News Releases

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

  • Library To Be Dedicated in Memory of Brent Arcangel
    3/15/04
    The University at Buffalo Office of Career Services will dedicate its newly remodeled career library as the Brent D. Arcangel Career Resource Library at 10 a.m. on March 23 in 259 Capen Hall on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Experience Is More Effective than Classroom Learning in Changing Age Bias in Dental Students, UB Study Finds
    3/13/04
    Results of a program conducted at the University at Buffalo designed to dispel age bias among dental students has confirmed a universal truth: Experience is a more powerful teacher than words.
  • Kweisi Mfume, J.C. Watts to Discuss Affirmative Action in UB'S Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Program
    3/12/04
    This year's Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative program at the University at Buffalo will feature two speakers -- from different sides of the political aisle -- discussing the role of affirmative action in American society.
  • Alumnus' Cross-Country Run to Benefit American Diabetes Association
    3/12/04
    In a bold move -- and for a good cause -- a University at Buffalo alumnus is quitting his job next month to prepare for a cross-country run to raise money and awareness for a disease that has reached near-epidemic proportions in the U.S.
  • Talking Heads Co-Founder David Byrne to Perform in UB Center for the Arts
    3/12/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present David Byrne at 8 p.m. on May 12 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Paroski named 1 of 10 "Women Making History in Erie County"
    3/12/04
    Margaret W. Paroski, M.D., interim vice president for health affairs at the University at Buffalo and interim dean of the UB medical school, has been named one of 10 "Women Making History in Erie County" in conjunction with the observance of March as National Women's History Month.
  • Martha Stewart's High-Profile Retail Strategy May Be Her Brand's Ultimate Undoing, Says UB Retailing Expert
    3/11/04
    Martha Stewart's hands-on, high-profile retailing formula -- once the key to her unprecedented success -- may be her brand's death sentence as the possibility of prison looms in her future, according to a retail-marketing expert at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • National Group Ranks Faculty In UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Among the Nation's Most Productive
    3/11/04
    The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ranks fourth in the U.S. in National Institutes of Health research funding per Ph.D. faculty member, according to the latest report on pharmacy faculty from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
  • Protease-Inhibitor Cocktail Protects, Increases Anti-Microbial Action of Promising New Peptide, UB Oral Biologists Find
    3/11/04
    The anti-microbial activity of promising peptides shown in laboratory studies to kill several medically important fungi, some of which are resistant to current drugs, can be enhanced further by protecting the peptides from enzymes programmed to destroy them, University at Buffalo oral biologists have found.
  • New Peptide Derived from Protein in Saliva may be Promising Antifungal Agent, UB Oral Biologists Find
    3/10/04
    Searching for better treatments for oral infections that plague persons with compromised immune systems, oral biologists at the University at Buffalo have developed a novel peptide that appears to be a good candidate for treating candidiasis and other fungal conditions.