Research News

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  • UB launches Center for Translational AI and Digital Health
    6/8/26

    Center will advance emerging medical technologies that improve the speed, precision and accessibility in which people receive care.

  • Specialty stores don't need lower prices
    11/8/12

    Specialty stores do not have to compete with supermarket prices to increase sales, according to a recent study by the School of Management.

  • 'Microbubbles’ to help doctors see inside our bodies
    11/8/12

    UB researchers, working in collaboration with University Health Network in Toronto, have developed a novel contrast agent that could redefine what’s possible in the evolving field of medical imaging.

  • Therapy benefits heart block patients
    11/8/12

    Heart failure patients with a condition called “heart block” derive significant benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), according to the results of the Block HF clinical trial.

  • Nocturnal navigators
    11/1/12

    Bats are creatures of the night, designed by nature as nocturnal and, in many ways, defined by humanity through their association with the darkness, according to Phillips Stevens, UB associate professor of anthropology.

  • ‘Door-in-the-face’ strategy leads to verbal, but not behavioral compliance
    10/29/12
    The well-known “door-in-the-face” (DITF) persuasion strategy predicts greater compliance with a target request if it is preceded by a larger and more objectionable request.
  • Brains & Gains
    10/18/12

    Alzheimer’s disease, autism, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis are among the topics to be discussed at “Brains & Gains,” a free public event being held Oct. 20

  • 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.