Research News

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  • Why do we love carbs?
    10/22/24

    A study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding the genetic variation that shapes our modern diet.

  • Ukrainian Fulbright scholar studies veterans, leadership
    6/8/23

    Nataliia Kalmykova’s research examines women in the military and aims to build U.S.-like programs to serve Ukrainian veterans.

  • Harnessing ‘sentinels’ of immune system
    6/7/23

    Researchers will use a grant for dendritic cell immunotherapy to study a hybrid drug-delivery vehicle that breaks through intracellular traffic jams.

  • Don’t worry, be happy? It’s not that simple
    6/1/23

    New UB research suggests that people’s beliefs about happiness matter in shaping their everyday goal pursuits and well-being. 

  • Climate change to push species, reduce their habitats
    5/30/23

    Rising temperatures may force species to move to new locations to survive, which might not be possible, researchers say.

  • Arany receives dental laser research award
    5/30/23

    The T. H. Maiman Award from the Academy of Laser Dentistry recognizes the UB oral biologist for his work on photobiomodulation.

  • PhD student chosen for prestigious DOE research program
    5/24/23

    Chemical engineer Lili Rassouli is studying ways to convert solar energy into other clean fuels.

  • Fliesler receives LSU honor for second time
    5/23/23

    The Chancellor’s Award Lecture in Neuroscience and Ophthalmology recognizes the UB faculty member's major discoveries in the field.

  • UB researcher receives Radcliffe Fellowship
    5/18/23

    Eduardo Mercado III’s “Singers as Sentinels” project will explore how human noise pollution presents a new threat to whales’ survival.

  • Three named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    5/18/23

    UB faculty members Xiufeng Liu, Thomas Thundat and Robert Zivadinov have been promoted to the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

  • Defining the boundaries of human motion
    5/16/23

    UB anthropologists are looking at the fundamental adaptations in the human body that enable us to throw accurately.