• Teacher holding a tablet in the front of a classroom.
    Rethinking role of technology in the classroom
    10/23/19

    Tablets and laptops have their educational virtues, but new UB research suggests they have limitations as well.

  • Smart Walls Construction founder and Chief Technology Officer Jorge Cueto discusses the lifting mechanism of his company’s smart walls prototype with UB engineering students Christopher Borders, Derek Roback and Albert Shaw.
    UB students propel young company
    10/22/19

    Three engineering students are transitioning an idea for flood protection into reality for startup Smart Walls Construction.

  • Close-up of man cutting a piece of meat.
    A secret in our saliva
    10/18/19

    Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans evolve into unique members of the great apes, new UB research suggests.

  • John Violanti.
    UB receives DOJ funding for police health study
    10/18/19

    The project, led by epidemiologist John Violanti, will look at the physical health effects of police officers’ atypical work hours.

  • Undergraduate students learn CRISPR gene editing in the Biology lab of Nitasha Sehgal in Hochstetter Hall.
    Sense of ‘belonging’ key to retention of women in STEM
    10/17/19

    GSE professor Tiffany Karalis Noel also says good women mentors are instrumental in fostering that sense of belonging.

  • Scientist working at the laboratory.
    Supporting drug discovery and development
    10/16/19

    Empire Discovery Institute aims to convert scientific breakthroughs into viable pharmaceuticals for commercialization.

  • UB postdoctoral researcher Romina Cejas, UB professor of pharmaceutical sciences Javier G. Blanco, and UB graduate student Kenneth Anderson.
    Cardiotoxicity in children with Down syndrome focus of study
    10/15/19

    Pharmacy professor Javier Blanco has received a $438,000 grant to explore the role genetics play in heart damage from chemotherapy.

  • UB physics PhD students Taranpreet Kaur and Ibraheem Alshareedah prepare a microfluidic flow chamber for experiments.
    How can liquid organelles coexist without merging?
    10/14/19

    UB physicists use model systems to explore the forces that may be at play in this intriguing phenomenon inside human cells.

  • woman at table with drug paraphernalia.
    How drug abstinence makes relapse more likely
    10/11/19

    UB researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism responsible for cocaine craving during abstinence.

  • A worker opening a drawer of specimens in the biorepository.
    UB Biorepository advances power of precision medicine
    10/11/19

    The facility will enhance targeted research on diseases common to the region, such as MS and stroke.

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