News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Distinguished Dutch, Irish, African-American Architects and Planners to Speak at UB School's Annual "Atelier"
    2/20/04
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has announced events planned for "Atelier '04," its annual celebration of student work to be held March 5 and 6 at various venues.
  • Video Clip Stresses Importance of Computer Security with Two Students "Caught in the Act"
    2/20/04
    The goal was simple: To raise student awareness about computer security issues. The details, however, were a little more complicated. The result is "Caught in the Act," a two-minute video clip that delivers the intended message about a serious subject in a humorous -- but still effective -- way.
  • Prize-Winning Canadian Political Novelist Austin Clarke to Speak at UB
    2/20/04
    One of Canada's best-known political novelists, Austin Clarke, author of "The Polished Hoe," a sensual, hypnotic work about the pain and social hatred resulting from colonialism, will speak at the University at Buffalo on March 3 as a guest of the Department of African American Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB Center to Co-Sponsor Student Cisco Networkers' Conference
    2/19/04
    The third annual Student Cisco Networkers' Conference for area high school students and adult learners will be held March 19 at the City Campus of Erie Community College. The day-long event will be co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo, the UB Center for Applied Technologies in Education (CATE) and Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • Advancing Law School Diversity To Be Focus of Panel Discussion
    2/19/04
    Experts who participated in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on affirmative action in law school admissions will be joined by leading scholars of diversity in higher education for the 2004 Mitchell Lecture of the University at Buffalo Law School. This panel discussion will examine innovative proposals for enhancing diversity in American law schools.