Research News

Map view of the Great Lakes.
  • UB awarded $5 million to lead new Great Lakes Research Consortium
    6/17/26

    UB will play an expanded role in researching and protecting the largest group of freshwater bodies on Earth.

  • UB to host Marie Curie fellow
    5/20/26

    Art historian Ilenia Pittui will conduct research at UB on the iconography of the Ottoman and Safavid worlds.

  • Swihart receives mentoring award
    5/18/26

    The SUNY Distinguished Professor is the 2026 recipient of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

  • Buffalo without lake-effect snow?
    5/15/26

    UB researchers have uncovered new evidence of a reverse snowbelt in which an Ice Age wind system pushed Great Lakes snowstorms west instead of east.

  • AI spots hidden security flaws in hundreds of 5G smartphone models
    5/14/26

    The UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm, and leads to work with Apple and Google.

  • Grant awarded Chancellor’s Horizon Award
    5/14/26

    The award honors scholarly or creative activities that have already achieved significant recognition and hold strong promise for field-defining impact.

  • Indigenous Studies PhD candidate earns Smithsonian fellowship
    5/13/26

    Delaney O'Connell explores how returning ancestral belongings — and sometimes allowing their destruction — can better serve communities.

  • AI can help find best youth vaping-cessation strategies
    5/8/26

    UB cancer researchers applied machine learning and XAI to find out why some tactics work and others don't.

  • Building AI for children from the ground up
    5/7/26

    UB's National AI Institute for Exceptional Education's work building exceptional education tools was on display as NSF and IES officials came to UB for a site visit.

  • Shedding light on lipid asymmetry in cell membranes
    5/6/26

    A UB study finds that cells tune membrane properties to regulate communication, transport and other duties.

  • Potatoes may have shaped genetic makeup of Indigenous Andeans
    5/6/26

    A study found that natural selection favored those with a high number of starch-digesting genes following the domestication of potatoes in the Andes.