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  • Zoom image: Rendering of the exterior of the proposed new Sustainability Workforce Training Center, a collaboration between PUSH Buffalo and UB's School of Architecture and Planning. Rendering courtesy of Gwyneth Harris, Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    UB architecture school partners with PUSH Buffalo to train workers in green jobs
    6/17/22

    Community Climate Leadership program aims to develop “citizen architects” while preparing trainees for stable, living-wage employment.

  • Rendering of a tiny home created by UB architecture students.
    UB class shows tiny homes can do a lot of good
    6/6/22

    Students designed prototypes, then developed them to permit-ready construction documents for three tiny homes that will be built for people experiencing homelessness in Syracuse, New York.

  • Two adults teach two students how to use MindLabs, a platform for teaching young students STEM-based concepts in fun and engaging ways.
    UB partners with Explore Interactive to teach STEM remotely to elementary students
    6/3/22

    The effort, funded by a $1 million National Science Foundation grant, aims to make STEM learning fun and engaging for young students.

  • An illustration of molybdenum disulfide enriched with MXenes and carbon nanotubes. It looks like little bits of gold randomly placed on purple layers.
    Study: New electrocatalyst offers hope for less expensive hydrogen fuel
    6/3/22

    It could reduce industry’s reliance on expensive platinum, which has hindered the growth of fuel cell electric vehicles, green power generation and more.

  • Zoom image: The subfossil jawbone of a polar bear that lived 115,000 to 130,000 years ago in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. A genomic study includes an analysis of DNA extracted from a tooth attached to this jawbone, which is now housed at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. Credit: Photo by Karsten Sund, Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Oslo
    How species form: What the tangled history of polar bear and brown bear relations tells us
    6/6/22

    It’s complicated. Rather than simple splitting events, the species histories of polar and brown bears, like those of humans, hide convoluted stories of divergence and interbreeding, study finds.

  • A diverse group of LAPD officers and supervisors respond to an assault investigation in Northridge, CA.
    Study: COVID-19 accounted for 62% of duty-related law enforcement deaths in 2020
    6/6/22

    Study is the first to examine law enforcement deaths from COVID-19 on a national level, demonstrating the widespread risk from COVID that officers face in their work.

  • Portrait of a woman in red with long dark hair and wearing a necklace.
    NIDCR director to deliver lecture on state of oral health at UB
    6/8/22

    NIDCR director Rena D’Souza will visit UB to deliver a report on the status of oral health in the U.S. and discuss the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion within the biomedical sciences.

  • Zoom image: Cari Casteel, Âé¶¹´«Ã½o clinical assistant professor of history, studies the history of deodorant. Credit: Douglas Levere / Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    An ‘olfactory identity’: UB researcher studies the history of deodorant
    6/9/22

    ‘Deodorant is, for many of us, an oft overlooked part of the way we present ourselves to the world,’ says historian Cari Casteel, whose interests include how scents connect with ideas about gender.

  • A microscope image shows the oncofusion protein FUS-DDIT3 forming ectopic droplets inside laboratory-cultured live cells. These protein droplets appear as a bright cherry-colored blob, as they are tagged with the mCherry red fluorescent protein. Credit: Richoo B. Davis.
    How might chimeric, droplet-forming proteins contribute to cancer?
    6/8/22

    A review article highlights the latest science in this field, focusing on protein droplets termed, “ectopic condensates."

  • Portrait of UB biophysics researcher Jian Feng.
    UB-led study presents critical step forward in understanding Parkinson’s disease and how to treat it
    6/9/22

    Study found a method to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to A9 dopamine neurons (A9 DA), which are lost in Parkinson’s disease.

  • UB interlocking logo.
    EOC honors alumni, celebrates its educational circle
    6/10/22

    The EOC honored alumni who transformed from former students to teachers and community and faith-based leaders.

  • Elizabeth Otto, PhD.
    New leadership for the UB Humanities Institute
    6/13/22

    Elizabeth Otto’s three-year term will begin in the fall of 2023 following a fellowship from Germany’s Gerda Henkel Foundation.

