For the fifth straight year, UB faculty member Gene D. Morse has been invited to lead a session on research capacity building at an international conference.
UB’s Alexander N. Cartwright joined nine other senior research officers from major U.S. universities in Washington, D.C., yesterday for a panel discussion on science, economic development and U.S. global competitiveness.
A pilot program offering free Metro Rail use to members of the UB community helped participants reduce their carbon footprints and explore new places, a study has found.
Researchers at UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have found that cognitive assessment can help measure the expertise of surgeons who perform robot-assisted surgery.
Eight UB faculty members are part of SUNY Health Network projects that will research treatments and cures for such diseases as tuberculosis and brain disorders including stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
The new institute in the School of Social Work will work to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees in Western New York through research on issues involving the welfare of newcomers.
Geology graduate student William Philipps will travel to the Arctic to collect data to test the prediction that the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice-Sheet melted later than 12,000 years ago.
UB researchers have found that fear and worry about skin cancer had a bigger influence on people’s use of sunscreen than information about the statistical likelihood of developing the disease.
UB scientists have identified the single transcription factor, or “master switch,” that initiates the critical myelination process in the brain, a finding that is key to developing MS treatments using stem cells.
