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.

  • Cybersecurity Grant
    9/24/12
    UB has received a $1.6 million federal grant to teach students how to protect the United States from cyberattacks.
  • Revealing new drug targets
    9/20/12

    Biomedical scientists collaborating on translational research at two Buffalo institutions are reporting the discovery of a novel, and heretofore unrecognized, set of genes essential for the growth of potentially lethal, drug-resistant bacteria.

  • Batman saves men’s body image
    9/20/12

    Batman’s awesome power may come not only from his ability to defeat the likes of Mr. Freeze and the Joker, but from the fact that his mere presence makes his devoted fans feel strong and physically fit.

  • Techne Institute
    9/20/12
    The realms in which creativity and information technologies meet are dynamic areas of research. They depend, however, on new kinds of creative collaboration to provoke a greater understanding of our world, generate jobs, produce revenue and improve quality of life.
  • Obama likely to win popular vote
    9/20/12

    UB political scientist internationally recognized for highly accurate election prediction models says President Obama is likely to receive 51.3 percent of votes cast in the November election.

  • A new material for the computing industry
    9/17/12

    UB researchers are among scientists working to identify materials that could one day replace silicon to make computing faster. Their latest find: a vanadium oxide bronze whose unusual electrical properties could increase the speed at which information is transferred and stored.

  • Ice sheets and climate change
    9/17/12

    A new study in the journal Science is helping to unravel an important mystery surrounding climate change: how quickly glaciers can melt and grow in response to shifts in temperature.

  • Zukoski reaffirms commitment to academic freedom
    9/13/12

    Provost Charles Zukoski issued a memo to the university community on Wednesday affirming the university’s commitment to academic freedom and noting that it is “right and proper” for UB faculty to seek—and the university to accept—private-sector funding in support of scholarly activities.

  • Nitchinitser tackles evolving field of optics
    9/13/12

    Will humans ever control lightning? Could we make the invisible visible, and vice versa? It’s those questions and more that researchers such as UB's Natalia Litchinitser are exploring in the evolving field of modern optics.

  • Grant from NFL to assist concussion assessment
    9/13/12

    UB sports medicine researchers have been awarded $100,000 from NFL Charities to develop the most objective, scientific method of determining when an athlete who has had a concussion can safely return to play.