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UB Center for the Arts Announces Spring 2026 Season Featuring Something for Everyone 1/21/26
The region’s premier multidisciplinary arts hub, announces its spring 2026 season, featuring music programming that spans jazz, indie and folk rock, along with special events that bring the best in arts and entertainment to Western New York.
New insight into light–matter thermalization could advance neutral-atom quantum computing 1/21/26
Simulation of Rydberg arrays inside optical cavity shows photons and atoms don’t always rapidly settle at same temperature and destroy quantum information.
UB’s international design competition exhibition opens Jan. 28 1/21/26
Over the past several months, seven teams of architects and consultants from around the world have been developing their entries for The Resilient Campus.
Siwei Lyu named director of Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 1/21/26
SUNY Distinguished Professor is a leading expert on deepfakes and mitigating misinformation online.
UB pharmacy professor develops AI model to predict hospitalization of at-risk cardiac patients 1/20/26
Structured, patient-reported survey data accurately predicts hospital admissions and 90-day readmissions.
Resolutions for a healthier new year? Don’t forget your oral health 1/16/26
Dental school’s Marcelle Nascimento discusses best ways to protect your teeth and gums.
Study: Cigarette filters are an underestimated source of microplastic pollution 1/16/26
Filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.
Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips 1/16/26
Two studies have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well utilized and provide critical, lifesaving services to high-risk individuals.
Northeast College and UB announce new educational partnership 1/15/26
Students will advance to Northeast’s Doctor of Chiropractic program, allowing them to reduce overall time to degree completion.
Study highlights link between hostile racism and suicide risk in young Black adults 1/13/26
Work suggests that hostile racism associated with a 15% increase in suicide ideation, and 13% increase in suicide attempts.
UB scientist awarded $50,000 for acute respiratory distress syndrome research 1/13/26
The grant, from SUNY’s Technology Accelerator Fund, will help advance treatments for life-threatening lung condition.
'Recognize and remove' is key to detecting, managing concussions among youth, say new guidelines for parents and coaches 1/12/26
Researchers around the world including UB's John Leddy have developed an easy-to-follow guide so parents and coaches can recognize concussions in young athletes and respond appropriately.
Annahita Ball and Yunju Nam named SSWR fellows 1/12/26
The fellowship honors scholars who advance research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy, and promotes a diverse, equitable and just society.
State DOT workers ‘upskilling’ with UB engineering courses 1/12/26
Employees are taking graduate level courses in engineering management, bridge engineering.
Understanding how telomere length affects disease risk later in life 1/9/26
Five-year NIH-funded study will examine how early-life factors such as growth patterns and exposure to air pollution affect an important marker of biological aging from birth to young adulthood.
Charting the work of Black women writers and choreographers 1/6/26
Nicole Morris Johnson’s new book examines various frameworks and why they prove to be an inadequate approach for examining women’s creative expression.
Heidi Julien receives lifetime achievement award from Association for Information Science and Technology 1/5/26
Merit award recognizes professor’s numerous contributions to information science field.
Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, first GreenDrill study finds 1/5/26
Core samples pulled from beneath ice sheet suggests region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our current interglacial period.
New scholarship to support Lafayette High School students interested in architecture 1/5/26
UB’s School of Architecture and Planning and SOM Foundation form new scholarship named after Gordon Bunshaft.
UB is part of joint $17 million NIH grant to study temporomandibular disorders 1/5/26
Dental medicine, medicine and philosophy professors collaborate on multi-institution project.

UB News Center

UB Center for the Arts Announces Spring 2026 Season Featuring Something for Everyone 1/21/26

New insight into light–matter thermalization could advance neutral-atom quantum computing 1/21/26

UB’s international design competition exhibition opens Jan. 28 1/21/26

Siwei Lyu named director of Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 1/21/26

UB pharmacy professor develops AI model to predict hospitalization of at-risk cardiac patients 1/20/26

Resolutions for a healthier new year? Don’t forget your oral health 1/16/26

Study: Cigarette filters are an underestimated source of microplastic pollution 1/16/26

Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips 1/16/26

Northeast College and UB announce new educational partnership 1/15/26

Study highlights link between hostile racism and suicide risk in young Black adults 1/13/26

UB scientist awarded $50,000 for acute respiratory distress syndrome research 1/13/26

'Recognize and remove' is key to detecting, managing concussions among youth, say new guidelines for parents and coaches 1/12/26

Annahita Ball and Yunju Nam named SSWR fellows 1/12/26

State DOT workers ‘upskilling’ with UB engineering courses 1/12/26

Understanding how telomere length affects disease risk later in life 1/9/26

Charting the work of Black women writers and choreographers 1/6/26

Heidi Julien receives lifetime achievement award from Association for Information Science and Technology 1/5/26

Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, first GreenDrill study finds 1/5/26

New scholarship to support Lafayette High School students interested in architecture 1/5/26

UB is part of joint $17 million NIH grant to study temporomandibular disorders 1/5/26