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  BAAD’s terrorist tracking efforts garner new funding

  UAlbany’s Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) 2 database, which tracks terrorist and insurgent organizations over time, received $280,000 in new funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, through its Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office.

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  Planetary InSight: Scott McLennan reflects on two decades of Mars research

  Stony Brook University Department of Geosciences Distinguished Professor Scott McLennan spent more than 20 years studying the Red Planet and assisting in numerous missions.

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  New study provides more evidence of link between schizophrenia and gut

  Upstate researcher and College of Medicine Dean Julio Licinio co-led the study with a team of international researchers who have been searching for the past five years to show the effect of the microbiome on behavior and the brain.

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  On the land, one-quarter of vertebrates die because of humans

  Humans have a "disproportionate effect" on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent of the deaths among species all over the globe, according to ESF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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  Leading the future of AI: University marries human ingenuity with machines

  Stony Brook University founded the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation to serve as a hub to coordinate and encourage faculty AI research and educational initiatives with a focus on medicine, smart environments and infrastructure.

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  UB scientist to receive inaugural ASPET Early Career Award

  Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, is being recognized by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) with the inaugural JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology.  

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• UB scientist to receive inaugural ASPET Early Career Award

  Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, is being recognized by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) with the inaugural JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology.  

• Hispanic males most likely to have a fatal interaction with police in segregated neighborhoods

  While most media attention seems to focus on the number of black males killed by police, new UB research indicates that among men of color, Hispanic males were two times more likely to have a fatal interaction with the police in neighborhoods that have a high percentage of Hispanic residents.

• RFPs issued for major renewable energy collaboration

  Project aims to create 100 megawatts of on- and off-site renewable energy through consortium that includes UB, the City of Buffalo, Erie County, SUNY Buffalo State and SUNY Erie.

• TCIE project engineer named to robotic technical standard committees

  The representation gives UB an important voice in the global robotics field.

• Alan Rae named director of UB’s Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics

  Rae will cultivate industry collaboration and further grow UB’s expertise and reputation in materials informatics.

• Concussion treatment: Adolescent athletes who were “prescribed” aerobic exercise recovered faster

  The study is the first randomized clinical trial of a treatment in the acute phase after a sport-related concussion.

• Study: Soft drinks, hard work and hot weather are recipe for kidney disease risk

  Study was inspired by recent reports of acute kidney injury among agricultural workers performing manual labor in hot outdoor environments in the U.S.

• In cold waters, sharks’ and fishes’ slowed metabolism may benefit rivals

  A new paper in Science explores a curious trend: why biodiversity among marine mammals and birds generally rises in cold, temperate waters.

• UB to host nation’s first-ever mobile produce market summit

  The two-day conference will invite representatives from mobile produce markets across the U.S. to Buffalo to network, attend training sessions and share their successes and failures.

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