Mame-Fatou Niang, a visiting scholar studying Blackness in contemporary France, is teaching a seminar this semester as the Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair.
Faculty experts weigh in on trending topics. Their views and opinions are based on their expertise and research, and do not represent the official positions of UB.
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."
Creating pathways for minority candidates, especially former players, to achieve leadership success could go a long way, UB's Helen "Nellie" Drew says.
The engineering faculty member, hired as part of UB's historic faculty hiring initiative, works with community groups to solve real-life engineering issues.
UBNow talks with medical student Mohamed Bah, who did a clinical rotation with the team as part of the NFL's Diversity in Sports Medicine Pipeline Initiative.
Artificial intelligence expert Jinjun Xiong talks to UBNow about the impact of AI on research now and in the future, and how it will affect health care.
Luis R. De Jesús Báez is UB’s first recipient of the Non-Tenure Faculty Award that aims to encourage the pursuit of new ideas among tenure-track faculty.