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  • Residents protesting AMA's demolishing exercise. Photo Credit: Innocent Owusu, Graphic Online, August 17, 2018.
    Analyzing land tenure in Ghana
    7/1/19

    The dual legal land systems in the African country lead to exploitation of the poor, according to a paper co-authored by UB urban planner Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah.

  • headshot of B. Rita Alevriadou.
    Cardiovascular bioengineering expert joins UB
    7/1/19

    Renowned scholar Rita Alevriadou has joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor.

  • A student looks at a book in Lockwood Library.
    Goodbye fines for overdue library books
    7/2/19

    A new system being implemented by the UB Libraries will bring an end to most overdue fines, as well as quadruple loan periods.

  • William Regan welcomes attendees to the Veteran's Day Flag Raising at Alumni Arena in 2015.
    Regan brings UB career to a close
    7/1/19

    The director of university events has had a front-row seat for events that have helped define the university for nearly 40 years.

  • Kathy Twist.
    UB Athletics’ Twist announces retirement
    7/3/19

    A mainstay at UB for 23 years, Twist has made an impact on hundreds of student-athletes, first as a coach and most recently as an administrator.

  • Students with the UB chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) practice building their steel bridge in the Stevens Courtyard between Davis and Jarvis halls.
    UB steel bridge team leaves a legacy
    7/5/19

    UB’s student club team earned fourth place overall at the national competition, and received second-place honors for construction speed.

  • Green vial being placed into colorful rack in a research lab.
    National network addresses clinical research roadblocks
    7/5/19

    The Trial Innovation Network is designed to pave the way for investigators to perform multi-site studies in more efficient and cost-effective ways.

  • Jin Young Song stands under an arch constructed from SIMS prototypes, assembled in the corridor of Hayes Hall.
    Steel assembly proposal wins Forge Prize
    7/8/19

    The prototype by faculty member Jin Young Song features a structural module with a unique interlocked configuration that is easily assembled by a single worker.

  • Rendering of a new administrative building for the CPNCK coffee cooperative.
    Coffee as a pathway to peace
    7/8/19

    In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, peace and economic opportunity are percolating, thanks to UB efforts to develop a more inclusive coffee value chain.

  • Promotional graphic featuring and old fashioned schoolhouse and the words, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.".
    Theatre and Dance announces 2019-20 season
    7/8/19

    Productions range from Broadway musicals, plays and dance, and feature nationally recognized directors and choreographers.

  • Ferry Street neighborhood.
    Grant aims to improve health of East Side residents
    7/9/19

    The $790,000 REACH grant will be used to reduce smoking and improve nutrition and health care access for African Americans living along Ferry Street.

  • View looking from the audience's perspective into the stage and performers at a tailgate concert. A young girl sits on the shoulders of a man.
    Tailgate concerts back for UB football
    7/9/19

    The Tailgate Concert Series at UB home football games will be back this fall with an eclectic program that includes rock, pop and country performers.

  • MRI images of MS patients and healthy controls that show that patients who had more than 8 scans using gadolinium-based contrast agents have areas of hyperintensity (brighter regions, white arrows) on the scans, indicating gadolinium deposition, compared to the scans of MS patients who had less than 8 scans and healthy controls.
    Gadolinium deposition occurs in early MS
    7/10/19

    A study found that while the commonly used imaging linear contrast agent does accumulate in the brain, there is no discernible clinical impact.

  • Detail from Romanell Conference poster showing keynoter John Martin Fischer "rising" from the dead.
    Arguing against the afterlife
    7/10/19

    Philosopher John Martin Fischer will explain away the alleged out-of-body experiences of those near death as the keynote speaker at UB’s annual Romanell Conference.

  • Closed fist clutching three cigarettes.
    Investigating potential smoking cessation therapy
    7/11/19

    UB faculty member Jun-Xu Li has received a $2M NIH grant to look at a receptor that has recently emerged as a novel target for treating drug addiction.

