• Senior man grips his shoulder with a pained expression.
    Prescription opioid use most likely in poorest older adults
    9/17/18

    The UB study also raises important questions about access to pain-management options.

  • Female scientist, wearing breast cancer awareness ribbon, looks into a microscope.
    Freudenheim receives funding
    9/14/18

    The $359,000 grant from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Get Screened, No Excuses” initiative will support research on the role of the microbiome in breast cancer.  

  • Photo of a woman in a pharmacy selecting a product off the shelf.
    Stock market returns and so do ad budgets
    9/11/18

    Drug makers tend to increase their ad budgets when stock market returns are higher than expected, new UB research shows.

  • Red blood cells moving in blood vessels with depth of field.
    Addressing shortage of specialists
    9/10/18

    Funding from the Hemophilia Center of WNY will help the Jacobs School address a shortage of physicians to treat non-malignant blood disorders.

  • Photo illustration: Physicists Avto Kharchilava, Ia Iashvili and Salvatore Rappoccio appear to be standing in Large Hadron Collider.
    Physicists study inner workings of universe
    9/7/18

    Receipt of a $1.45M NSF grant comes as the field marks its latest big discovery: the observation of the Higgs boson’s most common mode of decay.

  • Caregivers turning a patient to prevent a bedsore.
    Bedsores tied to poorer inpatient rehab outcomes
    9/6/18

    The frst-of-its-kind study shows the federally mandated pressure ulcer quality indicator is a valuable measure of care.

  • rear view of three older women walking down a leaf-strewn path in autumn.
    Walk more to reduce heart failure risk
    9/6/18

    A study by UB researcher Michael LaMonte is first to show an association between increased physical activity and lower risk of two subtypes of heart failure in older women.

     

  • 3D rendering of a political imbalance concept.
    Big House gains for Dems predicted
    9/5/18

    Faculty member James Campbell's forecasting model sees Democrats picking up 44 House seats in the mid-term elections while the GOP adds 2 in the Senate.

  • illustration of information security.
    Grant to fund cybersecurity training
    9/5/18

    UB has received a $2.39 million NSF grant to train the next generation of experts who will protect the U.S. from cyberattacks.

  • Illustrated concept of innovation, coming up with an idea.
    Thinking like an entrepreneur
    9/4/18

    The SUNY ZAP! program helps scientists and engineers like UB’s Natesh Parashurama move their research from the lab to the marketplace.

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