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  • Movie poster for Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 movie, "Triumph of the Will.".
    Nazi propaganda film in series lineup
    8/2/17

    Leni Riefenstahl's infamous film “Triumph of the Will” will be screened this fall as part of the Buffalo Film Seminars.

  • Dentist holding a dental x-ray.
    Link between gum disease, cancer risk
    8/1/17

    A UB-led study is the first to report an association between periodontal disease and gallbladder cancer risk in women or men.

  • Bridge under construction.
    Bridges, roads key to public health
    8/1/17

    Architecture professor Korydon Smith says health care reform and America's aging infrastructure should be part of the same debate.

  • Infrared light beams are trapped by tiny gaps in a square-shaped metal surface.
    Doping athletes: This sensor may be your downfall
    8/2/17

    A new optical device developed by a UB-led research team could help detect drugs, bomb-making chemicals and more.

  • Silhouette of a woman stretching her arms up in a gesture of confidence.
    Using pronouns to build confidence
    8/3/17

    Using self-distancing language in stressful situations can help us “see” ourselves through someone else’s eyes, according to new UB research.

  • 11-Day Power Play team photo, Amy Lesakowski in Center, Michael Lesakowski (MS '08) to her right. Photo: Bill Wippert.
    Staffer, alums part of record hockey game
    8/3/17

    Steven Roder, Michael Lesakowski and Peter Merlo helped raise $1.2 million for RPCI while breaking a Guinness record.

  • Screen capture from video about Buffalo Manufacturing Works.
    Center helps manufacturers thrive
    8/4/17

    UB-affiliated Buffalo Manufacturing Works brings advanced manufacturing to large and small companies that want to embrace it.

  • Janine Antoni. Still from Touch, 2002. Video installation, edition of 5 + 2 APs. © Janine Antoni; Image courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.
    ‘Wanderlust’ explores the artist as voyager
    8/7/17

    The upcoming UB Art Galleries exhibition considers the themes of action and exploration outside of the studio.

  • a sample of soil in a blue container.
    Study kicks off with soil sampling
    8/4/17

    The study of how Tonawanda Coke plant emissions may have affected nearby soil has begun with soil sampling.

  • Cory Nealon bikes to work.
    UB's ‘road warriors’
    8/9/17

    An increasing number of faculty, staff and students are trekking to campus on two wheels instead of four.

  • View from the back of 3 mature men running on a treadmill.
    Fight frailty with bursts of exercise
    8/8/17

    High intensity interval training can reverse frailty in older populations, a UB preclinical study has found.

  • Silhouettes of two men pointing to a screen of big data.
    Boost for biomedical informatics
    8/8/17

    A $2.5 million federal grant will train a new cadre of research leaders skilled in analyzing and interpreting big health care data.

  • row of bikes.
    Amenities abound for bicyclists at UB
    8/9/17

    UB continues to improve its bicycling infrastructure by adding amenities for convenience and practicality.

  • TV screen featuring news coverage of a violent event.
    Violent news videos can be motivator
    8/9/17

    UB research suggests providing a more complete account of severe events can motivate people to care more about what they’re seeing.

  • beach on Lake Erie in Cleveland.
    Addressing extreme heat in cities
    8/10/17

    Architecture professor Nicholas Rajkovich says cities need more than air conditioning to get through heat waves.

  • photo of Umesh Sharma.
    Grant to fund heart failure study
    8/10/17

    UB's Umesh Sharma has received a $1M grant through an NIH program that supports clinical and translational researchers early in their careers.

  • photo of ClearView Social founder Adrian Dayton.
    Helping firms use social media
    8/11/17

    Startup ClearView Social helps law firms and other companies share information with their online contacts.

  • Feng gu.
    End of accounting?
    8/14/17

    Management professor Feng Gu argues that Generally Accepted Accounting Principles have lost their relevance.