  • Swimmers at the municipal swimming pool in Washington, D.C., in 1942.
    Forgotten history of segregated pools and parks
    7/11/19

    Municipal swimming pools and urban amusement parks flourished in the 20th century. But often their success was based on excluding African Americans, UB’s Victoria Wolcott says.

  • Patient undergoing oral laser light therapy.
    Research coalition endorses light therapy
    7/11/19

    The new guidelines could offer an alternative to opioids to treat oral mucositis, the painful side effect of head and neck cancer treatment.

  • A female student looks at a dental model with a male instructor.
    Increasing number of Native American dentists
    7/12/19

    Finding a Native American dentist is rare. A new program at the School of Dental Medicine aims to change that.

  • Illustrated hands cradling a light bulb.
    Exceptional faculty
    7/12/19

    Twelve UB faculty members have been named recipients of the university’s 2019 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation Awards.

  • Several medical students in blue scrubs wearing VR goggles.
    New insight on the human body
    7/12/19

    Working with Crosswater Digital Media, UB instructors use virtual reality to innovate the teaching of gross anatomy.

  • Man with face in his hands, clouds of smoke behind him.
    ‘Near miss’ linked to post-traumatic stress
    7/15/19

    A study of survivors’ near-miss experiences on 9/11 contributes to an understanding of what counts as exposure trauma.

  • Aerial view of Beijing on a smoggy day.
    Air pollution linked to cardiovascular disease in China
    7/15/19

    The findings suggest that the country may need to re-evaluate its standards for nitrogen dioxide.

  • Irish Ambassador Daniel Mulhall takes a photo with a cellphone of a portrait of James Joyce in UB's Special Collections.
    Viewing Joyce collection fulfills dream
    7/12/19

    Daniel Mulhall, Ireland's ambassador to the U.S., pays a visit to UB’s internationally known James Joyce Collection.

  • Nathan Daun-Barnett (second from left), and students from the Graduate School of Education and Bennett High School talk about the FAFSA during a session in 2013 at Bennett.
    UB partner in Gates foundation grant
    7/16/19

    UB will share in a $2.9M grant awarded to Say Yes Buffalo to increase college completion rates for Buffalo Public Schools graduates.

  • View of a Large Hadron Collider tunnel. ©CERN.
    Particle accelerator scientists meet in Buffalo
    7/17/19

    UB’s physics department is hosting a conference this week for researchers working with the Large Hadron Collider.

  • Shermain Aponte (fourth from left), a University of Puerto Rico at Cayey student, is a participant in UB’s CHEM 360° summer research program. UB chemists supporting her include (from left to right, excluding Aponte): professor Diana Aga, Aponte’s faculty research mentor; faculty members Timothy Cook and Jason Benedict, the program’s organizers; professor Luis Colón, who helped recruit Aponte to the program; and PhD student Grace Guardian, a research mentor.
    Becoming a well-rounded scientist
    7/18/19

    The Department of Chemistry’s CHEM 360° initiative offers undergrads a summer of lab work, as well as instruction on ethics and social media.

  • The gene FGFR1 in its natural state and the gene when exposed to laser light, which causes the gene to activate and deactivate.
    Scientists wirelessly hack ‘boss’ gene
    7/19/19

    The advancement, made possible by tiny photonic implants, could lead to new treatments for cancer and mental disorders like schizophrenia.

  • Jessica Kruger.
    SUNY honors SPHHP’s Kruger for teaching innovations
    7/18/19

    SUNY FACT2 Excellence in Instruction Award is one of several honors Kruger has received over the past year.

  • Dna genomes sequencing.
    Personalized approach for Alzheimer's
    7/22/19

    UB researchers’ insights into a target that succeeded in animals but failed in humans reveal a new paradigm for screening Alzheimer’s drugs.

  • Astronaut and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin is pictured during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the moon.
    Why the moon still matters
    7/19/19

    On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, UB planetary geologist Tracy Gregg discusses its significance and what we learned.

