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.

  • 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.

  • 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.