  • A scientist holding up a piece of the magneto-ionic material using tweezers.
    Study: Magnetic material could help monitor battery life
    6/14/22

    Researchers demonstrate the technique in a lithium-ion battery.

  • 1982 photo of Dr. Robert Guthrie checking on an infant who benefitted from Guthrie's work.
    Guthrie Symposium brings together researchers, families to discuss advances in newborn screening
    6/16/22

    UB/Oishei symposium June 28 for researchers and families of children with genetic diseases will celebrate Buffalo’s legacy as the birthplace of newborn screening.

  • Person wearing a lab coat, shirt, tie and face mask, mixing colorful chemicals in a lab.
    UB receives nearly $13 million to improve quality of HIV research around world
    6/15/22

    The seven-year grant is the third contract awarded to UB to lead a clinical pharmacology quality assurance program for NIH-funded labs.

  • The 42-foot-long, three-chair S-Miles to Go dental van has served the community for more than 15 years, providing more than 38,000 patient visits.
    UB receives $550,000 to provide dental care to people who are homeless, uninsured in WNY
    6/15/22

    The care will be delivered through the UB S-Miles To Go program using the university’s mobile dental clinics.

  • Zoom image: Researcher Nicole Wong was co-first author of the new study in Nature Communications. Wong worked on the study as a UB PhD student in biological sciences and is now a postdoctoral researcher in biology at Brandeis University. Credit: Douglas Levere / Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    Biochemists use proteins to change how neurons communicate
    6/15/22

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

  • Baird Point and Lake La Salle at dusk (the blue hour) on North Campus in the fall of 2018.
    UB to host 2022 Positioning Theory Conference
    6/15/22

    The international conference will allow researchers and practitioners to share research and discuss the use of positioning theory across disciplines. 

  • Hand wearing purple glove holds a petri dish filled with bacteria. A blue tool is used to spread the bacteria. Photographer: Douglas Levere.
    Researchers to test blocking ‘hypermutations’ in deadly bacteria
    6/16/22

    UB receives $4 million from NIAID to develop new treatments that prevent 'hypermutations' in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

  • UB interlocking logo.
    Media Advisory: Elected officials, UB leaders to discuss new engineering building on Friday
    6/23/22

    The $102 million project, made possible by Gov. Kathy Hochul, will support growing engineering and computer science programs, UB’s top 25 ambition.

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    UB Vice President for Health Sciences issues statement on the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v Wade
    6/24/22

    A woman’s right to the best health care includes the right to the best reproductive health care, Allison Brashear says.

  • Members of the UB community gathered with elected officials in a semi-circle to pose for a picture on Friday at UB.
    Leaders praise plans for new $102 million engineering building
    6/24/22

    The new building will allow the university to meet increased enrollment demand while also fostering the growth of the state's STEM workforce.

  • Zoom image: To study medicines in wastewater, UB scientists use the equipment and techniques pictured here to isolate chemical compounds from water samples. Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki / Âé¶¹´«Ã½o
    Monitoring COVID-19: Could medicine found in wastewater provide an early warning?
    6/29/22

    Research on wastewater finds that a spike in acetaminophen — the active ingredient in medications like Tylenol — preceded a spike in viral RNA during one COVID-19 wave in Western New York.

  • Three women playing a game of pool.
    Combatting unwanted sexual experiences in college
    6/29/22

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

  • Kafuli Agbemenu.
    Roe v. Wade: UB experts available to discussion decision and impact
    6/30/22

    From medicine and law to history and politics, experts can weigh in on issues.

  • Megan Conrow-Graham standing in lab next to microscope.
    When ASD occurs with intellectual disability, a convergent mechanism for two top-ranking risk genes may be the cause
    6/30/22

    A convergent mechanism may be responsible for how two top-ranked genetic risk factors for autism spectrum disorder/intellectual disability (ASD/ID) lead to these neurodevelopmental disorders. 

  • Illustration of a person holding a smartphone and social media icons in bubbles surrounding the phone.
    To fight online disinformation, UB launches Center for Information Integrity
    7/1/22

    The initiative merges a broad range of STEM and non-STEM disciplines.

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