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  • Students in the Destination Dental School program make molds of their teeth in the pre-clinical simulation lab.
    UB鈥檚 Destination Dental School receives second award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine
    9/1/23

    This marks the second year that the program has received this award.

  • From left to right, Eunice Lewin, John B. King, Satish K. Tripathi and Venu Govindaraju.
    SUNY Chancellor King to join UB President Tripathi to launch new UB | AI Chat Series
    9/6/23

    The visit spotlights UB’s national leadership in artificial intelligence and New York State investment to spur research growth.

  • UB logo.
    UB announces lineup for 2023-24 Distinguished Speakers Series
    9/5/23

    Speakers include "Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider, journalist Nicholas Thompson and legal scholar Nita Farahany, author Heather McGhee, and poet Amanda Gorman.

  • A woman uses an insulin pen to give herself an injection.
    After treatment with semaglutide, newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients needed little or no insulin
    9/6/23

    Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide may drastically reduce or even eliminate their need for injected insulin. 

  • A lab dropper transfers a red liquid into a glass held by a black gloved hand.
    Minimizing fallout from explosive cell death could slow inflammation, cancer spread
    9/7/23

    A new study identifies the fatty acid-making protein behind membrane rupture and inflammation during necroptosis.

  • Victoria Wolcott.
    Wolcott named director of UB Gender Institute
    9/8/23

    Victoria Wolcott, professor of history, is the new director of UB's Gender Institute, succeeding Carrie Tirado Bramen.

  • View of the Hayes Hall clock tower in the fall.
    UB is among the best in the nation in economic diversity
    9/11/23

    Among 286 U.S. universities ranked by The New York Times’ College-Access Index, UB is 28th in the country overall by Pell share rank, and 8th among public universities. Among 50 state flagships, UB is No. 2 nationally.

  • A young woman vaping.
    People who used e-cigarettes before pregnancy were more likely to stop smoking than those using nicotine replacement therapy
    9/12/23

    Researchers have found that people using e-cigarettes before pregnancy were more likely than those using nicotine replacement therapy to abstain from smoking later in pregnancy.

  • Cultivator graduates pose while sitting and standing behind a projection that says Cultivator.
    13 WNY-based startups have 鈥榞raduated鈥 from UB鈥檚 Cultivator, with more to come next week
    9/12/23

    The support program provides critical mentorship and funding for promising startups.

  • The water-repellent nature of lotus leaves led UB researchers to develope a fog-free face shield.
    To design fog-free PPE, student researchers turn to lotus plant
    9/15/23

    A new study outlines how 麻豆传媒o students, with the help of a local high schooler, used the aquatic plant to create face shields for dentists.

  • Zoom image: 麻豆传媒o senior staff scientist Surya Venkata Pulavarti and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Thomas Szyperski study the cold unfolding of proteins. Szyperski is a principal investigator on a new National Science Foundation grant to continue that work. Photo: Douglas Levere/麻豆传媒o
    UB receives NSF grant to answer big questions about cold unfolding proteins
    9/13/23

    The phenomenon is crucial for protein design and function, as well as understanding life at very low temperatures and high pressure.

  • Ken Leonard stands in an office in front of a bookcase.
    National consortium on alcohol use in adolescents names UB expert to its board
    9/14/23

    Kenneth E. Leonard, PhD, director of the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions, has been appointed to the Program Advisory Board of the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescent-Adulthood.

  • Candy Chang prepares a wall for a “Before I Die” presentation. Participants share their personal thoughts on the wall while completing the sentence, “Before I die …”.
    鈥淏efore I Die鈥 creator to kick off this year鈥檚 Buffalo Humanities Festival
    9/15/23

    Chang’s “Before I Die” walls represent “one of the most creative projects ever,” according to The Atlantic; several local installations will be in place in the days prior to Chang’s talk.

  • Fluorescent confocal microscopy images of neuronal cells showing the CHRFAM7A carrier (right) and without it (left).
    Researchers discover how a gene only some of us have may protect against neurodegeneration
    9/18/23

    Researchers have discovered how an active form of a gene present in 75% of the human population works to protect the brain against neurodegeneration. 

  • Zoom image: Insha Akram, a graduate student in the UB Food Lab, photographed in front of Hayes Hall on the 麻豆传媒o’s South Campus. Photo: Douglas Levere
    A student鈥檚 journey from Kashmir to Buffalo to study food systems planning
    9/15/23

    Insha Akram’s pursuit of higher education is especially remarkable given the intertwined structural barriers that pervade life in a protracted conflict setting. 

  • A dentist works on a veterans' teeth.
    UB to offer free dental care to WNY vets in honor of Veterans Day
    9/18/23

    The annual event, called Dentistry Smiles for Veterans, is now its eighth year.

  • From left to right, Ravi Ranade, Pinar Okumus, and Negar Elhami-Khorasani in UB's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory, where experiments will take place.
    What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by coastal flooding?
    9/19/23

    With more buildings affected by sea level rise, NSF awards $2 million to UB researchers and partners to assess at-risk communities in Hawai’i, elsewhere.

  • Aerial view of Hayes Hall.
    UB ranks No. 36 among U.S. public colleges in latest U.S. News rankings
    9/18/23

    UB, New York’s flagship university, comes in at No. 36 among 227 public national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Colleges rankings.

