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  SUNY Optometry Researchers: Bright lights outdoors may help treat ‘lazy eye’ in children

  The new findings open the door for further exploration of new treatments that use natural visual stimuli more effectively to promote healthier visual behaviors, including wearable devices that monitor vision outdoors.

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  Inside the mind of a terrorist

  Gary Ackerman’s research at the University at Albany College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity focuses on understanding how terrorists and other adversaries make tactical, operational and strategic decisions.

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  Facebook posts can predict illnesses, including diabetes, hypertension and depression

  The Stony Brook University researchers looked at language patterns – words, phrases, clusters of related words — and their statistical association with 21 standard categories of medical record diagnoses indicating conditions.

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  National Institutes of Health selects two Upstate students for prestigious Medical Research Scholars

  Christina Marcelus and Daniel Lichtenstein will pause their studies and spend a year conducting research in an area that matches his or her personal interests and research goals. Each will be paired with a full-time NIH investigator as a mentor.

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  SUNY Poly next-gen transistor research featured in Advanced Materials

  Dr. Ji Ung Lee and his research team, whose work, "Schottky–Mott Limit: Gate-Tunable Graphene–WSe2 Heterojunctions at the Schottky–Mott Limit," could lead to better transistors, is featured in Advanced Materials with cover art by student Sam Lagasse.

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  Modifying the genetic blueprint

  Jia Sheng, who is affiliated with the RNA Institute in addition to the University at Albany's Department of Chemistry, received a $600,000 NSF CAREER Award to study the structures and functions of natural ribonucleic acid (RNA) modifications.

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  UB architect’s latest “habitecture” project uses dead tree to give new life to Australian landscape

  Lined with bird shelters and bat boxes, “Life Support” is a living art sculpture that will serve as a functional habitat for a wide variety of bats, birds and reptiles.

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  Building Stronger Communities and Critical Infrastructure With Future-Focused Research

  Changes in local weather patterns caused by a warming planet are posing unforeseen risk to the systems and structures that allow society to function. In New York State, unprecedented flooding in New York City and the Mohawk River Valley heavily damaged transportation systems. Destructive hurricanes in Long Island and the Catskill Mountains destroyed power supplies. […]

• UB architect’s latest “habitecture” project uses dead tree to give new life to Australian landscape

  Lined with bird shelters and bat boxes, “Life Support” is a living art sculpture that will serve as a functional habitat for a wide variety of bats, birds and reptiles.

• Fossil teeth reveal ancient hyenas in the Arctic

  Ice age hyenas may have hunted herds of caribou and horses, or scavenged carcasses of mammoths on a vast steppe-tundra.

• Study underscores role of menthol cigarettes in smoking cessation

  Researchers cite Big Tobacco's marketing stronghold on African American smokers among reasons why this group is 12% less likely to quit.

• Youth drug use trends will compel primary care physicians to keep up

  Improving our understanding of adolescent substance use will help physicians better address the health needs and risk factors in this vulnerable population.

• Study: Many choices seems promising until you actually have to choose

  BUFFALO, N.Y. – People faced with more options than they can effectively consider want to make a good decision, but feel they’re unable to do so, according to the results of a novel study from the University at Buffalo that used cardiovascular measures and fictional dating profiles to reach its conclusions.

• Researchers see stress and trauma in women’s stories about abortion

  A UB-led research team has used public narratives, an increasingly popular form of person-centered advocacy offering a forum for sharing previously untold stories, to study the undue stress experienced by women in relation to abortion.

• UB bio-artist Paul Vanouse wins Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica

  Paul Vanouse, UB professor of art and director of the Coalesce Center for Biological Art, received the Golden Nica award in the Artificial Intelligence and Life Art category of the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica for his interactive work "Labor."

• UB Coalesce receives National Endowment for the Arts grant to enhance artist residency program

  The University at Buffalo Coalesce Center for Biological Art has received an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to enhance the center’s BioArt in the Public Sphere program. 

• UB launches Innovation Hub, a new initiative in downtown Buffalo to boost the startup economy

  The $32 million project will match students, faculty, clinicians, and researchers with a powerful collection of resources to commercialize innovations.

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• Building Stronger Communities and Critical Infrastructure With Future-Focused Research

  Changes in local weather patterns caused by a warming planet are posing unforeseen risk to the systems and structures that allow society to function. In New York State, unprecedented flooding in New York City and the Mohawk River Valley heavily damaged transportation systems. Destructive hurricanes in Long Island and the Catskill Mountains destroyed power supplies. […]

• Water Quality Research Is Helping To Protect Our Public Health

  The numbers tell the story. Although water is the most abundant resource on the planet, just 3% is fresh water, and just 1% of that is available for drinking. It’s clear that water sustainability – the greatest guarantee for its availability – requires responsible and proper management. Our waterways are essential to the many various […]

• Turn Your Ideas into Market Ready Products with the 2019 Technology Accelerator Fund

  Across the SUNY system, there are great minds doing great things in research. New ideas in computer technologies, medical goods, educational resources, and more are being developed by the great minds in SUNY research. Since its launch in April 2011, the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), which is jointly funded by the State University of New […]

• Efforts in SUNY Research and Education are Improving Healthcare Around the World

  Eliminating dengue fever and other devastating tropical diseases, improving healthcare delivery to remote locations, and addressing malnutrition among victims of natural disasters. These are among the many lofty goals of the faculty, staff, and students across the SUNY system whose aim—through their research and education—is to improve human health across the globe. Established in 2015, […]

• Nobel History: A Look Back at the Global Impact Delivered Through SUNY Research & Academics

  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has existed to acknowledge superior contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature, and the cause of peace. This week, the 2018 Nobel Prize announcements are taking place to give us the next set of difference makers in these academic and social fields. Their efforts will most likely be felt for […]

• Two Researchers, Two Colleges, One Invention That Brought Us the Medical MRI

  It can detect a brain tumor, a blocked blood vessel, a kidney infection, or a torn ligament. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most important innovations of the 21st century, benefiting millions of people each year. Did you know that two SUNY researchers were the first to harness MRI technology for use as […]

• Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Help Take Research from Lab to Market

  The life of a researcher is complex. Study, testing, analyzing, and so much more, and that’s just to make the new idea into a project that works. But after that is complete, many want to bring their new ideas to market in hopes of earning some rewards for their hard work. They just often don’t […]

• A Student Invention That Rocks Proves Itself in Business Competition

  Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, a mobile app designed for note taking, organizing, task lists, and archiving, once said the following about entrepreneurship, “There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” When it […]

• Researchers Are Bringing A Virtual Reality To Market That Will Help Improve Lazy Eye

  The creative minds behind SUNY Research do many things that improves the lives of Americans every day. Inventing, designing, and creating new products and resources is hard work, but it’s only the beginning. Those products then need to make it to market somehow to become available to the people they are intending to help. A […]