BUFFALO, N.Y. – New York State’s highest-ranking judge will be the keynote commencement speaker for the State of New York’s only SUNY-system law school.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bill McKibben, author of a groundbreaking book on global warming and founder of the global grassroots climate action campaign 350.org, will deliver the 2013 commencement address for UB’s School of Architecture and Planning on Friday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Former University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will receive the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, the university’s highest honor, during UB’s 167th general commencement on May 12.

Leading environmental citizens from Western New York will meet at the University at Buffalo on May 8 for an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshop devoted to leveraging community participation as a tool for monitoring the environment.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lead cast members of the national touring cast of the musical “Jersey Boys” and high school students competing in a battle of the bands will meet with media at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at the University at Buffalo North Campus to promote the “BAND Against Bullying” multi-school music and arts competition to raise awareness of bullying-related issues and anti-bullying education efforts.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A team of five MBA students from the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $2,000 prize as winner of the school’s seventh annual Steven C. Verney MBA Case Competition.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo Police today charged a dormitory student with arson, reckless endangerment and other crimes following Thursday’s fire in Spaulding Quad on UB’s North Campus.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Some 4,818 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo’s 167th general commencement and 14 other commencement ceremonies to be held May 3 through May 18.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The courts may have weighed in (no pun intended) on New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on supersized soft drinks, but science has not. That’s why University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Leonard H. Epstein, PhD, has established a large-scale, Internet-based experimental grocery store to develop evidence-based science about how people decide what to buy.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A protein complex found in human breast milk can help reverse the antibiotic resistance of bacterial species that cause dangerous pneumonia and staph infections, according to new University at Buffalo research.