UB faculty member Samina Raja, who has spent almost a decade conducting research in the field of food security, has received a $3.96 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to extend research she has conducted in Buffalo and Western New York to communities across the U.S.
UB materials chemist Eva Zurek has received a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, which provides leading early-career investigators with a two-year, $50,000 award to conduct research of their choice.
Two UB education professors known for their pioneering work in teacher education and the integration of digital media into public school classrooms have edited a book celebrating what they call “an essential new literacy” in American schools.
UB submitted two of the 10 winning proposals in the inaugural Small Grant Sustainability Competition, a competition organized by SUNY to promote sustainability issues and reduce on-campus energy use.
UB engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, stealth technology and other areas of research.
UB researchers will conduct a rare, large-scale earthquake simulation next week to determine how vulnerable New York City’s unreinforced masonry buildings—row houses—are to temblors.
A team of UB researchers has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to support the collection, analysis and exchange of scientific data for scientists investigating immunology and immune-mediated diseases.
UB faculty members received five of the nine research grants awarded during the initial round of funding from the new SUNY Research Collaboration Fund.
Traditionally, research at universities is carried out by graduate students. Timothy Tryjankowski, director of UB’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, believes the norm is changing.
