News Releases

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

  • New Course Lets "Undecided" Students Sample 30 Majors in Arts and Sciences
    3/5/04
    University at Buffalo students who are undecided about a major can "sample" the 30 choices available in UB's College of Arts and Sciences via a new course, "Trends in Arts and Sciences," offered through the college.
  • Political Philosopher Goodin to Speak in Baldy Center Seminar Series
    3/5/04
    The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School will continue its Faculty Seminar Series on Institutional Analysis of Law, Politics and Society with a presentation on March 12 by Robert Goodin, a major contemporary political philosopher and theorist.
  • UB Materials Engineer to Receive Outstanding-Research Award from American Carbon Society
    3/5/04
    Deborah D.L. Chung, Ph.D., Niagara Mohawk Professor of Materials Research in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been selected to receive the Charles E. Pettinos Award from the American Carbon Society.
  • To Understand What 'Turns On' Butterfly Wing Colors, UB Biologists Develop the First Transgenic Butterflies
    3/3/04
    University at Buffalo biologists who study butterfly wing patterns have inserted into an African butterfly a marker gene from a jellyfish species, resulting in the first transgenic butterflies that express DNA from another species.
  • Saturday Night Live's Tracy Morgan to perform at UB on April 22
    3/2/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Tracy Morgan at 8 p.m. on April 22 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Bar Characteristics, Women's Behavior in Bars Tied to Their Risk for Bar-Related Aggression
    3/1/04
    Environmental characteristics of bars, as well as women's behavior in bars, influence their risk for bar-related aggression, according to a study conducted by researchers in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • Urban Design Project in UB School of Architecture and Planning Will Showcase a Decade of Work in March Exhibit
    3/1/04
    A graphic and textual record of selected work produced by the Urban Design Project in the UB School of Architecture and Planning will be on display from March 5-27 in the school's James Dyett Gallery on the third floor of Hayes Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • UB Team Develops Simple, Yet Powerful Device that "Sterilizes" Contaminated Air, Eradicating Biological Agents like Anthrax
    2/27/04
    A team of University at Buffalo scientists and engineers has developed a device that in minutes, instead of months, could safely and inexpensively destroy airborne biological agents in buildings as large as the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., which was closed for several months after anthrax was detected there in October 2001.
  • University of Colorado Professor to Head UB Psychiatry Department
    2/24/04
    Steven L. Dubovsky, M.D., professor of psychiatry and medicine and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Insulin Decreases Inflammation, Aids Clot-Busting Drugs in Heart Attack Patients, UB Study Shows
    2/24/04
    Incorporating insulin into the mix of clot-busting and anticoagulation drugs administered to a patient suffering a heart attack significantly lowers the amount of inflammation in the blood vessels following the attack, a response that can improve a patient's chances of survival, a study conducted by researchers from the University at Buffalo has shown.