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UB’s 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.
UB researchers receive six NSF CAREER awards totaling nearly $3.8 million
8/28/23
The funding will help researchers advance AI-powered medical imaging, develop new lubricants for longer lasting cars, catch cybercriminals and more.
UB professor, partners awarded $300,000 to boost women in STEM
8/23/23
Matilde Sánchez-Peña and partners will study why, despite 20 years of investment, woman make up only 20% of engineering students and tenure-track faculty.
First-place Social Impact Fellows team helps connect refugees with critical resources
8/17/23
Prize money will allow Journey’s End Refugee Services to implement the UB team’s standout project.
UB awarded $3.4 million for expanded cybersecurity training program
8/7/23
The funding, from the National Science Foundation, will help train 24 cybersecurity experts who work for the FBI, CIA and other agencies
Media Advisory: High schoolers to probe stream water for genetic material at UB workshop
6/27/23
The scientific sleuthing is one of many activities planned at the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science.
Study: Academic fields valuing ‘brilliance’ less welcoming to women
6/22/23
Review of CVs shows fewer women enter and more leave these fields, a pattern that is explained in part by gender-based prejudice.
Media Advisory: Zimbabwe scholars at UB for faculty development program
6/20/23
The 6-week program includes participants who study everything from pharmacy and physiology to ecology and health information systems.
Assessment of how climate scientists communicate risk shows imperfections, improvements
6/19/23
The consequences of improving communications are enormous, as civic leaders incorporate climate scientists’ risk assessments into major planning efforts.
Hilligas named executive director of Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center
6/2/23
Currently executive director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center of Western New York, Hilligas begins his role at UB on June 12.