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Where code meets composition! 💻 🎶

#UBuffalo student Matt Domzalski blends the precision of computer science with his passion of music—bridging two majors that may seem worlds apart.

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UB launches Horns Up for Hope The monthlong food and winter clothing drive supporting local community members in need runs through Dec. 5.

Bulls give back 💙 #UBuffalo's Horns Up for Hope is campus wide effort to collect food and winter clothing to support the #BuffaloNY community 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Learn more 🔽

Mother-daughter project seeded during pandemic blooms into ‘untamed garden’ UB professor Claire Schen and her daughter Maddy Cherr's visual essay focuses on the mental toll of the pandemic and its lasting effects on students.

The “Untamed Garden” of post-pandemic growth 🌷🍃

In a new American Historical Review visual essay, #UBuffalo historian Claire Schen and her daughter, illustrator Maddy Cherr, reflect on teaching, learning and resilience in the long shadow of COVID-19.

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Study links climate anxiety to social media use Climate doom, the belief that climate change will cause societal breakdowns, predicts support for radical actions, according to study.

How does social media amplify our fears about climate change? 📱🌿

A new #UBuffalo study led by Holly Jean Buck explores how online engagement can fuel “climate doom” — and what that means for mental health and environmental action.

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The human side of AI. 💬🧠

Adjunct linguistics professor Rohini Srihari joins Driven to Discover to explore how AI supports communication, mental health, migration insights and creativity.

UB grant brings cutting-edge spatial audio to Slee The new Meyer sound system positions the Department of Music at the forefront of immersive composition and performance technology.

#UBuffalo just leveled up sound design! 🎼🔊

The new Slee B1 lab features a 22-channel Meyer sound system and a rare Nadia processor (1 of 12 worldwide). Students can now craft spatial audio like that used in stadiums, concerts and the Lincoln Center!

UB’s ice sheet research featured in new documentary “The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice” looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath the ice sheet that was stored at the university for many years.

#UBuffalo research goes cinematic! 🎥🏔️

Elizabeth Thomas from the Dept. of Earth Sciences and her team uncover a once-vegetated landscape beneath the Greenland ice sheet—now featured in the new documentary titled The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice.

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Henshue named inaugural SUNY fellow for sustainability Henshue and the 10 other fellows will assist SUNY faculty in incorporating climate and sustainability topics into existing courses.

Congrats to Nick Henshue in the #UBuffalo Dept. of Environment and Sustainability on being named one of SUNY's inaugural Sustainability Faculty Fellows!

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U.S. News Best Colleges rankings place UB 36th among public universities The university is tied for No. 36 in the latest U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.

The College of Arts and Sciences has made impressive gains in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings!

Economics moved up 14 spots to No. 52 and psychology moved up nine places to 45th among public universities.

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Costume shop opens doors for student designers Costume shop manager Max Levitt helps showcase student creativity — from concept to curtain.

Behind the scenes, building careers! ✨👗🎭

In the #UBuffalo Department of Theatre and Dance's Costume Shop, students design and construct hundreds of costumes each season under the guidance of alum and assistant professor, Max Levitt.

WNY becomes living lab for students studying climate hazards UB and universities nationwide investigated climate hazards and extreme weather. Over 10 weeks, 15 students worked with UB researchers on projects tackling the complex challenges of global climate cha...

This summer, #UBuffalo students turned WNY into a climate lab!

With guidance from professor Sophie Nowicki, 15 students studied Lake Erie ice, shoreline erosion and past climate shifts, tackling challenges facing the Great Lakes and beyond.

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Tripathi to step down as UB president The longest-serving president to lead UB since it joined the SUNY system in 1962 will step down next July and return to his faculty role in the engineering school.

After 14-plus years, UB President Satish K. Tripathi has announced he will step down in July 2026. As the longest-serving president of UB since it joined the SUNY system in 1962, Tripathi helped cement #UBuffalo as a premier public research university. Learn more ⬇️

We’re excited to welcome new #UBuffalo faculty this fall!

⚖️ Sojung Lim - Korean Studies and Sociology and Criminology
⚛️ Jamir Marino - Physics
🌎 Eric Sandvol - Earth Sciences
📚 Genie JH Yoo - History

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Shaping climate education through the humanities A collaboration between the sciences and the humanities at UB has led to an innovative way to share important climate change information.

