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.

  • UB’s Human Rights Center releases immigration report
    3/31/26

    The report found “serious violations” of the rights of WNYers due to cooperation of local and state agencies with immigration enforcement.

  • Foltz-Ramos named National Academies of Practice Fellow
    3/31/26

    The distinction recognizes the UB nursing professor's contributions to the profession and to interprofessional health care.

  • Read to lead CRIA
    3/30/26

    Under her leadership, the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions will embody new strategies, such as AI, to advance addiction research, prevention and treatment.

  • Successful minority employees can create false sense of diversity
    3/27/26

    A new study finds an unexpected downside to highly successful women and racial minorities in organizations.

  • Five UB researchers elected AAAS fellows
    3/26/26

    Jason Briner, Hao Zeng, Jo Freudenheim, Keith Kirkwood and Jun Zhuang are now members of the prestigious scientific society.

  • Solving protein structures made simple
    3/26/26

    Jacobs School researchers have shown how an electron diffraction technique can quickly and efficiently create high-resolution molecular maps.

  • New system aims to detect amount of recycled plastic in plastic products
    3/25/26

    UB researchers want to provide regulators and others a quick and reliable way to assess sustainability claims.

  • New AI method curbs errors in chest X-ray reports
    3/24/26

    A UB team has developed a framework that reduces common errors by anchoring report generation to what appears in the medical image.

  • Arctic-glaciology conference looks to next generation
    3/24/26

    Climate expert Richard Alley’s message to students attending the event: We need you.