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The social scientist and Department of Environment and Sustainability faculty member is among the 2026 recipients of the highly selective $800,000 “genius grants.”

SUNY Empire Innovation Professor Sophie Nowicki is an internationally known ice sheet scientist and climate modeler.

UB physicists led research that found a mathematical solution showing how a frustrated quantum magnet can transition to behavior resembling that of a black hole.

UB is No. 40 among the nation’s best public universities and 85th overall, which includes both public and private universities.

A UB-led study reveals that a molecule’s unusual binding strategy causes a target protein to change shape, offering a new approach to drug design.

In University Communications’ Driven to Discover podcast, psychology professor Shira Gabriel delves into our fundamental need to belong.

‘Breaking News’ is the theme of this year’s Buffalo Humanities Festival, a two-day event Sept. 25-26 that will feature award-winning journalist Juan González.

Research Experience for Undergraduates program uses Western New York as a living laboratory to explore climate, atmospheric and geological challenges.

Joseph Basalla researches how FOXG1’s flexible regions and the tiny droplets they form may help regulate gene expression.

The Department of Theatre and Dance is launching its Mobile Shakespeare Lab and taking a reimagined production of “Macbeth” to venues around Buffalo.