• Screen shot of animation showing concept of "deprescribing" featuring an elderly patient accompanied by a family member discussing medication with a team of health professionals.
    Improving medication use among older adults
    10/26/20

    UB’s Team Alice will evaluate a video designed to encourage de-prescribing talks with doctors and assess its impact on medication use.

  • Concept of voter suppression featuring a ballot box on top of a rock in the middle of a tumultuous ocean.
    Voter suppression at play in upcoming election
    10/26/20

    UB election law expert James Gardner says a global trend toward authoritarianism is evident in this year’s presidential election.

  • Sunstar Group Chairman Hiroo Kaneda shaking hands with Robert Genco in 2003.
    UB receives $1 million to establish Sunstar Genco chair
    10/26/20

    The endowed fund is a tribute to the 40-plus-year partnership Genco spearheaded that led to pioneering advances in periodontal health.

  • A variety of pills with prescription bottles in the background.
    34% of older adults prescribed problematic drugs
    10/26/20

    The UB study also found that these potentially inappropriate drugs cost patients on average $450 a year.

  • A doctor performs a saliva swab test on a patient.
    UB researchers help identify concussion biomarker in saliva
    10/23/20

    The multi-institutional study could lead to development of an objective, simple test to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury.

  • Steven Travis and Diana Aga in the lab with tern eggs.
    Legacy pollutants found in migratory terns in Great Lakes
    10/23/20

    A UB study concludes that PCBs, PBDEs and metabolites of DDT threaten the terns throughout their lives, from the moment they hatch.

  • Coronavirus vaccine concept with a hand in blue medical gloves holding a syringe and Covid-19 vaccine vial.
    Could adjuvants play a role in successful COVID-19 vaccine?
    10/22/20

    These agents can stimulate the immune system to “take another look” at a foreign body.

  • Illustration with American flags and flying dollar bills.
    Federal government backs most promising startups
    10/21/20

    The U.S. government is good at identifying successful entrepreneurial ventures, according to new School of Management research.

  • View of a rocket from the bottom looking upwards.
    UB awarded $8.5M to improve ‘hybrid’ space rockets
    10/20/20

    Researchers will simulate and help design safe, low-cost motors to propel nanosatellites and other vehicles into space.

  • Eviction notice taped to a door.
    Eviction a problem long before pandemic
    10/19/20

    The public health crisis has intensified, rather than created, a festering national housing issue, says UB social work researcher Kelly Patterson.

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