• An innovative approach to creative practice
    8/1/25

    Art professor Mark Böhlen is blending art and AI to comment on the cultural context we live in.

  • Overcoming the food insecurity-obesity paradox
    7/31/25

    Participants are being sought for a UB clinical trial that aims to improve the health of participants by changing how they metabolize food.

  • Engineering researchers develop tiny affective robot
    7/30/25

    The robot, named Bartholomew, can express dynamic facial emotions in response to human tactile handling.

  • UB summit drives collaboration, economic opportunity
    7/30/25

    “Bridging the Gap” focused on building a stronger, more coordinated semiconductor ecosystem across NYS.

  • Bartholomew elected to American Law Institute
    7/29/25

    The institue is the leading independent organization in the U.S. dedicated to producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law.

  • UB announces lineup for speakers series
    7/29/25

    Particpants include Admiral James Stavridis, photographer Pete McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko, Pentatonix beatboxer Kevin Olusola and former “Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb.

  • Social Work, NF schools collaborate to teach trauma-informed concepts
    7/28/25

    UB's Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care worked with the school district to train teachers, staff, administrators and, most recently, students.

  • Pharmacy joins UB’s community outreach at Lighthouse clinic
    7/25/25

    Third-year students are working with medical and public health students to assist clients at the free medical clinic.

  • Rising inequality lowering support for higher minimum wage
    7/24/25

    A UB study finds showing people side-by-side comparisons of different societies can boost support for policies.

  • New tech to improve plastic recycling
    7/24/25

    A review article analyzes the latest methods in plastic recycling guided by process systems engineering approaches, including AI-assisted sorting.

  • Listening well can move you — literally
    7/23/25

    New research identifies high-quality listening as contributing to Kama Muta, the feeling of being “moved by love.”

  • Celebrating 60 years of reading success
    7/22/25

    UB’s Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction has helped thousands of children struggling with reading. 

  • Preparing kids to return to school

    Three hundred backpacks filled with school supplies were handed out to students in grades K-8 on July 26 as part of the fourth annual Jonathan D. Daniels, MD, Memorial School Drive. Before his death in a 2022 house fire, Daniels, associate director of admissions at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a 1998 graduate of the school, had been working to organize a school supply drive to provide tools for success for children in underserved neighborhoods in Buffalo. Photos: Nancy J. Parisi

    Published July 29, 2025

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True Blue: Nick Mendola

These are our people. These are our bonds. Nick Mendola found pride, purpose and lifelong connections at UB — and he’s eternally grateful.

  • In full bloom

    If you need a moment of Zen, you may want to visit Diefendorf Meadow on the South Campus. The flowers are blooming and the pollinators are buzzing — in the meadow and at the nearby Pollinator Lounge. Photo: Douglas Levere

    Published August 1, 2025

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