Edward Snell has been named the next chair of the Department of Materials Design and Innovation. He will succeed Krishna Rajan, who has served as the department’s inaugural chair since 2015.

WBEN covered Rep. Tim Kennedy’s recent visit to Buffalo to announce a $1.5 million Department of Energy grant that was recently awarded to a joint Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and UB research project.

Niagara Frontier Publications reported on a $1.5 million grant awarded to a joint Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and UB project that will use artificial intelligence to study how cells and molecules respond to radiation.