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  • Zoom image: Granular activated carbon (GAC) filters, like the ones found in home water pitchers, can capture water pollutants like forever chemicals. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ researchers are developing a plasma treatment that will remove forever chemicals from GAC filters so they can potentially be reused.
    What to do with dirty PFAS filters? UB researchers think plasma treatment can make them reusable
    6/2/25

    DoD grant will support project, which aims to remove "forever chemicals" from GAC filters and destroy them.

  • Sign that says "25 Years of Pride. Fruit Belt Fresh. Power & Clean Streets." The sign also contains pictures of fruit, and a phoenix mythical bird.
    Media Advisory: UB and partners to host 25th annual Fruit Belt Clean-A-Thon
    6/4/25

    The event, which takes place Friday, demonstrates how universities and schools can improve neighborhoods that host them.

  • Concept of AI in healthcare featuring a doctor holding out a stethoscope with "AI" on it and healthcare-related icons surrounding it.
    UB launches AI and health science lecture series
    6/4/25

    The initiative kicks off June 10 as scholar Brian Athey will discuss how AI will affect academic health centers.

  • Four women sitting down are: UB's new genetic counseling program was developed by (left to right) Carolyn Farrell, PhD; Lindsey M. Alico, director of the program, Jennifer A. Surtees, PhD; and Norma J. Nowak, PhD.
    UB’s genetic counseling program, the first in SUNY, receives accreditation
    6/5/25

    UB's new Genetic Counseling Graduate Program has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling.

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    Remembrance Conference at UB June 6-8 to focus on gun violence prevention in the medical profession
    6/4/25

    Medical students, educators and researchers will gather at UB this weekend to meet with health care providers, activists and community members to discuss solutions to the gun violence epidemic. 

  • Concept of misinformation featuring a Sisyphus figure rolling a bolder uphill.
    New book explores misinformation’s history, psychology, social impact and potential solutions
    6/6/25

    Misinformation has been around almost as long as people have been communicating with one another, and its effects have been significant throughout history.

  • An illustration of people and a globe and data points and clouds.
    UB to launch Department of AI and Society this fall
    6/10/25

    The department will harness artificial intelligence for the public good, and build upon UB’s longstanding leadership in AI and its role as New York’s flagship university.

  • A person rubs their neck and lower back, concept of chronic pain.
    New, non-opioid molecule acts like a long-lasting anesthetic, relieving chronic pain for three weeks
    6/11/25

    A new molecule acts like a local, long-lasting anesthetic, providing robust pain relief for up to three weeks.

  • Concept of "lightswitch genes" featuring a lit lightbulb with a dna strand as the filiment and a lightswitch in the "on" position.
    Study reveals ‘switch-like’ behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease
    6/18/25

    Most genes express at varying levels, but switch-like genes are only highly expressed or lowly expressed.

  • Cristanne Miller, PhD.
    UB professor emerita receives highest honor from Emily Dickinson society
    6/17/25

    Cristanne Miller, PhD, will receive award later this month in Taiwan.

  • Chi Zhou, pictured in a lab, hold a panel of wheat-straw printed material.
    Wheat straw, a farming byproduct, could soon insulate your home
    6/18/25

    ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½-led team 3D prints the organic material to create green alternative to common fiberglass insulation.

  • A ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ employee plugging a charger into an electric vehicle.
    UB again ranks among nation’s best in measure of global health, climate action and sustainability research
    6/23/25

    THE ranked 2,526 universities from 130 countries or territories based on their progress toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • 3D images of a craniofacial reconstruction.
    UB surgeons use computer-assisted surgery to reduce head size
    6/23/25

    Published paper reveals pros, cons of digital planning in cases of hydrocephalic macrocephaly.

  • Book cover of Struactural Inequalities and Health Outcomes for Chronic Disease by Leonard Egede showing circles with different medical images.
    How structural racism impacts health care is focus of comprehensive textbook edited by UB population health expert
    6/24/25

    New book edited by Leonard Egede takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to explore the structural factors underlying health disparities 

  • Aerial view of Hayes Hall on UB's South Campus.
    UB tops New York State public colleges in QS World ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Rankings
    6/25/25

    In addition to being No. 1 in the state, UB ranks 33rd among all public institutions in the U.S.

  • Mark Gottdiener pictured with a large city in the background.
    New book by UB researcher turns urban sociology on its head
    6/25/25

    Disheartened by what he saw yet encouraged by the possibilities of sharing a new perspective, Gottdiener started down a path to shift the ideological focus of urbanism away from its historically singular focus on large cites.

  • Zoom image: ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ PhD student Festus Adegbola stands in front of NASA’s G-III research aircraft. He is using airborne imagery collected from this aircraft to study bird diversity in South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region. Photo: Adam Wilson
    UB student awarded NASA fellowship to map biodiversity in South Africa
    6/27/25

    Festus Adegbola’s work on BioSCape project monitors how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

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