Research News

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  • Crystals in a new light
    2/12/26

    A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

  • 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.

  • 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.