News Releases

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

  • House Designed to Permit "Aging in Place"
    6/22/05
    A home designed by a University at Buffalo architect and based on universal design so that it is accessible and convenient to use by everyone, including people with disabilities, is being featured in this year's Horizons Home Show sponsored by the Buffalo Niagara Builders Association.
  • 36 Graduate from CEL Program at UB
    6/22/05
    Thirty-six Western New York business owners, operators and high-level managers have graduated from the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Core Program in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • 10 at UB receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
    6/22/05
    Six faculty members, three professional staff members and one librarian at the University at Buffalo have received 2005 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence from former SUNY Chancellor Robert L. King.
  • Stream Restoration and Design Workshops To Be Offered By UB
    6/15/05
    The streams of Western New York are a workshop this summer for biologists, ecologists, engineers and environmental planners who want to learn techniques for restoring inland waterways to their natural state.
  • UB Center for the Arts to Present Technical Theater Program for High School, College Students and Adults
    6/14/05
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will hold a Technical Theater Program designed for high school students, college students and adults Aug. 15-17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Never Underestimate the Power of Narrative -- the Emerging Portrait of a Dastardly America Could Cost Us Dearly
    6/14/05
    History is replete with "black legends," conflations of truth, myth and bad press that have caused individuals, families, and whole nations to have what English poet and dramatist John Dryden called "a name to all succeeding ages curst." The term "Black Legend" originated as a reference to the world-wide loathing of Spain during its conquest of the New World, but an expert in the production of such cultural narratives says history, in one sense, may be repeating itself.
  • 10 UB Employees Buy Homes Through UCI Loan Program
    6/14/05
    After getting off the ground less than two years ago, the University at Buffalo's Home Loan Guaranty Program has helped 10 UB employees buy homes in the University Heights neighborhood.
  • Research to Focus on Role of Emotions in Alcohol Use, Abuse and Relapse
    6/13/05
    The role of negative emotions in alcohol use, abuse and relapse will be the focus of a study by Paul R. Stasiewicz, Ph.D., a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), under a $1,937,729 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
  • UB Professor Authors Page-Turner on Toronto Medical Scandal
    6/13/05
    A University at Buffalo physician has turned the inside story of a medical brouhaha in Canada, involving sick children, a controversial treatment for the blood disorder thalassemia and the pharmaceutical company that makes it, into a nonfiction best-seller.
  • Yvonne Dion-Buffalo, American Studies Faculty Member
    6/13/05
    Yvonne Dion-Buffalo, visiting assistant professor in the Department of American Studies in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, died Saturday (June 11, 2005) of cancer in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.