• Pile of colorful pills and capsules.
    Identifying patients at risk for opioid use
    11/7/18

    UB's Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions will work with OASAS to assess what risks may occur for people with alcohol use disorder who use prescription painkillers.

  • Diabetes mellitus concept vector illustration. — Stock Vector Doctor with magnifier and blood glucose testing meter. Diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes and insulin production concept on white background.
    JDRF award continues diabetes drug research
    11/6/18

    The major interventional study being launched by UB scientists could help bring drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes closer to FDA approval for Type 1.

  • pill counter filled with pills.
    Shedding light on women's shift to heroin
    11/6/18

    The study is part of a concerted strategy to improve substance use disorder outcomes and decrease HIV infections.

  • Man examining a full-mouth X-ray.
    NIH awards $6.6M to UB oral biologists
    11/6/18

    The grants will fund work to study periodontal disease, Sjögren’s syndrome and bone loss.

  • Still from the Makerspace video featuring a robot created at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library's Launch Pad.
    Studying learning in ‘makerspaces’
    11/5/18

    UB researcher Sam Abramovich has secured a grant to study how patrons learn in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s Launch Pad space.

  • Microphone in a broadcast studio.
    Podcasts primed for STEM education
    11/1/18

    UB education researcher Sameer Honward is using podcasts to align with  Native Americans' traditional way of gathering knowledge through oral traditions.

  • Illustration of residential streetscape with a city in the background.
    Perceptions of cities, suburbs more than boundary lines
    11/1/18

    Social factors also play a critical role in how people describe their communities, according to research by UB sociologist Shelley Kimelberg.

  • spyglass highlights Manganese on the periodic table.
    Manganese may solve hydrogen fuel cells’ catalyst issue
    10/31/18

    A UB-led research team reports the widely available and inexpensive metal could lead to a renewable energy boom.
     

  • Man with cane walks in crosswalk.
    Grant will help improve transit access
    10/31/18

    A five-year, $4.6 million federal grant to UB and Carnegie Mellon supports continued accessibility research.

  • UB geologist Elizabeth Thomas holds a sediment core — a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud.
    Why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic
    10/30/18

    UB research suggests that 8,000 years ago, two climatic processes may have caused western Greenland to become more humid.

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