News Releases

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

  • Homecoming to be Held Oct. 5-9
    9/29/05
    The UB Alumni Association will host a variety of activities during Homecoming Week 2005, to be held Wednesday through Oct. 9 on both the North (Amherst) and South (Main Street) campuses.
  • SUNY Researchers to Discuss Homeland Security Projects
    9/27/05
    Researchers from throughout the State University of New York system will gather to discuss emerging and ongoing research in homeland security at a conference being organized by the University at Buffalo, the University at Albany Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, and Stony Brook University.
  • Participants Sought for Panasci Technology Competition
    9/27/05
    Recent University at Buffalo alumni and UB students with innovative ideas in the technology, life science and engineering industries are being sought as participants in the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).
  • Study Tests New Method to Instill Abstinence after Detox
    9/27/05
    An addiction specialist at the University at Buffalo has received a $1.28 million grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop and test a new program designed to improve abstinence rates after alcohol detoxification.
  • Bush's Approval Ratings Should Improve After Rita
    9/27/05
    President Bush's approval ratings should improve as a result of the federal government's improved disaster response following Hurricane Rita, according to University at Buffalo political scientist James E. Campbell, Ph.D., an expert on presidential politics and election forecasting.
  • Teen Labels Provide Insights into Drug, Alcohol Use
    9/23/05
    The labels that teen-agers use to describe themselves and their peers provide an insight into their drug and alcohol use, according to a study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • Reducing Women's HIV Risk Focus of Study
    9/23/05
    Improving the understanding of women's alcohol use and risky sexual behavior and the impact of alcohol treatment on women's HIV risk behaviors are the goals of research to be conducted under a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • God, Cosmos, Katrina and Rita
    9/23/05
    The desire to assign cosmic significance to the arrival of hurricanes Katrina and Rita is an example of humankind's ages-old need to find reason within chaos, according to University at Buffalo anthropologist Phillips Stevens Jr., Ph.D., a renowned expert on the origins, nature and meaning of cults, superstitions and cultural identities.
  • Symposium Highlights Land, Ecosystem Interaction
    9/22/05
    Effective mitigation of the drastic effects of extreme natural phenomena like hurricanes, floods, landslides and wildfires through integrated environmental management that includes the perspectives of geomorphologists and ecosystem scientists is the focus of the interdisciplinary 36th International Geomorphology Binghamton Symposium to be held Oct. 7-9 at the University at Buffalo.
  • 'Smart Concrete' Could Improve Levees
    9/22/05
    The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials scientist and inventor of "smart concrete."