  • Students work hovering over a table with papers in their hands.
    Media Advisory: Ceremony to celebrate growth in student entrepreneurship at UB
    9/19/23

    Blackstone LaunchPad will be rebranded and expand into new space in the Student Union.

  • Christian Johnson stands onstage with her award at the Fast 46 contest.
    UB names Beautiful Brains no. 1 business in Fast 46 competition
    9/19/23

    The Fast 46 competition is named in honor of UB’s founding in 1846; its mission is to recognize successful businesses led or owned by UB alumni or former students.

  • A look at the newly designed space for the “Startup and Innovation Collaboratory Powered by Blackstone LaunchPad” at the Student Union. The outside features light wood wall with the name of facility. There is also a TV screen.
    Student entrepreneurship grows at UB with relaunched program
    9/20/23

    Blackstone LaunchPad is changing its name, expanding its reach and growing into a larger space on the North Campus.

  • Brenda Moore, PhD, associate professor of sociology.
    UB military sociologist receives prestigious career achievement award
    9/20/23

     Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award recognizes senior scholars whose careers have demonstrated excellence in the field of military sociology.

  • Pablo Mitchell teaching a class.
    UB welcomes 154 new faculty
    9/21/23

    New hires present unprecedented opportunity to move the university’s long-range Top 25 Ambition forward and grow the faculty ranks in four key interdisciplinary areas of university strength and global importance. 

  • Zoom image: Corals are often the only three-dimensional structure in deep water, providing organisms with shelter and a place to feed. A 麻豆传媒o coral scientist co-led an experiment to replant coral along the Gulf of Mexico seafloor this spring. Photo: Howard Lasker
    For coral harmed by BP oil spill, a deep-sea 鈥榚levator鈥 offers hope for recovery
    9/21/23

    UB scientist and other researchers see early success using machines to garden 230 feet below the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Concept of being manipulated featuring a set of large hands with strings attached to the fingers taht are wrapped around a smaller figure's body and head.
    Finding predictable patterns in terrorist propaganda
    9/25/23

    Study’s results provide a foundation for developing counter messaging that seeks to neutralize those appeals or provide leverage for encouraging people to leave terrorist groups.

  • Zoom image: One of the winning crystals in the 2022 U.S. Crystal Growing Competition. Founded by Jason Benedict, associate professor of chemistry, it is returning for its 10th year. Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki/麻豆传媒o
    U.S. Crystal Growing Competition marks 10th anniversary
    9/25/23

    Founded by a UB chemist, the competition provides thousands of kids and teachers with a hands-on science project.  

  • A cooking pot on a gas stove-top.
    Study finds link to unclean cooking fuels and developmental delays in children
    9/27/23

    It is believed to be the first study to examine the impact of cooking fuels, heating fuels and passive smoking on child development measured in the five developmental domains in the U.S

  • Zoom image: The images above detail how the membrane forms. The three vertical images on the left show the bonds between titanium tetrachloride (metallic reactant) and ethylene glycol (organic reactant). The center image shows how the two materials combine. The images of the right side show the membrane without pores (dense OHF) and the memrane after carbon has been removed to create pores (porous CDTO).
    Separating molecules requires lots of energy. This heat-resistant membrane could change that
    9/26/23

    The technology could lower costs for making pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and other products.

  • A doctor takes a pregnant woman's blood pressure.
    Media Advisory: UB maternal health forum celebrates the life of Pearl Young with keynote talk by Barbara Ross-Lee
    9/26/23

    Improving maternal health outcomes is the focus of “A Mother Pearl Young Legacy Forum on Hope and Healing: Advancing Key Maternal Health Policies,” which will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • Two students displaying fresh produce at the UB Veggie Van mobile market.
    More than a market, UB Veggie Van is a 鈥榣iving lab鈥
    9/27/23

    On-campus mobile market is designed to test  innovations developed through the Veggie Van Study, while giving students the opportunity to learn through a related food entrepreneurship course.

  • A surgeon checks on a patient following surgery.
    Genetics can predict 鈥 and help improve 鈥 how patients fare after bariatric surgery
    9/27/23

    Clinicians treating severe obesity have a new genetic tool for predicting — and ultimately improving — bariatric surgery outcomes. 

  • Eva Zurek.
    UB partnering on world-leading EP-OPAL laser at University of Rochester
    9/27/23

    Ultrahigh-intensity laser facility could reestablish U.S. leadership in field of high-peak-power lasers.

  • Zoom image: The Workshop on Emerging HRMS and LC-MS/MS Applications in Environmental Analysis and Food Safety allowed scientists from across the globe to share their analytical chemistry research, including with a poster session in the UB Center for Tomorrow. Photo: Douglas Levere/麻豆传媒o
    UB-led workshop highlights new and improved ways to find forever chemicals and other pollutants
    9/27/23

    Scientists from across the globe gathered to discuss the latest chemical analysis breakthroughs.

  • Michael Groden pictured outdoors holding a copy of "Ulysses.".
    Buffalo International Film Festival to feature renowned James Joyce scholar and Buffalo native
    9/28/23

    Michael Groden, the late Buffalo native and renowned James Joyce scholar, bequeathed his collected works to the 麻豆传媒o Poetry Collection.

  • Rosalind Lai.
    Why do women develop cerebral aneurysms at a higher rate than men?
    9/29/23

    Rosalind Lai, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, has been awarded the CNS Foundation/CV Section Young Investigator Grant for her research on cerebral aneurysms.

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