#UBuffalo is bringing climate science to the stage! 🌎🎭🌿

Faculty in the Departments of Environment and Sustainability (EVS) and Theatre and Dance are using theatre to spark big conversations about climate change and resilience.

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🗓️ Mark your calendars!
The 2025 Buffalo Humanities Festival is Sept. 19–20.
This year’s theme: Fabrication — from creativity & craft to deception & truth.

🔵 Sept. 19: An Evening with Nick Cave
🔵 Sept. 20: Panels & talks at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Register ➡️ buffalohumanities.org

UB research driving comprehensive educational reform in Nigeria A Spencer Foundation Vision Grant awarded to UB professor Ndubueze Mbah is already producing tangible results.

Transforming education in Nigeria! 🌍

#UBuffalo associate professor Ndubueze Mbah received a $75,000 Spencer Foundation Vision Grant that will help create 260 project-based “Smart Green Schools" in the Enugu State of Nigeria.

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YouTube video by #UBuffalo | Arts and Sciences Welcome from Dean Jeff Grabill

A warm welcome from Dean Jeff Grabill 💙🦬

He kicks off the new year with a message full of excitement for the ideas, connections and discoveries ahead at #UBuffalo.

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Congrats to Kristin Poinar, UB Earth Sciences, on receiving the 2025 NSF CAREER Award! 🏔️🧊

Her project uses AI to make ice sheet models faster and more accurate, helping predict sea-level rise.

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We now have the math to describe ‘matrix tides’ and other complex wave patterns A UB study characterizes two-dimensional wave patterns, such as the undular bores seen in a Chinese river, that move along two directions.

Checkerboard waves? 🌊 They’re called matrix tides.

UB math professor Gino Biondini and his team used simulations to crack the code behind these rare patterns—revealing nature’s hidden rhythms.

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The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to be able to offer AI-focused degrees this fall!

Multimillion-dollar grant will help UB project ice sheet loss, sea level rise The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

#UBuffalo Professor Sophie Nowicki was awarded $2.1M to lead ISMIP7—a global project combining ice sheet, ocean and climate models to better predict sea-level rise.

100+ scientists are working together to understand how fast Antarctica and Greenland are melting, and what that means for our coasts.

No matter where you look, #UBuffalo shines through. 💙📸

UB again ranks among nation’s best in sustainability measures UB excels in Times Higher Education's rankings of global health, climate action and sustainability research.

#UBuffalo has been named a global leader in sustainability in the 2024 Times Higher Ed Impact Rankings — recognized for advancing climate action, clean energy, and responsible consumption. 🌎💙

Six UB students receive Fulbright awards The students join the university's long history of sending students to take part in the prestigious program.

Six #UBuffalo Arts and Sciences students are headed abroad with Fulbright awards! 🌍✈️

They’ll teach, research and study across the globe—from Austria to Jordan, Taiwan to the Canary Islands.

Congrats to James, Olivia, Laibah, Jaden, Constance and Taylor!

UB student awarded NASA fellowship to map biodiversity in South Africa Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Congrats to #UBuffalo PhD student Festus Adegbola, studying Geography with a concentration in Earth Systems Science, on earning the prestigious NASA FINESST Fellowship! 🌍🚀

He is using remote-sensing tech to study biodiversity from above, and now has NASA’s support to keep going.

If you're working on a new energy technology and want to learn how to bring it to market, consider applying for the NSF I-Corps Energy Innovators Course, running from August 18 to September 17! ⚡🔌 💡

Apply today: www.tfaforms.com/5172906

There is still time to sign up for one of our Summer Session M classes (Jul 8 - Aug 15)!

We are offering Intro to Microeconomics, Macroeconomic Theory, and Econometrics I.

Check out pub.hub.buffalo.edu for more info!

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White named artistic director of Clarion Concerts The award, given every three years, is presented to only a handful of scholars.

Grammy-winning violinist and #UBuffalo music professor Melissa White is the new artistic director of Clarion Concerts!🎻

She’s bringing fresh energy to classical music—highlighting Black composers, launching school outreach, and creating hands-on opportunities for students.

Study reveals ‘switch-like’ behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease The award, given every three years, is presented to only a handful of scholars.

#UBuffalo researchers found nearly 500 human genes that act like light switches—either fully on or off! 💡🧬

Led by Omer Gokcumen, Alber Aqil & Naoki Masuda, the study blends math + biology to uncover genetic patterns linked to fertility, COVID-19, cancer & more.

We're so proud of Emery! A rockstar legal studies major in our Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program. 🤩

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