Research News

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  • Can AI help spot ‘healthy’ viruses in our bodies?
    5/21/26

    UB researchers have been awarded $1.6 million grant to use lab methods and AI to probe the human virome.

  • UB joins Great Lakes project
    10/18/12

    UB and 20 other U.S. and Canadian universities and institutions will join forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes, and train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them.

  • UB makes public shale report
    10/12/12

    UB last month provided the SUNY Board of Trustees, per its request, with a report that summarizes the facts and circumstances regarding formation of the Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI).

  • Aga recognized with science education award
    10/11/12

    UB faculty member Diana Aga and Lewiston-Porter High School teachers Michelle Hinchliffe and Colleen Glor have won a national science education award for their efforts to train student scientists to measure pharmaceutical contamination in Niagara County waterways.

  • Civic engagement fellowships awarded
    10/9/12

    The UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy strategic initiative (CEPP) has awarded five new Civic Engagement Research Fellowships for 2012-13 to UB scholars in fields of communications and health sciences, education, law and social work.

  • Nanoparticles glow through thick tissue
    10/9/12

    An international research team, including UB scientists, has created unique photo-luminescent nanoparticles that shine through thick tissue.

  • Studying brief, violent life of monogenetic volcanoes
    10/8/12
    A new study in the journal Geology is shedding light on the brief but violent lives of maar-diatreme volcanoes, which erupt when magma and water meet in an explosive marriage below the surface of the earth.
  • Book sheds new light on felony murder
    10/8/12

    UB recognized faculty and staff members for their outstanding achievements during the past year at the annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Excellence.

  • Book reveals health hazards from coal
    9/27/12

    Coal kills. That’s the message of “The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health” by Alan H. Lockwood, UB emeritus professor of neurology.

  • Law clinic builds dreams, opportunities
    9/27/12

    UB’s Affordable Housing Clinic has given thousands of community members a chance at basic services and safe, clean living spaces—all while teaching UB law students marketable skills in the complicated world of nonprofit financing and government grants.

  • Capturing an undersea mating ritual
    9/27/12

    Five UB investigators traveled to the Florida Keys to study an underwater mating ritual: coral spawning.