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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.

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Jamming up traffic in the brain
10/31/13
A new UB study shows how the wrong levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer’s disease can lead to dangerous blockages in brain cells.
Gone 'phishing'
10/25/13
UB faculty member Arun Vishwanath is studying how people fall victim to cyber phishing and what tools can be used to protect them.
Media expert disputes homicide claim
10/24/13
Faculty member Josephine Anstey says the relationship between cause and effect in the case of violent video games has not been established.
The joy of discovery
10/24/13
A genome project funded by the National Science Foundation aims to recruit local and regional high school students to pursue STEM careers.
Telling their story
10/24/13
A new book by UB anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo describes how the Mapuche people of south-central Chile weave myth and history to write their story.
Increasing cancer screening
10/24/13
UB is collaborating on a $2 million federal study to determine what influences African-Americans to get screened for colorectal cancer and to develop interventions based on those influences.
Increasing organ donation consent
10/17/13
UB communication faculty member Ashley Anker has received a
$630,468 federal grant for a project aimed at increasing family consent to organ donation.
Rittenhouse-Olson fighting cancer For-Robin
10/17/13
UB faculty member Kate Rittenhouse-Olson's cancer therapeutics company is named after her sister, Robin, who died from the disease.
Taking the Internet underwater
10/17/13
UB researchers are developing a deep-sea computing network to improve how we detect tsunamis, monitor pollution and conduct surveillance.
Nobel adds to Higgs boson thrill
10/10/13
UB physicists who took part in the search for the Higgs boson were excited by the announcement earlier this week of a Higgs-related Nobel Prize in Physics.

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