News Releases

All of the latest news about our university. (by topic)

Forever K-Pop: A Celebration Concert North American Tour Visits UB Center for the Arts
2/2/26
Forever K-Pop – A Celebration Concert brings a next-level, fan-powered tribute experience and high-octane production featuring today’s biggest K-Pop hits to life on stage in a cinematic spectacle unlike anything audiences have seen in a tribute concert before.
How #MeToo led to improved loan access for women
2/2/26
Study links the social movement to changes in lender behavior.
UB awarded federal grant to promote civil discourse
1/30/26
Grant is among a set of similar yet distinct initiatives at 17 institutions of higher education that were awarded roughly $52 million in U.S. Department of Education funding.
Media Advisory: UB School of Dental Medicine hosts 25th annual ‘Give Kids A Smile’
1/30/26
Free event Feb. 6 emphasizes preventative care as part of Children’s Dental Health Month.
Ford Versypt awarded $2.1 million NIH grant to study growth and break-up of tissues
1/27/26
She hopes that the research will allow physicians to better predict how to promote regeneration across different tissue systems in the body.
UB online programs in nursing, engineering management among top 10 nationwide
1/27/26
The rankings, from U.S. News & World Report, highlight the excellence of these innovative educational courses.
UB CMI awards more than $450,000 for 10 faculty-industry manufacturing R&D projects
1/27/26
Innovations include AI-driven ceramics, next generation contact lenses, semiconductors, copper ink and more.
Could swapping a cold one for a cannabis beverage help people drink less?
1/26/26
New UB research suggests using cannabis beverages as a substitute for alcohol could be a novel harm reduction strategy.
UB Center for the Arts Announces Spring 2026 Season Featuring Something for Everyone
1/21/26
The region’s premier multidisciplinary arts hub, announces its spring 2026 season, featuring music programming that spans jazz, indie and folk rock, along with special events that bring the best in arts and entertainment to Western New York.
New insight into light–matter thermalization could advance neutral-atom quantum computing
1/21/26
Simulation of Rydberg arrays inside optical cavity shows photons and atoms don’t always rapidly settle at same temperature and destroy quantum information.