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  • Gil Wolfe in white coat, holding clipboard.
    UB researcher co-chairs international panel that expanded guidance for caring for patients with myasthenia gravis
    12/1/20
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Âé¶¹´«Ã½o researcher recently co-led a panel of 16 international experts on myasthenia gravis (MG) to revise and expand recommendations for managing the disease. Their paper was published in the journal Neurology on Nov. 3.
  • Portrait of Sarahmona Przybyla.
    UB scholar honored as ‘innovator in the field of HIV prevention research’
    12/1/20

    Sarahmona Przybyla received a Special Recognition Award from NYS Health Commissioner Howard Zucker during World AIDS Day summit.

  • Female patient receiving a medical exam by a female physician.
    $8.1 million grant will extend UB’s participation in Women's Health Initiative
    12/2/20

    With this extension through 2027, the WHI will have been continuously funded for 35 years.

  • Screen simulations on a smartphone showing the user interface for the mRehab app.
    UB developed program helps stroke survivors recover better at home
    12/3/20

    mRehab was designed to guide individuals with chronic stroke through a home program, while providing them with feedback on their recovery and performance specifically pertaining to upper limb mobility.

  • L to R Michael O'Hara and Heather Mattiuzzi of the Buffalo City Mission receive boxes from Praveen Arany.
    UB donates hundreds of reusable face masks and face shields made by faculty and students to the Buffalo City Mission
    12/3/20
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Âé¶¹´«Ã½o has donated more than 200 reusable 3D-printed face masks and 100 face shields to the Buffalo City Mission for distribution to its clients and staff.
  • Two female students working with a microscope type device in Huamin Li's lab.
    Atom-thin transistor uses half the voltage of common semiconductors, boosts current density
    12/8/20

    The two dimensional structure could by key for quantum computing, extending Moore’s Law.

  • Concept of memory loss featuring a head-shaped tree with leaves being blown away.
    Study: Memory deficits resulting from epigenetic changes in Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed
    12/9/20

    Memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be able to be restored by inhibiting certain enzymes involved in abnormal gene transcription, according to a preclinical study.

  • Portrait of UB social work researcher Kelly Patterson.
    UB social work researcher named to national panel to address evictions
    12/7/20

    Kelly Patterson joins the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s major new initiative to help develop possible interventions to the crisis of evictions.

  • Bruce Troen in white coat in lab.
    How does vitamin D supplementation affect falls in the elderly? It’s complicated.
    12/7/20

    A study published this week that shows no benefit from higher doses of vitamin D in the frail elderly, while of interest, is not the final chapter on how vitamin D affects this population, according to an editorial.

  • Ken Regan stands holding a chess board.
    During pandemic, chess detective is busier than ever
    12/8/20

    Chess cheating expert Kenneth Regan has been ‘overwhelmed’ with requests since tournaments moved online.

  • Albert Titus head shot.
    Albert Titus named to National Academy of Inventors
    12/10/20

    His innovative research spans an array of fields including artificial vision, artificial neural networks, optoelectronics and integrated sensor systems.

  • students dance on stage.
    UB Department of Theatre and Dance Presents Home and Away
    12/10/20

    UB Theatre and Dance is presenting a unique virtal dance concert.

  • Concept of the "fragile X" genetic mutation.
    New drug moves closer to becoming first treatment for Fragile X Syndrome
    12/11/20

    A new drug discovered through a research collaboration between the UB and Tetra Therapeutics took a major step toward becoming a first-in-class treatment for Fragile X Syndrome, a leading genetic cause of autism.

  • Cover of Elizabeth Otto's book "Haunted Bauhaus.".
    UB art historian wins major book award
    12/15/20

    Elizabeth Otto’s “Haunted Bauhaus” has won the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association’s 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, awarded annually for innovative scholarship in the fields of American and popular culture.

  • Richard Montagna (left) views the Rheonix CARD (r) Cartridge held by UB’s Michael Buck.
    UB industry partners step up to fight COVID-19
    12/15/20

    UB is connecting its academic community with industry partners to foster innovation in the life sciences.

  • UB launches the Cancer Research Consortium
    12/16/20

    The first meeting of the UB Cancer Research Consortium was held virtually on Dec. 10.

  • A view of downtown Buffalo's skyline.
    Introducing UB Fast 46: Business leaders and owners wanted!
    12/16/20

    Named in honor of UB’s founding in 1846, the program will celebrate 46 of the fastest-growing businesses owned or led by UB alumni or former students.

  • An illustration of the chip. A gloved hand holds a thin gold film which is struck by a beam of red light. An inset shows the chemical element abbreviations for gold and silver and the particles illuminated by the light.
    UB researchers report quantum-limit-approaching chemical sensing chip
    12/17/20

    The chip may have uses in food safety monitoring, anti-counterfeiting and other fields where trace chemicals are analyzed.

  • UB transnational studies professor Cecil Foster leaning on a stack of books on his desk.
    UB professor’s book inspires Canada’s largest Black-led television production in history
    12/17/20

    CBC and BET+ co-producing a new TV series inspired by Cecil Foster’s 2019 acclaimed groundbreaking book, “They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada.”

  • graphic of the interlocking ub logo.
    UB to start spring semester Feb. 1 under modified in-person format
    12/17/20

    UB's spring operations will again follow a modified in-person format, with courses delivered using a mix of in-person (and physically distanced) instruction, as well as remote learning.

  • Person collecting samples in test tubes.
    WNY patients can access COVID-19 clinical trials via UB partnership
    12/18/20

    The UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences and clinical trial services provider Circuit Clinical have partnered to provide Western New York patients access to clinical studies that investigate COVID-19 diagnostics, prevention and treatment.

  • UB students Joycelyn Moss, Philip Sales and Shaina Chechang hold PPE materials.
    2020 in review: How UB’s faculty, staff and students fought COVID-19
    12/18/20

    Members of the UB community found an abundance of ways to fight the pandemic in Western New York and beyond.

     

  • Zoom image: Researchers developed a new biometric approach that uses 3D images of finger veins. Shown are finger vessel images from eight different subjects, with colors that represent different depths. Photo: Jun Xia
    Twenty UB research stories from 2020
    12/28/20

    From celebrating the life of a Buffalo civil rights activist to resurrecting a mammoth’s broken genes, here are stories from the work of UB researchers in a difficult year.

  • Zoom image: Âé¶¹´«Ã½o architecture students designed and built a steel structure at Silo City in Buffalo that will train the branches of willow trees to form a canopied gathering space. Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
    UB architecture students add to Silo City’s regenerating landscape
    12/23/20

    Working with Rigidized Metals, students created a 60-foot trellis that will shape the branches of willow trees to form a canopied gathering space.

  • headshot of Patricia Diaz.
    Gum disease-causing bacteria borrow growth molecules from neighbors to thrive
    12/29/20

    The human body is filled with friendly bacteria. These peaceful bacteria engage in a one-sided relationship with pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, helping the germ multiply and cause gum disease, according to a new UB study.

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