Recent News

The College of Arts and Sciences leads the way in bold inquiry, innovative research and cutting-edge performance and visual arts. Check out some of our recent achievements below.

This Month

UB researchers offer healthy, holiday tips
11/15/22
The Department of Psychology's Mark Seery offer strategies for ensuring your holiday season is healthy, happy and stress-free.
Study provides new understanding of pain disparities
11/15/22
Racial/ethnic disparities in pain prevalence are much greater than previously thought, according to the Department of Sociology's Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk.
McFadden joins UB to lead Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program
11/15/22
The new director reflects on his first few months in the position and the future of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars program.
Exploring uncommon ground shared in a post-truth world
11/15/22
Faculty member Mark Shepard’s new book examines the entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power.
Chemists stabilize hard-to-tame chloride compound
11/15/22
The advancement involving manganese trichloride “opens the floodgates to a whole new area of research,” says lead scientist David Lacy.
UB teams receive federal funding for environmental research
11/15/22
Support from the UB RENEW Institute was key in researchers landing three new grants totaling over $2.6 million.
Shining a light on UB's arts community
11/15/22
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.

Last Month

Harm reduction historic shift in illegal drug policies
11/15/22
The Department of History's David Herzberg says the new approach could save thousands of lives if political opposition doesn’t derail it.
Zurek named fellow of American Physical Society
11/2/22
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.
Conference celebrates 50 years of women’s studies at UB
10/26/22
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.
Connection between body, hospitality focus of UB Art Galleries’ exhibition
10/26/22
“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.
Harm reduction historic shift in illegal drug policies
10/26/22
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.