Research News

UB researchers are exploring new applications for brain-computer interface devices, including manufacturing and medicine.

UB undergraduates will travel to  Peru next summer to research the biological and chemical properties of indigenous medicinal plants and study ways in which the plants are used by the region’s native healers.

A UB education professor has sided with the environment in the timeless “nurture vs. nature” debate after his research found that a child’s ability to read depends mostly on where that child is born, rather than on his or her individual qualities.

A team of UB social workers recently spent 10 days in India working with colleagues there who are advancing children's rights through innovative programs and legal activism.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.