• Conceptual image of social media, with man holding a phone circled by media icons.
    Fighting online disinformation
    7/6/22

    UB's new Center for Information Integrity will build multidisciplinary research teams and develop digital literacy tools and new teaching techniques.

  • Three women playing a game of pool.
    Protecting against unwanted sexual experiences
    7/5/22

    A new UB tudy looks at how friends can work together to help protect against unwanted sexual experiences in the first year of college.

  • A gloved hand reaching towards several test tubes.
    Medicine in wastewater early warning of COVID?
    6/30/22

    Research finds that a large spike in acetaminophen preceded a spike in viral RNA during one COVID-19 wave in WNY.

  • Man dressed as Sherlock Holmes sits in a rocking chair reading a book.
    Igniting spark of creativity at work
    6/30/22

    New research investigates how co-workers can inspire each other, like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  • Gynecological chair in gynecological exam room.
    Donating to aid abortions is First Amendment right
    6/30/22

    Law professor Lucinda Finley says donating to funds — even where helping women get abortions is illegal — is protected by Supreme Court precedents.

  • Zoom image: A note written on “Alternative Rule” paper about preventing gun violence.
    Advocating for gun reform with ‘Alternative Rule’
    6/29/22

    UB art professor Matt Kenyon makes his unique paper available for writing letters to elected officials for gun control.

  • From left: UB researchers heading to Greenland this year include PhD students Karlee Prince and Caleb Walcott, and master’s student Liza Wilson. Walcott is going as part of the GreenDrill team, and Prince and Wilson for another research project. All are members of Jason Briner’s lab in the Department of Geology.
    Resuming fieldwork in Greenland after pandemic delays
    6/27/22

    Geologist Jason Briner co-leads GreenDrill, a project to collect bedrock samples from Greenland.

  • Gloved hand holding a petri dish with bacteria.
    Scientists to tackle ‘hypermutations’ in deadly bacteria
    6/23/22

    UB has received $4 million from NIAID to develop new treatments that block “hypermutated” strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

  • Nicole Wong.
    Using proteins to change how neurons communicate
    6/22/22

    In a new study, scientists detail how they coaxed excitatory neurons to release neurotransmitters usually produced by inhibitory neurons.

  • Person wearing a lab coat, shirt, tie and face mask, mixing colorful chemicals in a lab.
    Improving quality of HIV research globally
    6/22/22

    UB has received nearly $13 million from the NIH to lead a clinical pharmacology quality assurance program for sites conducting HIV and infectious disease research.

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