UB’s Center for Computational Research (CCR) will allow the Empire AI consortium to begin harnessing AI for the public good this fall.

UB’s AI and health equity plan advances in NSF Engines grant program

11/12/24

UB is now eligible — along with 70 proposals nationwide, including four others in New York — to compete for up to $160 million over 10 years in federal investment.

UB dental school awarded $7.3 million from NIH to develop microbiome research facility

11/12/24

The grant will fund the new 4,000 ft. facility, which will train scientists in a germ-free, safe and effective space for research into the oral microbiome and systemic diseases.

UB awarded $10 million to lead new center on early literacy and AI

9/20/24

The Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI will focus on harnessing AI to improve early literacy instruction for kindergarten through second-grade students across the nation.

UB awarded $3.6 million NIH grant to address health inequities in Western New York

8/21/24

UB has been awarded a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to help early career faculty address poverty, access to health care, educational opportunities and more.

UB, partners awarded $40 million to boost semiconductor industry

7/8/24

The Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse region will receive $40 million for semiconductor manufacturing, research and education, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced.

UB-based startup Abceutics Inc. acquired by Merck

5/9/24

Abceutics, Inc., a startup biopharmaceutical company spun out of a UB lab, has been acquired by the global biopharmaceutical company Merck for $208 million.

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UB │ AI Chat Series: Harnessing AI for Public Good

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As a young computer scientist at IBM, Jinjun Xiong was impressed when the company’s Watson computer won “Jeopardy!”. But he also thought we should be using AI to help people, not beat them. Today, as the director of UB’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, he’s spearheading multiple AI projects that do just that. In this episode of Driven to Discover, he talks to host Cory Nealon about all the ways AI can make our lives better, and why we shouldn’t be so afraid of it.

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Mary Bush was obsessed with true crime shows as a teen. Now she’s a leading authority on bitemark analysis. In this episode of Driven to Discover, the forensic dentist talks about her efforts to eradicate this faulty science from the U.S. court system, explains how she copes with the emotional toll of victim identification, and shares how she ended up on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries.”

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Epidemiologst Katarzyna Kordas discusses why lead-tainted cinnamon products have turned up on store shelves, and what questions consumers should ask.
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12/17/24
UB researchers find that feedback from Community Engagement Studio sessions can have a major impact on their studies.
UB expert on FDA panel on AI-enabled medical devices
12/16/24
Generative AI-enabled devices in medicine should be thought of not necessarily as tools but as “partners in care,” bioinformatics chair Peter Elkin says.