Postmenopausal women who have smoked are at much higher risk of losing their teeth than women who never smoked, according to a new study by UB researchers.
The cleanup of one of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods holds lessons for preserving a community’s industrial identity in the face of gentrification, a new study finds.
A brick wall imitating part of a New York City row house (often called a “brownstone”) suffered minor damage but remained intact during a simulation of the 2011 Virginia earthquake, according to a preliminary analysis of tests conducted Feb. 19 at UB.
Tonus Therapeutics, a UB spinoff that is developing a muscular dystrophy drug discovered first in the venom of a South American spider, has moved into UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
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.
