• A diverse audience sitting in a meeting.
    Providing stronger diversity training
    2/16/17

    Training can effectively build awareness of cultural differences, but results vary based on content and length of initiatives, a UB study has found.

  • photo taken from a video showing a catheter placed inside a blood vessel delivering a flow diverter across the opening of an aneurysm.
    Study examines aneurysm treatment
    2/15/17

    UB engineers have found that one compressed stent sometimes is more effective than two overlapping stents when treating brain aneurysms.

  • Screenshot of the Bestest app.
    App makes it easy to conduct surveys
    2/13/17

    UB is the first testing ground for Bestest, which allows users to instantly poll any of their contacts, or even larger groups.

  • Immigration stamp.
    No link between immigration, crime
    2/13/17

    A UB-led study also found that immigration actually appears to be linked to reductions in some types of crimes.

  • Man experiencing shoulder pain.
    Poor, less educated suffer most from chronic pain
    2/9/17

    Pain is a widespread, legitimate problem that must be remembered amid opioid concerns, UB researcher Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk says

  • Closeup of a young man with beard smoking an e-cigarette.
    FDA campaign may be doing more harm
    2/9/17

    The “Smokeless Doesn’t Mean Harmless” campaign fails to offer adequate information on the risks of smokeless vs. traditional cigarettes, UB's Lynn Kozlowski says.

  • UB police car.
    High stress dysregulates biological function
    2/8/17

    A study of Buffalo police officers suggests that high-stress situations can disturb officers' awakening cortisol pattern, leaving them vulnerable to disease.

  • Photoillustration of the concept of saving featuring a piggybank wearing glasses and a chalkboard with the words "spend, spend, spend" crossed out and "save" written below.
    Believe in the American dream?
    2/8/17

    You're less likely to impulse buy, according to results of a new study from the School of Management.

  • Downtown Jakarta, Indonesia, during the floods of 2007.
    RENEW awards seed grants
    2/7/17

    With the funding, researchers will tackle four projects related to energy, the environment and water sustainability.

  • A close-up of the pitchers of Cephalotus follicularis, the Australian pitcher plant.
    Study sheds light on carnivorous plants
    2/7/17

    Scientists, including UB biologist Victor Albert, say that for a plant, the evolutionary pathway to acquiring a taste for meat may be limited.

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