Research News

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  • 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.

  • Fighting resistant 'superbugs'
    6/18/14

    A $4.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow UB researchers to fight "superbugs" using an old antibiotic.

  • Vision scientist elected to board
    6/13/14

    UB faculty member Steven Fliesler as been elected to the board of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the world's largest eye research society.

  • Grant to fund study of women's oral health
    6/12/14

    UB researchers have received an interdisciplinary bioinformatics grant of nearly $4 million from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to conduct a prospective study of the oral microbiome and periodontitis in postmenopausal women.

  • Lyon receives major book award
    6/12/14

    Faculty member Arabella Lyon has received the 2014 Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America for the best work in rhetorical study published in 2013.

  • Levy named Neurosurgery section editor
    6/12/14

    Faculty member Elad I. Levy has been named editor of the new endovascular section for Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

  • Kofke named fellow
    6/5/14

    David Kofke, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

  • Student-built rover competes at NASA
    6/5/14

    The UB Space Bulls have designed and assembled a model Mars rover to compete in a contest at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

  • Spurring economic development
    6/5/14

    Eight companies have been selected as the inaugural group of START-UP NY companies relocating on or near the UB campuses.

  • Leading the conversation
    6/5/14

    The Congress for New Urbanism is holding its national conference in Buffalo, and faculty members and students from UB’s School of Architecture and Planning are among those leading the conversation.

  • Traffic jams that can disappear in 30 seconds
    6/5/14

    UB researchers have found that blockages in fruit fly brains form quickly and dissolve, a finding that could help treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Huntington's.