Students and faculty work to extract lichen DNA in the Coalesce: Center for Biological Art lab.

UB is one of the few places in the world where there's a combination of art and the life sciences! Students are working with Solon Morse and SUNY Distinguished Professor Paul Vanouse with the Department of Art to extract DNA from lichen in the Coalesce Center for Biological Art! 
Photographer: Douglas Levere

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“The timing of the decision...was unfortunate and even cruel...American families were still being matched with children as the decision was being made to end foreign adoptions.”

Newsweek quotes Kristin Stapleton, professor and chair of the Department of History, in an article about pressure on President Biden to get adopted children out of China. 

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