• Teen boy sitting on a couch talking to a social worker.
    Improving AI fairness in foster care
    2/4/20

    UB researchers will use a $800,000 NSF/Amazon grant to develop a computational approach for delivering preventive services.

  • Adam Rome stands in front of a projection of the Earth.
    Lessons from the first Earth Day
    1/31/20

    As Earth Day turns 50, the event provides lessons for climate activists today, UB environmental historian Adam Rome says.

  • pill bottle full of marijuana buds lays sideways on a prescription pad.
    Smoke two of these and call me in the morning?
    1/31/20

    Not quite, says a new study that highlights the discrepancy between cannabis enthusiasts’ beliefs about the medicinal and health uses of marijuana and the empirical evidence.

  • Man in business suit throws his hands up in frustration as he looks at a computer screen.
    Complicated writing can signal hedge fund dishonesty
    1/28/20

    Convoluted writing in an investment strategy could indicate a hedge fund manager has something to hide, UB finance professor Cristian Tiu says.

  • John Richard.
    UB chemist awarded $2 million NIH grant
    1/27/20

    The Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will support work by John Richard to study the molecular interactions that enable enzymes to speed chemical reactions.

  • Two images of protein structures.
    New X-ray method breakthrough for drug development
    1/24/20

    The new method unambiguously identifies and counts metal atoms in proteins in an efficient and routine way, revealing new data that was there, but previously hidden.

  • researcher working in a simulated environment.
    Using video games to advance robot swarms
    1/24/20

    UB researchers believe gamers’ brain waves and eye movements could help improve artificial intelligence for autonomous robots.

  • Older woman painting on a canvas.
    Getting older adults moving and creating
    1/24/20

    UB researcher Nikhil Satchidanand will use a Health Foundation grant to develop and test the impact of an art and exercise program on seniors’ cognition and motor function.

  • A chart showing results of lab tests on blood lipids.
    Link found between blood fats, artery size in MS patients
    1/22/20

    The UB-led study ties hyperlipidemia to problems with blood vessels outside the skull.

  • Diabetic child having a blood sample taken with lancet pen.
    Buffalo clinical trial contributes to drug approval
    1/21/20

    The Buffalo trial was one of 150 trials in 17 countries that tested a fast-acting insulin for children.

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