• 1978 shaded relief ice bottom reconstruction, showing the buoyancy-inferred bottom depth for floating ice, and bedrock elevation elsewhere. Also shows the location of a bedrock canyon (white arrow). (e, f) Similar reconstructions for 2017 and 2020.
    Greenland glacier may not be as stable as previously thought
    8/8/23

    UB research finds that glacier N79 has undetected features that may indicate it is less stable than scientists have understood.

  • Despina Stratigakos (left) and Kelly Hayes-McAlonie pictured in 2011 with the Architect Barbie doll they developed with Mattel.
    ‘A powerful pink bomb’
    8/7/23

    Kelly Hayes McAlonie and Despina Stratigakos, co-creators of Architect Barbie, explain the impact of the movie that's become one of the most talked about films of the summer.

  • Man playing guitar.
    Music can help people learn a second language
    8/2/23

    A UB study found that people with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal — are better at imitating pitch than someone without that training.

  • Zoom image: Martin Harris, a PhD student in the lab of UB geology professor Stephan Kolzenburg, with a field rheometer prototype to measure flow properties of lava at Litli-hrútur in Iceland. Photo courtesy of Martin Harris and Jason Travis Parsons, University at Buffalo, and Oryaëlle Chevrel of the Université Clermont Auvergne.
    UB volcano expert monitors lava flow around the world
    7/31/23

    Stephan Kolzenburg’s field and lab research aims to predict where and how far lava will flow if a volcano erupts.

  • Man ponders post-it notes stuck on a glass wall.
    Didn’t finish your daily to-do list at work? Don’t dwell on it
    7/31/23

    A new School of Management study finds an employee’s downtime mindset impacts their day-to-day productivity.

  • Jong Han at the blackboard.
    ‘Quantum avalanche’ explains how nonconductors turn into conductors
    7/27/23

    A new UB-led study solves the mystery of insulator-to-metal transition.

  • Infant being wrapped in a blanket while lying in a hospital bassinet.
    Buffalo clinic is detecting — and treating — hepatitis C virus in infants
    7/27/23

    The UB-led effort is a possible model for the nation that mitigates a significant health disparity.

  • Peter Bush, Mary Bush and Raymond Miller.
    Bitemark evidence can send wrong person to prison, death row
    7/26/23

    UB forensic dentist Mary Bush and colleagues have published a commentary outlining problems with bitemark analysis.

  • Zoom image: A new study that analyzes ancient soil once stored at UB is causing a worrisome rethinking of the history of Greenland’s ice sheet and reveals its fragile nature today.
    Ancient soil once stored at UB shows Greenland melted
    7/25/23

    A new study finds the island was mostly ice free only 416,000 years ago and is more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

  • Two women talking across a desk.
    Servant leaders are better for the bottom line
    7/25/23

    A new UB-led study reveals a connection to financial success.

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