• Concept of political divide featuring the American flag as a boat in the water being torn in half by two people rowing in opposite directions.
    Why can't we be friends? Politics
    10/13/20

    Communication professor Melanie Green says social media and linking political parties to morality and identity have made maintaining friendships challenging.

  • Murali Ramanathan, professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, pictured in a lab.
    Study to explore neurodegeneration progression in MS
    10/12/20

    UB researchers will investigate whether impaired metabolic pathways precede neurodegeneration in MS patients.

  • Alison Des Forges.
    Alison Des Forges symposium set for Oct. 15
    10/7/20

    The virtual conference honoring the memory of the internationally known historian will examine the human rights dimensions of popular uprisings and regime change.

  • Silhouette of a family standing in front of a border fence.
    No link between undocumented immigration, crime
    10/6/20

    A UB-led study of undocumented immigration suggests that, on average, this population reduced or had no effect on crime in 154 U.S. metro areas.

  • Hospital patient pictured with a pulse oximeter on their finger.
    Improving patient safety with pain medications
    10/5/20

    UB’s Carla Jungquist oversaw the local site of a global study to develop a tool for nurses to identify patients at high risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression.

  • National Science Foundation logo.
    Three UB researchers receive NSF CAREER awards
    10/1/20

    From the science of taste to transistor technology to understanding plate tectonics and volcanoes, the funded projects will address issues of societal importance.

  • The edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
    Greenland on track to lose ice at historic rate
    10/1/20

    UB-led study finds the ice sheet is melting faster than in any century over the past 12,000 years.

  • pipette.
    $1.2 million awarded for drug research
    9/29/20

    Funding from the Center for Protein Therapeutics will support development of next-generation protein-based drugs that treat COVID-19, cancer and other illnesses.

  • Doctor reviewing mammography results on pc.
    Device aims to better screen patients for breast cancer
    9/29/20

    UB researchers have received an NIH grant to develop a device that uses light and ultrasound to improve the screening of patients with dense breast tissue.

  • Eye surgery, viewed from above.
    Researchers study glaucoma surgery techniques
    9/28/20

    Comparisons of surgeries have found that a less expensive method proves to be safer and more effective.

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