• A retail employee turns a sign that reads "open" in store window.
    Focus now on community reopening
    6/5/20

    With the first wave of COVID-19 cases subsiding, UB informatics experts have turned their attention to the effects of reopening the local economy.

  • Anne Curtis.
    Disparities in treatment for high-risk cardiac patients
    6/3/20

    A clinical trial led by UB cardiologist Anne Curtis found race and sex disparities in the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

  • Andreas Daum pictured in front of Pico del Teide volcano on the Atlantic island on Tenerife this January 2020.
    Daum says COVID-19 lessons found in Humboldt’s work
    6/3/20

    The UB historian has highlighted the 19th-century scientist’s take on pandemics around 1800 ─ and what we can learn from it today ─ in an essay for a leading German newspaper.

  • Close-up of a person smoking marijuana.
    Public health can do better on cannabis harm reduction
    6/2/20

    A survey of Hash Bash attendees shows that frequent cannabis users aren’t as knowledgeable as they should be about harm reduction strategies.

  • A modern electric locomotive.
    Transistor handles more than 8,000 volts
    6/2/20

    A gallium oxide-based transistor under development at UB could help improve distances that electric cars and locomotives can travel.

  • A self-assembling molecular trap.
    Tiny, self-assembling traps capture PFAS
    6/1/20

    Future research could explore whether the molecular traps can be used to remediate water and improve detection of these toxic chemicals.

  • Laura Smith.
    Gates Foundation awards funding to UB epidemiologist
    5/28/20

    Laura Smith will develop a decision-making tool that can plan more effective health campaigns in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Adult son with his arm around his elderly mother, gives her a kiss on the head.
    Nursing professor secures NIH grant with first proposal
    5/27/20

    Suzanne Sullivan will use the funding to develop approaches to prepare Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers to make end-of-life decisions.

  • Portrait of Chemistry Professor, Janet Morrow and Bradford La Salle of startup company Ferric Contrast in the Natural Sciences Complex.
    UB spinoff Ferric Contrast wins federal R&D funding
    5/21/20

    The company, co-founded by UB chemist Janet Morrow, is developing iron-based contrast agents for MRI.

  • The Los Angeles skyline barely visible through thick smog.
    Engineer receives grant to study air pollution impact
    5/21/20

    Kang Sun has been awarded a $100,000 NASA grant to study air pollution in three regions of the world as it relates to COVID-19.

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