May

A new study identifies gaps in data on streams around the world, highlighting potential priorities for future installation of monitoring tools. The research looks at stream gauges — instruments that record the volume of water flowing through a specific location on a river or stream.

You may not have known Harumo Sato during her time at UB, but if you are a frequent visitor to One World Café, you will know her work. The same goes for Tayron Lopez, who graduates from UB this spring but not without leaving behind his mark.

A UB-led study examines how improved communication can support efforts to increase recycling in New York State and the rest of the United States.

A new book by a UB historian examines the largely unexplored ways in which utopian thinking became a model for civil rights activists and provided the foundation for a worldview that informed the work of people who would later emerge as key figures in the long movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., Pauli Murray, Father Divine and Howard Thurman.

Seven UB students and alumni have won Fulbright awards, the prestigious national scholarship competition for grants to study, research and teach abroad, a success rate equaling UB’s best-ever year for these “global citizen” Fulbright scholars.

Paul Dewan Jr., Krish Patel and Meghan Sullivan were selected to receive the prestigious scholarship that is awarded to sophomores and juniors who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue advanced degrees in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.

New UB research examining the relationship between behavior and health outcomes in China suggests that education and wealth are not necessarily tied to better health, in contrast to what studies have found in many Western countries. In some cases, higher socioeconomic status in China is associated with similar — or even worse — health outcomes.