Masonry structures, which make up about 60 percent of the buildings in Nepal where the earthquake hit, perform poorly in a quake, according to UB civil engineer Andreas Stavridis.
UB microbiologist Michael Russell writes in the journal mBio that scientists must develop a better understanding of the human immune system and its adaptability in order to deal with increasing drug resistence and deadly viral pathogens.
UB Law professor Michael Boucai believes there is overwhelming evidence to suggest the Supreme Court will grant same-sex couples the right to marry and that the decision hinges on Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Five companies, including one founded by two UB medical researchers and another by a UB alumnus, have been approved for START-UP NY through their affiliation with the university.
The "game-changing" stroke treatment reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine was long in coming, with UB neurosurgeons developing many of the techniques back in the 1990s.
A new study by UB researchers has found that parents who chronically fail to provide for their children contribute to the likelihood that they will develop aggressive and delinquent tendencies later in adolescence.
A biotechnology venture that offers a revolutionary new way to deliver cancer drugs has earned three graduate students first place in UB’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.
