• Man sniffing a covid vaccine up his nose.
    Best COVID protection could be intranasal vaccine
    9/16/22

    A paper co-authored by a UB scientist explains why a vaccine delivered through the nose is key to ultimately controlling the pandemic.

  • Two scientists perched on a rock formation, examining notes.
    Impact of ancient climate change on Alaskan ecosystems
    9/14/22

    Researching the past could provide important insights into how climate change may impact ecosystems today.

  • Nirupam Aich in his lab.
    UB engineer looks at e-waste recycling in Bangladesh
    9/14/22

    Working with a team of scientists, Nirupam Aich studies pollution and health risks from disassembling discarded gadgets.

  • Graphic of a building with six windows, each one featuring a person doing a different task, like reading a book, working on a computer, scrolling on a phone.
    Novel tactics helped extroverts adapt during pandemic
    9/13/22

    A new UB study found that socializing strategies that allowed extroverts to be both social and distant helped them feel happier than introverts.

  • Researcher at Empire Genomics.
    UB CAT invests $253,000 in six life sciences companies
    9/13/22

    The companies are developing treatments for cancer, neurovascular diseases and more.

  • NSF Career Award winners, from left, Nirupam Aich, Danial Faghihi, Kenneth Joseph and Baishakhi Mazumder.
    Engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER awards
    9/8/22

    Their projects will tackle pressing societal concerns ranging from racial inequality in the U.S. to PFAS pollution, better semiconductors and energy conservation.

  • Concept of democracy featuring many people coming together to form the image of a ballot box.
    Democracy’s world of challenges
    9/7/22

    A new book by UB's James A. Gardner looks at the current thought on the state of the world’s democracies and the struggle to make self-governance work — one nation at a time.

  • Concept of tuberculosis research featuring small research figures studying a larg pair of lungs.
    Developing more effective TB vaccine
    9/6/22

    UB faculty member Jonathan Lovell has received funding from the NIH to design protein nanoparticle vaccines and test their efficacy.

  • Aerial view of Castellaraccio di Monteverdi, the medieval site investigated by the IMPERO Project.
    New insight into Etruscan life under Rome
    9/1/22

    The site of the excavation led by UB archaeologist Alessandro Sebastiani is one of the few untouched by looters.

  • A man working in a lab uses a pipette to place a sample into a vial.
    The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?
    8/30/22

    In mammals, proteins called mucins evolved — again and again — by co-opting non-mucin proteins in a surprising way, study suggests.

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