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UB PhD alumna and Fulbright scholar Naila Sahar returns to teach and conduct research at UB as an AAUW Postdoctoral International Fellow.

Jacobs School staff member and former roller derby queen Midori Ohtake spends her Summer Hours pursuing her passion for skating at local parks.

GSE staffer Renad Aref is using her Summer Hours to turn two of her childhood hobbies — coin-collecting and jewelry-making — into a growing business.

Jane Sinclair-Piegza and her husband have turned a forlorn piece of earth into a healthy forest of native trees and shrubs where wildlife flourishes.

UB faculty member Korydon Smith creates design solutions for marginalized people around the world.

UB experts offer their perspectives on how to improve the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine messaging.

UB law professor and Jerusalem native Irus Braverman offers her perspective on the current unrest in Israel.

Here are some UB faculty members’ thoughts on the trial and the continued push for racial and social justice in the United States.

While humans are unlikely to evolve supepowers like the Marvel Universe characters, Iron Man's brains are one exception, UB anthropologist Evan Simons tells "Curious Kids."

Carefully — and with suction, UB geologist Tracy Gregg tells The Conversation’s “Curious Kids” feature.

In a Q&A with UBNow, neurosurgeon Elad Levy discusses the phenomenon that paused distribution of the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.

Raven Baxter and Olivia Geneus talk about the online movements they founded to celebrate and elevate the voices of Black scientists.

The group discusses the challenges it faced last March and April, the significance of its task, and how its work helped influence behaviors and, ultimately, save lives.

UB researcher Holly Buck is co-editor of a new book in which scholars explore the social and ethical dimensions of deliberate efforts to alter Earth’s climate.

Communication professor Yotam Ophir discusses how these falsehoods and the people who spread them endanger democracy.

The named professorship honors the memory of the late UB faculty member, who also led diversity efforts at UB and at SUNY at the time of her death.  

The local chapter of the Public Relations Society of America will honor Rodney Grabowski, UB's VP for advancement, at its annual Excalibur Awards ceremony.

Twenty have been recognized for consistently superior professional achievement and the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

The naming of the Nowicki Foreland honors Sophie Nowicki’s years of work in bringing global scientists together to model future sea level rise.

The designation for the UB civil engineer is reserved for the most eminent civil engineers in the American Society of Civil Engineers.