Research News

The exhibit “Serenades for Settling: Tending Ostreidae” with several large screens of ocean life in a darkened room.
  • Listen like an oyster
    12/12/25

    An immersive, multimedia exhibition invites audiences into an underwater world of oysters, and how human-made sounds might affect them. 

  • Dean chairs symposium
    2/6/14

    Dental dean Michael Glick has organized the first international symposium on the association between oral diseases and systemic health.

  • UB launches RENEW
    2/6/14

    The ambitious, university-wide, interdisciplinary research institute will focus on the most difficult and complex environmental issues, as well as the social and economic issues with which they are intertwined.

  • Rabideau named fellow
    2/6/14

    Environmental engineer Alan Rabideau will coordinate UB's new
    RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water) initiative as the first Research and Economic Development Leadership Fellow.

  • High-risk volcanoes
    2/6/14

    UB volcanologists Michael Sheridan and Alison Graettinger talk about the risks surrounding some of the world’s most dangerous mountains and how communities in these areas can protect themselves.

  • UB deans strongly support the vision for RENEW
    2/6/14
    “Cities, urban activities and our built environment are some of the greatest contributors to global environmental change. They have profound effects on energy infrastructure, land use, water quality and the atmosphere.  At the same time, ecological and sustainability ethics have significantly influenced the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and design. With this initiative, the School of Architecture and Planning has an unprecedented opportunity to work across the disciplines to advance new knowledge and research on these globally significant issues.”
  • Risky business for at-risk drinkers
    1/30/14

    A study by the Research Institute on Addictions has found that men who are prone to problem drinking are especially at risk on Super Bowl Sunday.

  • Truth about illicit drug use
    1/30/14

    National Drug Facts Week aims to “shatter the myths” teens may hold about drug use and abuse — and work at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions supports that message.

  • Rust Belt gentrification
    1/30/14

    UB researcher Robert Silverman challenges assumptions that quality affordable housing is readily available in shrinking cities.

  • Nanos named Wilson fellow
    1/30/14

    UB researcher Nikita (Nik) Nanos has been named a global fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

  • High-tech sponge
    1/30/14

    The sponges of the future will do more than clean house.