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Luis Colón retires, leaving behind a legacy defined by mentorship as much as research
4/24/26
After 33 years at UB, Luis Colón is retiring, leaving behind a career defined as much by the students he mentored as by the research he conducted.
Penguin ‘toxicologists’ find forever chemicals in remote Patagonia
4/13/26
A study by UB and UC Davis researchers shows a non-invasive way animals can help monitor their environment.
More than a pretty picture, star-shaped nanomaterial changes energy storage
4/13/26
The nanomaterial vanadyl hydroxide behaves more like a pseudocapacitor than a battery when it forms as a star-shaped structure, a UB study has found.
How One Fat Molecule Can Help Trigger Both Cell Limbo and Cell Death
4/13/26
A study led by the Atilla-Gokcumen group sheds light on why some cells remain alive but no longer divide.

Tracking forever chemicals across food web shows not all isomers are distributed equally
12/31/25
Samples from water, fish and bird eggs demonstrate the need to measure these unique molecular structures separately.
Prof. Luis De Jesús Báez earns Ovshinsky sustainable energy fellowship from APS
12/1/25
University at Buffalo chemist Luis De Jesús Báez has received the 2025 Stanford R. Ovshinsky Fellowship from the American Physical Society for his work developing new, more sustainable materials for energy storage.

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