• Cover artwork for "The Mark of Slavery" by Jenifer L. Barclay, featuring an illustration of a young Black child in profile with butterflies on their cheek.
    Book explores slavery, disability in antebellum America
    2/18/22

    Enslaved people with disabilities often filled valuable family and cultural roles in their communities, UB historian Jenifer Barclay says.

  • Smiling woman gesturing to colleagues seated around a conference table.
    Communication skills predict leaders at work
    2/17/22

    Outgoing and talkative people don't necessarily communicate effectively and inspire others to view them as leaders, new research has found.

  • Man in bed looking at a device.
    It beats counting sheep
    2/11/22

    A study led by communication professor Lindsay Hahn suggests that media use under certain conditions just before going to sleep doesn’t always disrupt your rest.

  • Illustration showing different phases of the sensor-building process. One image shows the gold nanostrips. Another shows ODT-coated gold nanostrips. Two others show the liquid gallium being deposited and then removed.
    New chip could lead to new point-of-care medical tests
    2/10/22

    The key to the tiny, reusable sensing chips are “nanopatch antennas” made with liquid metal that trap light to identify biological and chemical molecules.

  • View of a graben in Iceland.
    As tectonic plates pull apart, what drives formation of rifts?
    2/10/22

    Research on a young rift in Iceland led by UB geologist Stephan Kolzenburg sheds new light on the process.

  • Lonely looking senior woman wearing surgical mask and looking through a window.
    Loneliness increases among older women during pandemic
    2/9/22

    Researchers call the rise in loneliness and loss of social connections a “silent epidemic.”

  • A student preparing to test waste water in Ian Bradley's lab.
    UB to expand COVID wastewater surveillance in WNY
    2/8/22

    Two partnerships will provide tools for more efficient testing, and to bring wastewater monitoring to the region’s four other counties.

  • Female doctor measuring overweight boy in clinic.
    Bariatric surgery reverses low testosterone in obese male teens
    2/8/22

    Findings of the UB-led study underscore the threat that obesity poses to the health and fertility of young men.

  • Medical professional holding a telemedicine session with a patient, who's seen on the screen of a laptop.
    Bringing telemedicine to sleep apnea patients
    2/8/22

    School of Management researchers have helped to develop a digital platform to meet a rising demand.

  • UB chemistry PhD candidate Rebecca Dickman in the lab with UB chemistry professor Diana Aga.
    Taking the ‘forever’ out of toxic ‘forever chemicals’
    2/7/22

    UB researchers focus on breaking down PFAS, a family of highly persistent pollutants that can accumulate in people’s bodies, and in wildlife.

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