Research News

UB researchers made headlines around the world this year with studies on coffee, climate change, babies’ eating habits and more.

While doctors often use an endoscope to help detect cancer and other illnesses, it may soon serve another purpose: zapping tumors.

Internationally recognized materials scientist Amit Goyal has been named director of RENEW, UB’s new interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research and education on globally pressing problems in energy, environment and water.

Two UB geologists working on climate change research have formed a unique partnership that combines their different disciplines.

UB Engineering faculty member Natalia Litchinitser has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Some drugs used to treat diabetes mimic the behavior of a hormone that a UB psychologist has learned controls fluid intake in subjects, a finding that creates new awareness for diabetics, who already are at risk for dehydration.

UB researcher Alexander N. Cartwright, who serves as SUNY’s provost and executive vice chancellor, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

New research from UB scientists will help pharmacologists better understand how drugs work and how to make them more effective.

A new UB study has shown that smoking can inhibit the success of treatment for alcohol abuse, putting people who are addicted to both tobacco and alcohol in a double bind.

UB geophysicist Beata Csatho’s work provides the first detailed look at how the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass.