A group of faculty members in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has organized a creativity and innovation workshop, “The Creative Scientist: A Dialogue on Breaking Out of the Box,” which will take place in June.
Representatives of UB, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute joined Rep. Brian Higgins at a Buffalo rally to raise awareness about the local impact of federal budget cuts on medical research.
The UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Initiative has expanded its faculty research fellowship offerings for the 2012-13 academic year, providing awards to eight faculty members for two new fellowships.
Minakshi Trivedi, professor and chair of the doctoral program in the Department of Marketing in the School of Management, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research and teach in India.
A UB-led research team recently traveled to Zimbabwe to take part in a week-long program of workshops that included the formal launch of the Zimbabwe International Nanotechnology Center and Evidence-To-Action, an implementation project to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.
UB’s Research Institute on Addictions has been awarded a national grant to refine a telephone-based clinical-assessment tool for evaluating the training of drug and alcohol counselors and conduct a psychometric evaluation of its effectiveness.
A growing body of research by UB multiple sclerosis investigators is demonstrating that the thalamus region of the brain is key to a host of issues involving the disease.
