• Emboss Tower.
    Golf balls inspire skyscraper skin
    3/24/17

    UB architect Jin Young Song’s Emboss Tower design was a finalist in an international competition focused on more sustainable skyscrapers.

  • graphic with three heads and 3 thought bubbles, one with bacteria, one with a microscope and one with a DNA helix.
    GEM awards funding for new studies
    3/24/17

    More than $110,000 in funding will support pilot studies on a superbug, psoriasis and eczema, and three deadly fungi.

  • Scene from the ArcheAge medieval fantasy game.
    Calm reigns as world ends, game suggests
    3/23/17

    The UB-led study is based on the virtual actions of more than 80,000 players of the role-playing video game ArcheAge.

  • Pharmacist pictured speaking on the phone while looking at a computer monitor.
    Expanding role in patient transitions
    3/21/17

    A UB study aims to evaluate the role of pharmacists in patients' transition from hospital to home.

  • Closeup of a hospital alarm; in the background are the patient in bed, family member by her side and doctor standing with clipboard.
    Easing hospital ‘alarm fatigue’
    3/20/17

    A UB team is developing a tool that uses MP3 principles to alleviate the problem of multiple alarms blending together and failing to alert caregivers to emergencies.

  • An illustration of the different ways in which proteins vibrate.
    When proteins court, dance moves matter
    3/20/17

    Foxtrot or tango? On the biological dance floor, careful choreography may decide how well a suitor is able to woo a partner.

  • A neuron that began as a neural crest stem cell.
    Stem cells without genetic modification
    3/17/17

    A UB study yields neural crest cells from adult skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s and other brain illnesses.

  • arctic landscape.
    UB hosts meeting on climate change
    3/17/17

    Talks on glacial ice and global warming at the 47th annual International Arctic Workshop are open to the public.

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    NYSTAR extends WNY Incubator Network
    3/16/17

    Funding and tax incentives are extended to WIN's partner incubator companies until 2021.

  • Surgeons in the operating room gathered over a patient.
    Fighting bad posture of surgeons in OR
    3/16/17

    An assessment tool under development by a UB team could reduce chronic pain, prevent economic losses and improve surgical outcomes.

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