• From left to right: UB students Joycelyn Moss, Philip Sales and Shaina Chechang hold PPE materials that they, along with a team of other students, created for local dentists.
    How UB faculty, staff and students fought COVID-19
    12/21/20

    In a year of unrelenting challenges, members of the UB community have worked tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Person collecting samples in test tubes.
    Partnership to increase access to COVID trials
    12/21/20

    The Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences' partnership with Circuit Clinical will provide WNY patients access to COVID-19 clinical research opportunities.

  • Cecil Foster sitting at a table full of books.
    UB professor’s book inspires TV series
    12/21/20

    The CBC and BET co-production inspired by Cecil Foster's book about Black sleeping car porters is the largest Black-led TV production in Canada's history.

  • Close up view of a researcher using a pipette.
    UB launches Cancer Research Consortium
    12/18/20

    UB faculty have 97 active cancer research grant awards totaling more than $7 million.

  • Gloved hand holding a covid vaccine vial and syringe.
    Experts praise order for pharmacists giving COVID vaccine
    12/18/20

    Pharmacy faculty Karl Fiebelkorn and Christopher Daly say Cuomo's order removing the 90-day delay allows UB pharmacy students to play an active role in distributing the vaccine.

  • Biomedical Engineering Faculty Jonathan Lovell in Bonner Hall.
    Stepping up to fight COVID-19
    12/18/20

    Several of UB’s industry partners have pivoted their research and development efforts toward winning the battle against COVID-19.

  • Detail of the cover art for “Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics,” by Libby Otto.
    UB art historian wins major book award
    12/17/20

    Elizabeth Otto's "Haunted Bauhaus" has won the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association’s 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize.

  • The Scandinavian Artists’ Lunch at Café Ledoyen, Paris: Varnishing Day 1886, by Hugo Birger.
    It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people
    12/17/20

    Three members of the UB community argue why being stuck at home — and unable to hang out in cafes and bars — drains our creativity.

  • U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a media briefing in Wilmington on a YouTube video displayed on a screen of a smartphone.
    Focus on unity can take politics out of pandemic
    12/16/20

    UB’s Janet Yang says Biden’s appeal to sympathy and solidarity can influence people’s support for scientifically grounded response measures.

  • Concept of the "fragile X" genetic mutation.
    First treatment for Fragile X Syndrome moves closer
    12/15/20

    Co-developed by Tetra Therapeutics and UB, the drug improved language and daily functioning in patients during phase 2 clinical trials.

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