Research News

The exhibit “Serenades for Settling: Tending Ostreidae” with several large screens of ocean life in a darkened room.
  • Listen like an oyster
    12/12/25

    An immersive, multimedia exhibition invites audiences into an underwater world of oysters, and how human-made sounds might affect them. 

  • Don’t worry, be happy? It’s not that simple
    6/1/23

    New UB research suggests that people’s beliefs about happiness matter in shaping their everyday goal pursuits and well-being. 

  • Climate change to push species, reduce their habitats
    5/30/23

    Rising temperatures may force species to move to new locations to survive, which might not be possible, researchers say.

  • Arany receives dental laser research award
    5/30/23

    The T. H. Maiman Award from the Academy of Laser Dentistry recognizes the UB oral biologist for his work on photobiomodulation.

  • PhD student chosen for prestigious DOE research program
    5/24/23

    Chemical engineer Lili Rassouli is studying ways to convert solar energy into other clean fuels.

  • Fliesler receives LSU honor for second time
    5/23/23

    The Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology recognizes the UB faculty member's major discoveries in the field.

  • UB researcher receives Radcliffe Fellowship
    5/18/23

    Eduardo Mercado III’s “Singers as Sentinels” project will explore how human noise pollution presents a new threat to whales’ survival.

  • Three named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    5/18/23

    UB faculty members Xiufeng Liu, Thomas Thundat and Robert Zivadinov have been promoted to the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

  • Defining the boundaries of human motion
    5/16/23

    UB anthropologists are looking at the fundamental adaptations in the human body that enable us to throw accurately.

  • Access to cannabis for cancer patients is not equitable
    5/15/23

    The same factors driving health care disparities in the U.S. are also affecting who has access to cannabis for cancer symptom treatment.

  • Bruner Foundation’s $5M gift to support new center at UB
    5/12/23

    The architecture school will establish the Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence, building on the body of work by the national Rudy Bruner Award.