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  • Zoom image: UB researcher Gang Wu (center front) with students inside his Furnas Hall laboratory. Photo: Douglas Levere
    UB scientist awarded $3M as part of DOE’s Hydrogen Shot
    7/5/23

    The project led by engineering professor Gang Wu will focus on creating efficient, cheap and durable catalysts for hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks.

  • Joseph Stefko and family.
    True Blue through and through
    7/10/23

    In a Q&A with UBNow, new UBAA President Joseph V. Stefko talks about his role and how alumni can remain part of the UB community.

  • Buffalo EOC logo.
    UB’s EOC salutes alumni’s paths to success
    7/6/23

    Kareema Washington and Dale Martin were recognized at the Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center's recent commencement.

  • Philip Glick pictured in JSMBS setting.
    New perspectives on health care
    7/6/23

    UB's MD/MBA program offers medical students looking to enhance their clinical training with the management education needed to become health care leaders.

  • Mirna Cadet pictured in the children's reading nook her team created for the City Mission Women's shelter.
    Class project improving life at Buffalo City Mission
    7/10/23

    With a course objective to improve the world around them, Team Traffic Cones has created reading spaces for women and children at the facility.

  • Brent Murchie and son, Klajdi Mulla, Satish K. Tripathi, Brittany Murchie Mulla and Mark Alnutt break ground for the new Brittany Murchie Mulla Performance Center.
    UB breaks ground on new sports performance center
    7/7/23

    The state-of-the-art Brittany Murchie Mulla Sports Performance Center will double the training space for UB’s student-athletes.

  • Concept of business losses, with one block featuring a % sign and the other up and down arrows.
    In business, all losses are not alike
    7/11/23

    A School of Management study shows how accounting practices distort economic reality.

  • Grinslade selected as AAN fellow
    7/11/23

    The School of Nursing faculty member is being recognized by the American Academy of Nursing for her outstanding impact on health and health care.

  • Person grabbing their inflammed knee.
    Pain risk varies significantly across states
    7/14/23

    A UB study found the risk of joint pain is over three times higher in some states — particularly in the South — as compared to others.

  • Tim and Vicky Murphy, pictured outdoors.
    Murphy family gift to address health inequities
    7/12/23

    The endowment from Tim and Vicki Murphy will support the Community Health Equity Research Institute and scholarships for nursing students. 

  • Chemical model of THC-O-acetate with cannabis plant in the background.
    New study debunks claims of psychedelic cannabinoid
    7/14/23

    Researchers caution that contaminants and expectations created through social media and online message forums may be to blame.

  • Zoom image: From left: James Hanna, Jonathan Hoag and Carlton E. Brett examine rocks at Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve in May. Photo courtesy of HNHS/Penn Dixie
    A rare discovery
    7/13/23

    UB geology student James Hanna's discovery extends the fossil record of an extinct ancestor of starfish by 25 million years.

  • Srikrithi Krishnan (left), X, and X bag fresh, in-season produce for the Food Box initiative.
    Student-led program an oasis in the ‘food desert’
    7/17/23

    The Food Box initiative aims to help combat food insecurity, one fresh food box at a time.

  • Solar array on UB North Campus.
    UB holds steady in Times Higher Education Impact rankings
    7/18/23

    THE rankings measure universities around the globe against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Promotional graphic for the Teaching Black History conference reading, "The sounds of Blackness Hip Hop Turns 50" featuring a colorful grafiti styling of the word "Hip Hop.".
    Hip hop’s influence in teaching Black history
    7/13/23

    This year's annual Teaching Black History Conference aims to show educators and others how Black history and hip hop intersect.

  • A deer wading in Bizer Creek.
    UB teeming with (wild)life, even during summer
    7/17/23

    Members of the UB community have had some interesting encounters with the other residents of the North Campus.

  • Tomás Aguirre.
    Aguirre named dean of students
    7/14/23

    Tomás A. Aguirre, former vice president for student life and chief diversity officer at SUNY Delhi, has been appointed dean of students at UB, effective July 31.

  • Text reads "Buffalo Pharmacy Summer Institute" includes a graphic of a sun with a mortar and pestle in the center.
    UB hosts 8th annual Pharmacy Summer Institute
    7/18/23

    Program provided rising high school and college students with the opportunity to explore topics and careers in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.

  • Zhen Wang, right, Emily Carrol, left, have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart failure drug digoxin.
    UB lab identifies key enzyme for heart failure drug digoxin
    7/19/23

    The breakthrough discovery could help reduce the plant-based drug’s three-year production time and lead to less toxic alternatives.

  • 3D model of a human lung tumor.
    UB, partner awarded grant to study immune cell therapy for tumors
    7/20/23

    The work could improve chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a promising type of immunotherapy treatment.

  • Concept of cloud computing featuring server stacks in a cloud.
    UB, SUNY Poly project to democratize wireless network research
    7/20/23

    A $60K SUNY grant for UnionLabs aims to help create an open system for collaboration and resource sharing.

  • Buffalo Bills Safety Damar Hamlin is removed from Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio in an ambulance. The Buffalo Bills, in white, kneel at the bottom left of the image.
    Bisson, Fineberg receive ESPY’s Pat Tillman Award
    7/21/23

    The UB faculty members are part of the Buffalo Bills’ medical and athletic training staffs that were recognized for saving the life of Bills safety Damar Hamlin.

  • Concept of artificial intelligence featuring the letters AI and a network of circles and lines.
    The power of AI
    7/24/23

    Artificial intelligence expert Jinjun Xiong talks to UBNow about the impact of AI on research now and in the future, and how it will affect health care.

  • Ambre Amat pictured on a tennis court.
    Leaving everything behind for the UB dream
    7/24/23

    “Green” athlete and world-traveler Ambre Amat says coming to UB was the “scariest and most exciting decision” she has ever made.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yun Wu.
    Wu named chair of biomedical engineering
    7/26/23

    The prolific scholar and dedicated educator will lead a department that has grown significantly since its founding in 2008.

  • Jaclyn Lavesque pictured in her home studio holding her first painting.
    SPHHP staff member aims to bring joy to others with her art
    7/28/23

    This installment of Out of Office spotlights Jaclyn Levesque, who is taking part in the Lewiston Art Festival for the first time.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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