  • UB engineering professor Joseph Mollendorf in his Jarvis Hall office.
    Mollendorf on the moon
    7/19/19

    Engineering professor had a pretty cool job in 1966: working at Bell Aerospace on components for the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the moon.

  • Gloved hand removes a vial of saliva from a box of many vials.
    Bringing local dental products to market
    7/23/19

    UB’s Center for Dental Studies has completed more than $15 million in product research for companies that range from startups to conglomerates.

  • Man dressed in camo and a civilian in a suit shaking hands in front of an American flag.
    Law school creates ‘veterans presence’
    7/23/19

    Targeting the “underserved” needs of veterans, the School of Law has launched a series of programs and courses to address veterans’ legal concerns.

  • Nathan Daun-Barnett and Joanna Saintil pictured outside in front of brightly colored abstract mural.
    The crossroads moment for Joanna Saintil
    7/24/19

    The GSE student — who was fired, then mentored by faculty member Nathan Daun-Barnett — is another UB success story.

  • Test tubes holding varying amounts of liquid.
    CSTEP program offers research opportunities
    7/23/19

    UB undergraduate STEM students spent their summer gaining an invaluable learning experience.

  • Long table filled with fruits and vegetables.
    Veggie Van study awards funding
    7/24/19

    Nine partners — including two in Buffalo — will either start or expand a mobile produce market as part of a UB research project.

  • Senior woman using her mobile phone.
    Better mobile design needed for seniors
    7/25/19

    UB faculty member Edward Steinfeld says adapting key principles of universal design would make mobile technology work better for everyone.

  • Blair Johnson.
    Johnson receives White House award
    7/25/19

    The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recognizes young scientists for their contributions to STEM fields.

  • A frustrated- or disappointed-looking woman eating a healthy meal including broccoli in a kitchen setting.
    Give broccoli a chance
    7/26/19

    UB research shows how the taste of bitter foods changes as repeated consumption alters the constellation of salivary proteins.

  • University at Buffalo logo.
    Autschbach named UB Distinguished Professor
    7/26/19

    The designation recognizes full professors who have achieved true distinction and are leaders in their fields.

  • Buffalo MATTERS brochures fanned out on a table.
    Opioid treatment program developed at UB goes statewide
    7/24/19

    Buffalo MATTERS is believed to be one of several factors contributing to the decline in opioid-related deaths in Erie County.

  • Sanjay Sethi and Tim Murphy.
    New approach to treating COPD
    7/30/19

    UB researchers have received an NIH grant to develop a method to selectively ‘disarm’ specific pathogens.

  • The late Milton Plesur at his desk, bookcase in the rear.
    Three receive Plesur awards for teaching
    7/29/19

    Alex Ampadu, Jessica Kruger and Mark R. Marino are recipients of the SA award named in honor of the late, beloved UB history professor.

  • Karthik Dantu talks with a student in the lab.
    National awards highlight strength of UB’s investigators
    7/31/19

    Early-career faculty have received a record 11 National Science Foundation CAREER awards in 2019, along with a U.S. presidential early career award.

  • David Lacy speaks with chemistry PhD student Paul Fanara in the lab.
    UB chemist receives NSF CAREER award
    7/29/19

    David Lacy’s lab is developing cheaper, more sustainable alternatives to ruthenium-based compounds used in industrial reactions.

  • Joshua B. Sticht, deputy chief, University Police, gives direction to a group of emergency responders gathered at Washington and High streets.
    Emergency exercise brings rapid response
    7/26/19

    The exercise at the Jacobs School and at Roswell Park showed UB's ability to operate successfully with other emergency response agencies.

  • Woman with eyes closed sniffs a glass or red wine.
    Compound in red wine may lead to new anxiety treatments
    7/30/19

    A UB-led study found that resveratrol, found in grape skin, shuts down a depression-causing enzyme in brain.

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