Research News

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  • UB-HWI center receives NIH funding
    9/4/26

    The National Crystallization Center has contributed to groundbreaking research on SARS-CoV2, nicotine addiction and antibiotic resistance.

     

  • Genomic explanation for schizophrenia
    1/31/13

    New UB research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life.

  • Advancing searches for ancient texts
    1/24/13

    “Tesserae,” a new classics search engine developed at UB, advances comparison and analysis of ancient texts.

  • Verbal aggression may be biologically based
    1/24/13

    A new UB study has found that verbal aggression may have biological causes that can be identified by the ratio of length of a person’s ring finger—second digit—to the length of the index finger—fourth digit.

  • Working to prevent recurrent ear infections
    1/24/13

    A UB research team has received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a vaccine against Moraxella catarrhalis, an increasingly prevalent bacterium that causes at least 10 percent of children's inner ear infections.

  • Finn presents findings on school discipline
    1/24/13

    UB Graduate School of Education faculty member Jeremy D. Finn recently was a speaker at a national conference on school discipline, suspensions, security and misbehavior, with special emphasis on alternatives to excluding students from schools.

  • Using silicon to produce hydrogen
    1/24/13

    Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to UB researchers.

  • Social media pays off
    1/24/13

    Customers who connect with a business through social media will go to the business more frequently and contribute more to its bottom line, according to a new study from the School of Management.

  • Awesome inventions
    1/24/13

    Nanoparticles that “teach” the immune system to tolerate protein-based drugs. Vascular grafts that stimulate regeneration of blood vessels in a patient’s body. These innovations may sound like the stuff of the future, but they’re part of a portfolio of inventions that UB announced over the past year.

  • Weighing in on gun control debate
    1/21/13

    The debate about gun control in the U.S. is not related to American Revolutionary thought, as gun control opponents often claim, but is grounded in post-Civil War paranoia, according to a UB historian.

  • Leadership can reduce employee cynicism, increase engagement
    1/13/13
    Management efforts to reduce cynicism and enhance employee empowerment can have a large impact on employee engagement, according to a School of Management study.