Good Health and Well-being

Sustainability facculty members Dr. Susan Clark and Dr. Nicholas Rajkovich will be moderators for two upcoming NYS webinars discussing the social and infrastrucutral impacts of extreme heat.

Sustianability Month at UB is about celebrating our faculty, staff, and student work in making progress towards the goals of our university-wide Climate Action Plan. 

Fifteen students from UB have been recognized for their outstanding achievements in leadership, community service, campus involvement, or the arts, earning the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest student award offered by SUNY. 

SUNY Distinguished Professor Andrew Whittaker is part of a cohort led by TerraPraxis, a non-profit focused on action for climate and prosperity, that is developing a digital platform to repower coal plants using advanced nuclear energy. 

Hundreds of unemployed, laid-off and underemployed workers in the region will be able to explore entrepreneurial paths and participate in a robust training initiative offered by UB’s Western New York Incubator Network (WIN) and the School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL).

Addressing health inequities in Buffalo will require research into innovative solutions that grapple with a wide range of issues, including gentrification, the physical environment, food deserts, transportation issues, criminal justice, housing, education and employment.

The School of Nursing will administer $200,000 in funding to help underserved and racial minorities find better mental health during and after COVID-19.

After two years of virtual presentations, the Mobile Market Summit at UB will return to an in-person format March 29-30, with a virtual option as well.

In the years after UB faculty member Noemi Waight moved to Buffalo from Illinois, she got to know her new home by bicycling with community groups. The experience gave her the idea to take graduate pre-service students on cycling explorations to learn more about their community and the science resources that can make classroom lessons more engaging.

Last fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that GenX chemicals were more toxic than the “forever chemicals” they were developed to replace. Now, a new UB-led study examines what happens when GenX — chemicals used in food packaging, nonstick coating and other products — interacts with water.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – To more powerfully address and reverse Buffalo’s entrenched health disparities, a University at Buffalo center dedicated to regenerating underdeveloped neighborhoods is joining the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB.

If you have indigestion, stress, headache or inflammation, you might want to head over to the southwest corner of Cary Hall on the South Campus. There, at a new garden, you can take in the aroma of herbs believed to help with those ailments (respectively, lemon verbena, lavender, mint and tarragon).

Join the seventh annual Step Challenge to help relieve stress. In fact, science agrees with that suggestion: Studies during and well before the pandemic — including those from UB’s WHI — show that physical activity is “conducive to enhancing happiness and improving mental health.”

At one of the largest public gatherings ever hosted by UB's medical school, over 400 East Side residents, academics, and community advocates gathered to discuss the East Side Neighborhood Transformation Project, a novel approach for neighborhood revitalization aimed at radically transforming communities located on the Black East Side.

Thanks to grant funding provided by the EPA, researchers at UB will soon be able to monitor air quality on Buffalo's East Side more thorouhgly than ever before. Data collected by the 30 installed air monitors will be able to pinpoint specific areas where quality is the worst, empowering communities in this area to take action.

A new UB-led study explores some of the nonmedical, systemic factors that play a role in creating barriers to cannabis access among cancer patients, opening up further research potential that can be used to provide solutions to medical disparities. 

Improving health outcomes for everybody requires collaboration between scientists and researchers, but a recent goal set forth by the UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) sets out to include children into the research-partnership equation. 

Susan Grinslade, community engagement coordinator for the School of Nursing, is continuing the Million Hearts initiative in an effort to reduce inequlaities for residents of Buffalo's East Side by providing free cardiovascular screenings. 

The School of Public Health and Health Professions has announced that federal funding in the amount of $933,800 has been awarded to the production of a new mobile health unit, attempting to meet the needs of medically underserved and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Erie, Niagara and surrounding counties. 

New grant funding provided by the American Heart Association will supply a UB research team with the capital resources to study the clinical effectiveness of “food-is-medicine” programming, a food-prescription initiative geared towards older adults.

A UB-led research team is developing new catalysts that aim to turn climate-warming methane emissions - the second most abundant greenhouse gas and the primary component of natural gas - into useful commercial products, such as chemical feedstocks .