News Releases

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

  • Mehrdad Hadighi's Studio for Architecture Named One of Top 10 Architectural Firms Reshaping the Globe
    12/19/03
    "Studio for Architecture," the architectural design firm of Mehrdad Hadighi, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been recognized by Architectural Record magazine as one of 10 members of its 2003 "Architectural Vanguard" -- "the top young firms reshaping the globe."
  • Award-Winning UB Gifted Math Program Seeks Nominations for Its Fall 2004 Class
    12/19/03
    The University at Buffalo Gifted Math Program is accepting nominations from schools and parents of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students for its Fall 2004 class.
  • Textbooks for Blind Students Come Alive Through the Work of UB Assistive Technology Specialists
    12/19/03
    A standard textbook for primary or secondary school students is a robust learning tool rich with photographs, illustrations, charts, maps: visual images that bring the words to life. Textbooks for blind or visually impaired students are considerably less dynamic. But the learning status quo for these students may be changing as the result of a project completed by assistive technology experts at the University at Buffalo.
  • New Student Recruitment Center Offers Prospective Students a High-Tech View of UB
    12/19/03
    Prospective students now have the opportunity to learn about the University at Buffalo and at the same time the cutting-edge technology available at the university with the opening of the new Student Recruitment Center in the lobby of Capen Hall on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB, Military Collaborate on Design and Testing of First Drug to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
    12/17/03
    Six hundred Marines at Camp Pendleton in California will undergo two weeks of war games in the coming months armed with a new weapon: a drug designed to protect their hearing from the destructive decibels of battle, thanks to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Center for Hearing and Deafness.
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov, One of World's Most Celebrated Dancers, Brings Two Evenings of Solo, Contemporary Dance to UB
    12/16/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Solos with Piano or Not...An Evening of Music and Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pianist Pedja Muzijevic" at 8 p.m. on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Supreme Court's Ruling on McCain-Feingold Will Further Complicate Campaign Financing, Says UB Political Scientist
    12/11/03
    The Supreme Court's majority decision on Wednesday upholding the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act -- better known as the McCain-Feingold law -- was surprising in several respects and will further complicate campaign financing, according to a University at Buffalo political scientist who studies campaign-finance reform.
  • Simpson Names Genco UB's Interim Provost Effective Feb. 1
    12/10/03
    John B. Simpson, president-designate of the University at Buffalo, has named Robert J. Genco, a UB vice provost and SUNY Distinguished Professor, to be the university's interim provost effective Feb. 1, 2004. Simpson also announced the launch of a national search to identify the successor of Elizabeth D. Capaldi, UB's provost, who will become vice chancellor and chief of staff for the State University of New York on Feb. 1.
  • New Book by UB Law Professor Focuses on Making Sense of Globalization
    12/10/03
    A new book by a University at Buffalo law professor attempts to make sense of the debate about whether globalization is a pathway to unprecedented global prosperity or increased poverty, among other benefits and ills.
  • Four UB Law School Alumni Named Among America's Top 50 Black Lawyers
    12/9/03
    Four alumni of the University at Buffalo Law School have been named to Black Enterprise magazine's list of America's Top Black Lawyers.