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. 

  • Heading to court
    11/14/13

    UB law professors Anthony O'Rourke and Guyora Binder have roles in major national cases that may reach the highest levels of the federal judiciary.

  • Facilitating health studies
    11/7/13

    UB graduate student Michael Healy spent the summer in India, where he worked on two major projects that will employ new technologies to screen for oral and cervical cancers in high-risk populations.

  • Gift supports schizophrenia research
    11/7/13

    A gift of $600,000 from the Patrick P. Lee Foundation is funding a UB scientist’s promising research on the cause of schizophrenia.

  • Bystanders' role in bullying
    11/7/13

    The Miami Dolphins scandal raises questions about the role that bystanders who may witness bullying can play, the director of UB’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention says.

  • Next-generation crystallography
    11/7/13

    UB, representing a national consortium of eight research universities and institutes, has been awarded a prestigious $25-million Science and Technology Center grant from the National Science Foundation to transform the field of structural biology, including drug development, using X-ray lasers.

  • Stingrays inspire research
    11/7/13

    Stingrays move through water with such ease that UB researchers are studying how their movements could be used to build more agile and maneuverable unmanned underwater vehicles.

     

  • Cahn receives Vanderbilt fellowship
    11/1/13

    History faculty member Susan Cahn has received a prestigious William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Center.

  • Improving transit, sidewalk access
    10/31/13

    As part of a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, UB researchers are studying ways to make buses safer and more accessible for all riders.

  • NIH funds UB pharmacology initiatives
    10/31/13

    UB has received several grants totaling $1.86 million from the National Institutes of Health that will expand HIV pharmacology research to include drug development for hepatitis C and tuberculosis.

  • eHarmony® for research
    10/31/13

    UB has joined the national database ResearchMatch that brings together volunteers who want to participate in research with university investigators who are recruiting subjects for their studies.