The School of Social Work has launched the Institute on Sustainable Global Engagement to encourage activities that extend trauma-informed treatment, human rights perspectives and other themes championed by the school to other parts of the world.
UB anthropologist Caroline Funk is researching human impacts on resources and environmental/ecological histories by studying the impacts of the prehistoric Aleuts on Kiska Island in Alaska's western Aleutians.
UB has been working with the University of Zimbabwe to establish training programs for scientists and citizens in an ongoing effort to study, reduce and treat the incidence of HIV in Zimbabwe.
A new book by UB political sociologist Barbara Wejnert has found that nations consistently are drawn to democratic reform not by what is happening inside their own nations, but by an attraction to what is going on in other places.
UB statistician Alan Hutson says the odds of picking the winners of all 63 NCAA basketball tournament games — and winning Warren Buffett’s $1 billion sweepstakes — are "infinitesimal."
UB research has found that social relationships, fatigue and other coexisting medical problems have a stronger effect on how patients with irritable bowel syndrome rate their overall health than the severity of their gastrointestinal symptoms.
UB cognitive scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that humans have separate and distinct cognitive systems with which they can categorize, classify and conceptualize their worlds.
UB faculty member Heather Orom is working with partners in the Delavan-Grider neighborhood to build a healthier community in this section of the East Side of Buffalo.