  • Two boys shooting off a bottle rocket. in background is faculty member Mark Swihart.
    Camp offers pathway to BNMC
    8/11/17

    The ACES summer camp teaches high school students about the range of jobs on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

  • Section of the Bill of Rights.
    Clinic teaches the power to ‘do good’
    8/14/17

    The School of Law’s Civil Liberties and Transparency Clinic aims to obtain access to information and defend freedom of speech.

  • After being coated, the students recite the Oath of Medicine.
    UB welcomes largest med school class
    8/15/17

    The white coat ceremony marked an institutional milestone, as well as a personal milestone for the new students.

  • Officer Dale Hohl (left) and Lieutenant Kevin Will (right) portrait at Getzville Frie Company on Dodge Rd. in Amherst, NY.
    Work as firefighters enhances UPD
    8/16/17

    University Police officers Dale Hohl and Kevin Will say UB benefits from their experience as first-responders with local fire companies.

  • Group shot of Social Impact Fellows.
    Creating social innovation in WNY
    8/15/17

    UB's Social Impact Fellows are addressing the needs of foster youth and other critical issues.

  • White nationalists demonstrate in Charlottesville, VA. on August 11, 2017. Photo: Karla Cote, creative commons license.
    White supremacists not going away
    8/15/17

    Charlottesville “won’t be the last time we see something like this,” UB historian Carole Emberton says.

  • total eclipse.
    Total eclipse of the sun
    8/16/17

    Americans are in for a rare treat, UB faculty say, as the “path of totality” of next week's solar eclipse makes landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 1979.

  • Figure showing the production of human myelin by transplanted human OPCs.
    Do MS results in mice help humans?
    8/17/17

    UB researchers have developed a method for determining how relevant findings from mouse models are to humans.

  • 3 smiling dental students.
    Tops among dental schools
    8/16/17

    The School of Dental Medicine has been ranked 10th among U.S. schools and 11th among schools worldwide in the 2017 Shanghai Ranking.

  • a section of a mouse brain with injected magnetic nanoparticles covering targeted cells in the striatum.
    Using magnetism to stimulate brain
    8/18/17

    The minimally invasive technique could lead to advances in mapping the brain and treating neurological disease.

  • guidebook of Niagara Falls, Eugene Musial Buffalo Imprint Collection.
    Buffalo’s first books find home at UB
    8/18/17

    The UB Libraries have acquired the Eugene Musial Buffalo Imprint Collection, which includes the first book printed in Buffalo in 1812.

  • From left: Christopher Keough, Carmella Marinaccio and Jomarie Woltz serve meals at the City Mission.
    UB Cares
    8/17/17

    UB volunteers once again played a huge role in the annual Day of Caring.

  • illustration of human gut microbiome.
    GEM awards third round of funding
    8/21/17

    The funded projects are focused on improving our understanding of the human genome and microbiome.

  • CCR servers.
    CCR staffer joins SC conference team
    8/22/17

    Dori Sajdak is helping to create and manage the massive network for the SC supercomputing conference.

  • Man wearing eclipse glasses to look at eclipse.
    Wear safety glasses during eclipse
    8/18/17

    UB's Andrew Reynolds says even glancing at the sun poses a risk, so NASA-approved glasses are essential when viewing the eclipse.  

  • New students, aided by UB community volunteers, move into the dorms during UB's Welcome Weekend.
    UB welcomes new students
    8/23/17

    UB will greet incoming students with a variety of programs designed to get them off to a strong start when classes begin on Monday.

  • Diana Aga.
    Aga to receive Schoellkopf Medal
    8/23/17

    The award honors the UB chemistry professor's research on the ecological impact of emerging contaminants.

  • illustration of three capsule-shaped antibiotics that combine to kill a once-invincible superbug.
    ‘Superteam’ squashes superbug
    8/22/17

    UB researchers use a novel combination of antibiotics to kill the first strain of highly resistant E. coli in the United States.

  • exterior of UB's NYS Center of Excellence in bioinformatics and life sciences.
    UB receives $10M to drive partnerships
    8/24/17

    The award, to UB CAT, is a boost to startups and mid-to-late-stage companies.

