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Profiles

  • Cookbook for environmental health
    10/20/26

    Fulbright Scholar from Slovakia, now working in SPHHP, has devoted her career to improving the environment in which people live.

  • For this UB anthropologist, research is personal
    8/31/26

    Gil-García’s research explores how border policies, forced migration and family separation influence health, identity and the lived experiences of Indigenous migrants.

  • No plans to retire for UB’s longest-serving faculty couple
    5/15/26

    Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian are still going strong, their shared legacy reaching across classrooms, scholarship and Buffalo’s cultural life.

  • Examining evolving relationship between tech, democracy
    5/12/26

    Yini Zhang uses social media and AI tools to help answer pressing questions and uncover themes in our turbulant political landscape.

  • Addressing health equity goal of new CHERI director
    11/21/25

    Heather M. Gardiner aims to expand the Community Health Equity Research Institute's research impact and strengthen links with the community.

The View

Faculty experts weigh in on trending topics. Their views and opinions are based on their expertise and research, and do not represent the official positions of UB.

  • Parents’ rights laws and teen healthcare
    10/19/26

    SPHHP researcher’s JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint article examines how a growing movement is reshaping adolescent health policy.

  • Music professor remembers Dolly Parton
    9/1/26

    Stephanie Vander Wel writes in The Conversation that few female country artists wielded humor as deftly as Parton did.

  • What to know about Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’
    8/4/26

    The film is a “fresh and plausible interpretation of the ancient myth,” says expert on ancient Greek literature.

  • Abortion ads and free speech
    7/30/26

    Law professor writes in The Conversation that South Dakota's law banning ads about abortion pills violates free speech.

  • Grants aim to improve East Side health equity
    7/28/26

    Funding came from a major federal grant awarded to UB’s Community Health Equity Research Institute.

Questions & Answers

Awards & Recognition

  • UB honors exceptional scholarly achievement
    11/5/26

    Faculty excellence in scholarship can be seen in a substantial body of work developed over time and in exceptional contributions early in a career. 

  • UB honors excellence in teaching and learning
    11/4/26

    Nine UB faculty will be celebrated on Thursday for their contributions to teaching, instructional innovation and mentorship at UB’s inaugural Faculty Recognition Reception.

  • UB communicators shine at PRSA Excalibur Awards
    10/21/26

    Teams from the schools of Architecture and Planning, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Management and Social Work brought home awards.

  • UB chemist named to analytical science ‘40 Under 40’
    10/14/26

    Emanuela Gionfriddo’s work improving measurements of pollutants was recognized by The Analytical Scientist’s 2026 Power List.

  • UB ice sheet expert elected AGU fellow
    9/29/26

    SUNY Empire Innovation Professor Sophie Nowicki is an internationally known ice sheet scientist and climate modeler.