News Releases

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

  • Michigan St. Baptist Church Directory Coming Home
    2/22/06
    The original directory of the historic Michigan Street Baptist Church, missing for more than 50 years, has been found and will be presented to Michigan Street Preservation Corp. in a ceremony at 6 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 23, 2006) in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 25 Nottingham Ct., Buffalo.
  • DOD Funds National Information Fusion Center
    2/21/06
    A new U.S. Department of Defense-funded center based at CUBRC and the University at Buffalo will provide the U.S. armed forces with critical technologies to enhance major national security initiatives, such as aiding the hunt for weapons of mass destruction and providing accurate intelligence information to support operations and decision-making.
  • UB Engineers Tackle Nanoelectronics Roadblocks
    2/21/06
    University at Buffalo engineers are working to solve two significant roadblocks impeding the creation of smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices.
  • Tutzauer Named Communication Department Chair
    2/17/06
    Frank E. Tutzauer of Buffalo, associate professor in the Department of Communication, School of Informatics, has been appointed chair of the department.
  • UB Saves $21,000 Annually with "Green" Vending Machines
    2/17/06
    The University at Buffalo is leading the way in energy savings as the first university in the country to completely replace its campus-wide beverage vending machines with green technology, saving $21,000 a year on electricity costs.
  • Henderson Receives Hearing Conservation Award
    2/17/06
    Donald Henderson, Ph.D. professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2006 Outstanding Hearing Conservation Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association.
  • Free Saturday Lectures Targeted to High School Students
    2/17/06
    The Cutting Edge Lecture Series, a free series of Saturday-morning seminars in which top University at Buffalo scholars and alumni give presentations aimed at increasing public awareness of the rapid advancements being made in a number of academic and professional fields, will open its 2006 edition on Feb. 25.
  • Auction to Benefit Law Student Fellowships
    2/16/06
    The Buffalo Public Interest Law Program (BPILP) will host its 11th annual auction on Feb. 23 at the Statler Towers, 107 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. The event is the primary fundraiser to provide scholarships allowing University at Buffalo law students to accept unpaid public interest summer positions.
  • Rivoli to Speak as Part of Lippes Speaker Series
    2/16/06
    Pietra Rivoli, Ph.D., author of "The Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy: An Economist Examines Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade" (Wiley Publishers, 2005), will speak at 7 p.m. on March 2 in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Screening Room on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Calcium, Vitamin D Don't Prevent Colorectal Cancer
    2/15/06
    Daily calcium and vitamin D supplements do not lower the risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women as previous studies had suggested, results of the national Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial have shown.