• A large coral bleached white.
    Tackling crisis of coral bleaching
    12/2/20

    UB geologist Mary Alice Coffroth is part of a consortium that has created the first common framework for increasing comparability of research findings on coral bleaching.

  • Inside the lab at Garwood Medical Devices.
    UB-industry team drives health care innovation
    12/2/20

    UB scientists are working with startup Garwood Medical Devices to evaluate a medical device that utilizes UB-licensed technology and bring it a step closer to clinical use in amputees.

  • Concept of cannabinoid research featuring a prescription, a marijuana plant and CBD oil.
    Advancing cannabinoid science
    12/1/20

    UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences, led by director Gene Morse, will partner with CW Labs to further understanding of the therapeutic uses of cannabinoids.

  • Concept of coronavirus infection through the mucous membrains of the mouth and nose.
    Focus more on mucosal immunity in COVID-19 studies
    12/1/20

    Researchers led by UB's Michael Russell argue the mucosal immune system is the initial point of infection for the coronavirus.

  • Rear view of three older women walking along a leaf-covered road.
    For better heart health, step to it, pair of studies say
    11/30/20

    Taken together, the two papers send a powerful message: “Sit less, walk more for heart health,” says UB epidemiologist Michael LaMonte.

  • Printed pages, folded, inside a clear jar.
    Poetry and gaming as agents for social change
    11/30/20

    UB's Palah Light Lab takes a feminist and queer-centered approach in its mission of political engagement and social justice through instruction, poetry and gaming.

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science.
    Four professors named AAAS fellows
    11/30/20

    Eaton Lattman, Xiufeng Liu, Janet Morrow and Stefan Ruhl have been recognized for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science.

  • Bales of compressed plastic bottles.
    Addressing plastic pollution crisis
    11/25/20

    UB researchers are turning to AI-guided robots and chemical recycling to make discarded plastic easier to reuse.

  • Thomas A. LaVeist.
    Speaker calls for ‘true studies’ of health disparities
    11/25/20

    Perry lecturer Thomas LaVeist says researchers must look at communities where residents have the same risk profiles and socioeconomic status.

  • Concept of chronic pain: a human torso wrapped with barbed wire.
    Studying chronic pain
    11/24/20

    UB sociologist Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk has received a grant to develop a research program in the demography of chronic pain.

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