• 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.

  • 3-D rendering of human kidneys.
    Unraveling racial disparity in kidney transplant success
    10/29/18

    A $3.5 federal million grant will fund UB research that could advance development of personalized medicine for high-risk patients.  

  • NASA Logo.
    Manufacturing innovation cited
    10/24/18

    The work by UB’s Shenqiang Ren and Chi Zhou earned a spot among the top 25 semifinalists in the third cycle of the NASA iTech competition.

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