Research News

Jason benedict looking at a crystal.
  • Crystals in a new light
    2/12/26

    A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

  • NIH awards UB $16 million CTSA grant
    8/13/15

    UB has received a prestigious $16 million Clinical and Translational Science Award to speed the delivery of new drugs, diagnostics and medical devices to patients.

  • Big data’s role in transportation
    8/13/15

    Leaders in the emerging field of transportation informatics are gathering at UB for the first annual symposium aimed at addressing the role of big data in addressing critical transportation issues.

  • Humanities funding
    8/13/15

    UB is among 14 SUNY campuses awarded $160,000 for projects supported by the SUNY Arts and Humanities Network of Excellence.

  • Benefiting from clinical research
    8/13/15

    UB's new Clinical and Translational Science Award provides significant resources to help advance translational research by emphasizing partnerships with underserved communities in Western New York.

  • Race and Medicare Part D
    8/13/15

    A new study by UB faculty member Louanne Bakk is the first to examine how race and gender relate to the coverage gap in Medicare Part D.

  • Surprising fungus with ‘Trojan horse’
    8/10/15

    UB dental researchers are borrowing a famous strategy from Greek warfare — the Trojan horse — to fight a fungus that exists in the mouths and skin of nearly half of the world’s population.

  • Saving sponges
    8/10/15

    UB chemist Jason Benedict lands a prestigious NSF CAREER award to do research that could help extend the lives of light-activated crystal sponges.

  • Tops in the sandbox
    8/6/15

    Buffalo Automation Group, a startup robotics company founded by three UB engineering students, won the top prize last week at the inaugural Buffalo Student Sandbox contest.

  • Without complete certainty, families will cling to hope
    8/6/15

    Debris that washed up on a remote island must be identified with certainty as coming from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in order to give closure to the families of the victims, UB trauma expert Nancy Smyth says.

  • Wrecked plans, imagined futures
    8/6/15

    UB faculty member Dave Alff has been awarded an NEH stipend to travel to England to investigate rare manuscripts outlining projects that sought to advance British society in the 1600s and 1700s.