  • Students on the Hayes Hall lawn observe the August 21 eclipse.
    UB ‘nerds out’ for solar eclipse
    8/22/17

    Offices emptied and heads turned skyward yesterday as hundreds at UB gathered to watch the solar eclipse.

  • In Idaho, UB physicist Will Kinney photographed the diamond ring effect, which occurs as a solar eclipse nears totality.
    Chasing the shadow of the moon
    8/22/17

    Several UB families journeyed long distances to see yesterday’s solar eclipse in the path of totality.

  • Older woman with a hearing problem taking a hearing test and may need a hearing aid, in the foreground is a model of a human ear.
    How loud noise may change hearing
    8/25/17

    Matthew Xu-Friedman talks about how changes in auditory nerve synapses could have consequences for tinnitus and language processing.

  • aerial view of buffalo.
    Partnership to boost tech sector
    8/29/17

    UB has joined with Sigfox to bring to Buffalo a wireless network designed for the internet of things.

  • headshot of Hailey Banack.
    UB lands its first Banting Fellow
    8/29/17

    Postdoc Hailey Banack will use the prestigious Canadian award to study how obesity affects the health of older women.

  • Child's hand with areas of redness indicating pain.
    UB receives Arthritis Foundation grant
    8/31/17

    The award to PI James N. Jarvis will be used to study how genes and the environment work to influence the immune dysfunction in juvenile arthritis.

  • The School of Management MBA students load into buses on North Campus for the Buffalo Impact Tour.
    MBAs take custom tour of Buffalo
    8/28/17

    The trip, led by the School of Management, spotlights how UB is helping to revitalize the Queen City.

  • Senior and young woman holding hands over fall leaves background.
    Caregiving can relieve stress
    8/28/17

    The time caregivers spend helping a loved one can improve the caregiver’s sense of well-being, new UB research shows.

  • Modern ultrasound machine.
    At risk for heart failure
    8/28/17

    Ultrasounds can help spot TAVR patients at risk for future heart failure, UB research shows.

  • Traditional African dance at the Babungo Kingdom in Cameroon.
    Linguistic diversity of Cameroon
    8/30/17

    UB professor Jeff Good says the African country's many languages are endangered — and so are the ways that people use them.

  • Thomas Moore at the piano.
    ‘Triadic Memories’ to open concert season
    8/30/17

    A performance of the classic Morton Feldman piece by pianist Thomas Moore opens the Department of Music's 2017-18 concert season.

  • Participants in the School of Public Health and Health Professions Public Health Summer Camp take part in lesson about community accessibility for people with disabilities at Kimball.
    Educating future health care workers
    8/30/17

    A free camp hosted by UB introduced Buffalo youth to educational and career opportunities in public health and health professions.

  • green factory.
    Safer manufacturing through materials science
    8/29/17

    A partnership with The JPB Foundation aims to speed adoption of environmentally sustainable processes and procedures.

  • Tumor growth, tissue section.
    Silencing chatter among cancer cells
    8/31/17

    Funded by a $1.5M NIH grant, pharmacy professor Juliane Nguyen’s work has the potential to prevent metastasis in cancer patients.

  • Students walking along Founders Plaza.
    Programs among the world's best
    8/31/17

    UB's programs in civil engineering, library science and communication are among the top 50 worldwide, according to the 2017 Shanghai Ranking.

  • ub logo.
    Students can choose preferred names
    8/30/17

    Students now can select the first and middle names that appear on class rosters and in the HUB.

  • Google Earth image of Houston's Addicks and Barker reservoirs.
    Flooding forecasts future challenges
    8/31/17

    Geographer Chris Renschler says the situation in Houston underscores the issues disaster managers will face in the years ahead.

  • Neighbors help push a stranded motorist through flood waters.
    Civilian response key in large disasters
    8/31/17

    When a disaster gets beyond a certain size, the response effort will take neighbor helping neighbor, UB professor Natalie Simpson says.

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