• 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.

  • Business people gathered for a meeting around a table; a woman talks with an easel behind her featuring a drawing and the words "core values.".
    Moral leaders perform better
    10/24/18

    But what’s “moral” is up for debate, according to results of a study led by School of Management researcher Jim Lemoine.

  • Illustration of a city and farm, with shining sun.
    It’s time to reflect on efforts in food systems planning
    10/22/18

    A special issue of a peer-reviewed journal outlines the new frontiers in, and challenges to, the governance of food systems.

  • hands manipulating a smartphone.
    Vulnerabilities exposed in terahertz data links
    10/19/18

    A new study finds that terahertz data links aren’t as immune to eavesdropping as many have assumed.

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