    7/22/26

    Parents tend to avoid classrooms populated by a large number of students from low-income families, UB psychologists say.

  • Where there's smoke, fewer birds
    7/21/26

    UB study compared air quality data with birdwatching reports, including during historic 2023 wildfire season.

  • Creating complex drugs, quicker
    7/20/26

    Surprisingly simple tools allow UB chemists to modify two carbon atoms in a single reaction.

  • Testing eye health with quantum optics
    7/16/26

    Engineered light transforms Boehm’s brushes from a faint visual pattern into a much brighter one that could help catch retinal disease.

  • Tracking police accountability
    7/16/26

    School of Management study links newspaper closures to distorted crime reporting.

  • Researching neutral-atom quantum computing
    7/15/26

    UB physicist receives two federal grants totaling $1.1 million to advance future quantum technologies.