News and Events

The recent Art in the Open event opened the doors of labs, studios, theaters and art-making spaces in the Center for the Arts to the UB and local communities.

Support from the UB RENEW Institute was key in researchers landing three new grants totaling over $2.6 million.

The advancement involving manganese trichloride “opens the floodgates to a whole new area of research,” says lead scientist David Lacy.

Faculty member Mark Shepard’s new book examines the entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power.

The new director reflects on his first few months in the position and the future of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars program.

Racial/ethnic disparities in pain prevalence are much greater than previously thought, according to the Department of Sociology's Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk.

The Department of History's David Herzberg says the new approach could save thousands of lives if political opposition doesn’t derail it.

Zurek is a professor of chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, and an adjunct faculty member in physics and in chemical and biological engineering. Her research uses supercomputers and first-principles calculations to study the electronic structure, properties and reactivity of a wide variety of materials.

The Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies will recognize the 50th anniversary of women’s studies at UB with a two-day conference titled “Visionaries and Troublemakers: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 50” on Oct. 28 and 29.

“I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality,” an exhibition that explores how the concept of hospitality has affected our understanding of the human body, will open in November at the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts and the UB Anderson Gallery.

The Biden administration is tackling the opioid crisis through harm reduction, a new approach to the nation’s drug policies that UB drug policy historian David Herzberg says could save thousands of lives if political opposition doesn’t derail it.

The NSF-funded project aims to reduce online fraud among older adults, who lose billions of dollars each year. David Castillo, professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, is a member of the team working on the project.