Research News

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  • Keep your chin up
    2/18/26

    A UB-led study shows that the chin is an evolutionary accident.

  • Introducing new products
    5/8/14

    A new study from the School of Management advises companies to use existing brands and add new sub-brands to maximize revenue when introducing new products to market.

  • Commitment to environmental research
    5/8/14

    Working as part of the RENEW initiative, UB researchers are tackling the major issues related to energy, water and the environment.

  • Dimick awarded fellowship
    5/8/14

    UB faculty member Alexa Dimick has been chosen as a 2014 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, considered the most prestigious and highly competitive fellowship for early career scholars in education.

  • New health benefit found from eating mushrooms
    5/1/14

    A preliminary study of the effects of mushroom ingestion on health conducted by UB researchers has found that consumption of portabellas could be useful in regulating glucose levels.

  • Salute to faculty authors
    5/1/14

    UB will recognize more than 105 authors, contributing authors and editors at “An Anthology of Recognition: The Sixth Salute to UB Authors" on May 5.

  • Directing digital communications
    5/1/14

    Already known for merging proven science classwork with state-of-the-art technology, UB faculty member Randy Yerrick has taken on another role to help bring science educational resources into the digital age.

  • CCS Oncology donates funds to UB
    5/1/14

    CCS Oncology has donated $185,000 to UB to support innovations in patient safety using health information technology, more commonly known as electronic patient records.

  • Halting cocaine addiction
    4/24/14

    A novel compound that targets an important brain receptor has a dramatic effect against a host of cocaine addiction behaviors, including relapse behavior, a UB animal study has found.

  • MRI scanner hoisted into CTRC
    4/17/14

    A 7-ton magnetic resonance imaging scanner that will make possible groundbreaking research into multiple sclerosis, stroke and other diseases was delivered to UB’s Clinical and Translational Research Center last week.

  • Reed-Danahay receives NEH grant
    4/17/14

    Anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay has received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete the draft manuscript of her fifth book.