News Releases

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

Thousands of students to receive degrees this weekend at UB
5/15/26
Additionally, Satish Tripathi will receive UB’s highest honor, the Norton Medal, as he prepares step down as UB president.
UB to host Marie Curie fellow Ilenia Pittui
5/14/26
Art historian will tap UB’s resources to study Ottoman and Safavid cultures.
UB surgeon endows new lecture series focused on the business of surgery
5/14/26
A new lecture series announced by the Department of Surgery and endowed by one of its longtime faculty members will focus on the business side of being a surgeon.
Buffalo without lake-effect snow? Ancient iceberg scratches reveal a reverse snowbelt
5/13/26
Ice Age wind system may have pushed Great Lakes snowstorms west instead of east.
Thomas Grant awarded Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship
5/12/26
Thomas D. Grant, PhD, assistant professor of structural biology, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship.
AI spots hidden security flaws in hundreds of 5G smartphone models
5/11/26
UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm; leads to work with Apple and Google.
Two UB alumni win 2026 Pulitzers
5/7/26
Sara DiNatale shares the explanatory reporting award with two colleagues at the San Francisco Chronicle and Juliana Spahr of Mills College is this year’s winner for poetry.
UB to offer the world’s first doctorate in applied ontology
5/6/26
The new PhD program, and a master’s launched last year, are the only graduate level applied ontology degrees in the world, filling a critical need in a burgeoning field.
Study: To combat the youth vaping epidemic, AI can help determine cessation strategies that will work best
5/6/26
UB cancer researchers published a study on why young people vape, and used AI to determine the best ways to get them to stop.
UB launches WNY Long COVID Resource Center
5/6/26
To improve the care experience for patients by educating and engaging their providers, a multidisciplinary team of University at Buffalo researchers is launching the online WNY Long COVID Resource Center,