• Elizabeth K. Thomas, assistant professor of geology and geology master’s student Megan Corcoran collects lake effect snow samples from the roof of Cooke Hall.
    Probing history of lake effect snow
    1/22/18

    Work by UB geologist Elizabeth Thomas will lay the foundation for understanding how lake effect snowfall could change in a warming world.

  • cytocybernetics co-founders Randall Rasmusson and Glenna Bett.
    Cytocybernetics receives NIH award
    1/18/18

    The UB startup will use the $1.5M in Phase II STTR funding to advance technology to test how new drugs affect the heart’s electrical activity.

  • A single snowflake.
    Snowflake chemistry
    1/16/18

    UB chemist Jason Benedict shares his insights on these winter wonders.

  • A hospital being constructed in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a ductile moment resisting steel frame on top of base isolators.
    City shifts from concrete to steel in post-quake rebuild
    1/12/18

    The switch in Christchurch, New Zealand, may help minimize damage to buildings and enhance the city’s resilience in future quakes.

  • Plate piled with chocolate chip pancakes and bacon, with a cup of coffee nearby.
    How do we taste sugar, bacon, coffee?
    1/10/18

    UB researchers have identified a new chemical pathway that helps the brain detect sweet, savory and bitter flavors.

  • Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul holds her hands up demonstrating driverless car technology.
    Driverless vehicles making inroads
    1/8/18

    UB received a shoutout in the State of the State address for the key role it is playing in the advancement of autonomous vehicles.

  • Adnan Siddiqui.
    New view for stroke treatment
    1/5/18

    UB researchers have found that in many cases of large vessel occlusion, the use of a stent retriever may not always be necessary.

  • damaged gorgonian coral.
    Early look at damage to coral reefs
    1/4/18

    Scientists from UB and Cal State Northridge found coral reefs off St. John suffered severe damage from hurricanes Irma and Maria.

  • team walter moore huddles around a prototype in the architecture school's fabrication lab.
    Tackling climate crisis with terra cotta
    1/4/18

    A workshop co-organized by UB brought academia and industry to Buffalo to prototype environmentally responsive façades.

  • Illustration with the head and shoulders of an ancient human figure silhouetted against a background of swirled colors.
    UB researchers changed the world
    1/3/18

    From developing a pneumonia vaccine to desalinating water with the sun, here are some highlights from a year of discovery.

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