News Releases

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

  • National Science Foundation Selects UB Professor Who Models Internet Switches to Receive Early Career Development Award
    4/16/04
    Hung Q. Ngo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a theory for the design and analysis of ultra-fast optical switches.
  • High-Fat Fast-Food Breakfast Produces Rush of Inflammatory Factors into Blood Stream, UB Study Finds
    4/16/04
    A breakfast of Egg McMuffin and hash browns may taste good, but its high-fat, high-carbohydrate content wreaks havoc in the body's blood vessels, University at Buffalo endocrinologists have found.
  • Estrogen Alone Provides No Overall Benefit to Postmenopausal Women, Complete Analysis of WHI Trial Shows
    4/15/04
    Results of the clinical trial of estrogen supplementation for postmenopausal women who have had a hysterectomy, an arm of the Women's Health Initiative, show there is no overall health benefit to taking the hormone.
  • Conference to Focus on Fabrication of Public Opinion in an Era of Concentrated Media Ownership
    4/15/04
    "Networks, art and collaboration," a conference that will look at the many means of dissent devised by media artists, theorists, activists and critics, and consider their long-term goals in the face of global media consolidation will be held April 24 and 25 at the University at Buffalo.
  • Work on Promising Inorganic Blood Substitute to Move Forward with $1.5 Million Grant from NIH
    4/15/04
    A patient who is losing large amounts of blood presents a medical emergency, requiring proper blood-typing and immediate access to multiple units of compatible blood. Health workers must hope that a transfusion doesn't add to the emergency and that the patient has no objection to receiving blood products. Then there are the cost and logistics of maintaining large stocks of blood at the ready. The solution to these problems may lie in an inorganic compound being developed as a blood substitute at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Plans to Branch-Out Overseas with New Programs and Campuses
    4/15/04
    Faced with possible declines in international-student enrollments due to strict post-9/11 student-visa regulations, the University at Buffalo is among several U.S. institutions reaching out to international students by establishing new programs and campuses on international soil.
  • Four Students Win J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards
    4/15/04
    Four students at the University at Buffalo will receive the J. Scott Fleming Merit Awards for leadership and volunteer efforts that promote student involvement and the student experience.
  • $1.1 Million Volkswagen Foundation Grant Supports Medical Ontology Institute Founded by UB Philosopher
    4/14/04
    SUNY Distinguished Professor Barry Smith, Ph.D., Julian Park Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, has received a $1,124,000 grant from the Volkswagen Foundation to continue support of the Buffalo-Leipzig Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (INFOMIS) through 2007.
  • To Boost Bellevue Residents' Response to Public Health Surveys, UB Researchers Sponsor Educational Sessions
    4/14/04
    For years, residents living in the Bellevue section of Cheektowaga have wondered if something in their environment contributes to an increased incidence of disease in their neighborhood. University at Buffalo researchers, working with the New York State Department of Health, hope finally to be able to answer that question by year's end, but first they say they need more residents to fill out and return to them important 10-page surveys.
  • Family Treatment Emphasizing Communication, Skill-Building May Reduce Chances of At-Risk Children Becoming Substance Abusers
    4/12/04
    Preliminary results of a comprehensive program to prevent children from using alcohol or other drugs shows that a family-treatment approach emphasizing communication and skill-building may be effective in reducing the risk of children becoming substance abusers, according to researchers from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.