News Releases

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

  • UB Law Alumni to Honor Six at Annual Dinner
    4/9/04
    Five graduates of the University at Buffalo Law School will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards for their contributions to the legal profession and community at the 42nd annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner to be held at 6 p.m. April 28 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • NBC's Tim Russert to Speak at UB on April 21
    4/9/04
    Tim Russert, senior vice president of NBC News and producer and moderator of "Meet the Press," will deliver the final lecture in the 2003-04 Distinguished Speaker Series of the University at Buffalo at 8 p.m. April 21 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Noted Structural Engineer Jane Wernick to Lecture at UB School of Architecture and Planning on April 12
    4/8/04
    Noted structural engineer Jane Wernick, best known in the United States for the Millennium Wheel -- the 40-story Ferris wheel that is not only an engineering feat of no small proportions, but a new landmark on the London skyline -- will speak at the University at Buffalo on April 12 as part of the 2003-04 lecture series sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • 3 UB Faculty Members Named SUNY Distinguished Professors
    4/8/04
    Three University at Buffalo faculty members -- Philip Thomas LoVerde, Barry Smith and Tsu-Teh Soong -- have been named SUNY Distinguished Professors by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
  • UB Announces Enhancement of Bioinformatics Center, Seven New Units Join Core Bioinformatics Component
    4/7/04
    The University at Buffalo today announced it is adding seven new units to the core component of bioinformatics to enhance its Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
  • Miramax Establishes Diversity Film Scholarships for New York State Residents
    4/7/04
    Miramax Films, the independent film company founded by Co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has generously established a $50,000 scholarship fund to support qualified New York State students from diverse backgrounds entering the Master of Arts in the Humanities/ Film and Performance Program at the University at Buffalo.
  • Novel Animal Model of Tinnitus, New Grant, Propel UB Researchers Forward in Search for Tinnitus Treatment
    4/6/04
    A novel rat behavioral model of tinnitus that will allow researchers to study this debilitating condition in a manner never before possible and to test potential treatments has been developed by researchers with the University at Buffalo's Center for Hearing & Deafness.
  • Architectural Superstar Peter Zumthor is UB's 2004 Visiting Clarkson Chair in Architecture
    4/6/04
    Switzerland is widely recognized as one of today's most important centers of modern architectural thought and Peter Zumthor, the 2004 Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University at Buffalo, has produced works that are among his nation's major achievements.
  • Goldhagen to Deliver Architecture Lecture
    4/6/04
    Sarah Goldhagen, author of an influential and myth-busting book on Louis Kahn, one of the most important architects to emerge in the decades after World War II, will present the final talk in the 2003-04 Lecture Series of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Paleontologists Use Computer to "Morph" Deformed Fossils Back to Their Original Shapes
    4/6/04
    It's bad enough that fossils, buried deep in layers of rock for thousands or millions of years, may be damaged or missing pieces, but what really challenges paleontologists, according to University at Buffalo researchers, is the amount of deformation that most fossils exhibit. That's why a UB researcher and her colleagues are working on a computational method to morph fossils back to their original shapes by calculating and excising the deformation.