News Releases

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

  • 2004 Election Should be Close, but Bush May Have a Historical Edge, Says UB Expert on Presidential Campaigns
    9/29/03
    Circumstances leading up to the 2004 presidential election seem to point to another tightly contested race, though probably not the nail-biter of 2000, predicts a University at Buffalo political scientist who studies U.S. presidential campaigns.
  • Program Will Offer Tuition-Free Grants to Doctoral Candidates in Special Education
    9/29/03
    The joint doctoral program in special education offered by the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and Buffalo State College has received a federal grant to fund five students as they work toward a doctorate in special education.
  • CNN's Wolf Blitzer to Speak at UB on Oct. 2
    9/25/03
    CNN news anchor and University at Buffalo alumnus Wolf Blitzer will speak at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus, as part of UB's Distinguished Speaker Series.
  • Consultant on Redevelopment of World Trade Center Site, Designer of Darwin Martin House Visitor Center to be Featured in Lecture Series
    9/25/03
    The School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo has scheduled a lecture series this fall that features an impressive lineup of internationally known and award-winning architects and designers.
  • Studies to Look at Role of Alcohol in HIV Risk in Heterosexual Women, Reducing Drinking-Related HIV Risk in College-Age Women
    9/25/03
    The relationship between drinking and HIV/AIDS in women will be the focus of studies to be conducted under two grants totaling $3.1 million awarded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Additions.
  • Team of Experts in UB's New Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine Targets Puzzling Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome
    9/25/03
    More people die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) each year than from AIDS, breast cancer and lung cancer combined. Yet, because there are few warning signs or symptoms to identify people at risk, scientists know little about the underlying causes. Researchers at the new Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University at Buffalo are poised to change that scenario. Aided by a $1.5 million grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation, the university has assembled a cadre of specialists in several fields who are investigating SCD from the single-cell-level up.
  • School of Public Health and Health Professions Names Dean's Suite in Honor of Founding Dean J. Warren Perry
    9/25/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions has named its dean's suite in honor of J. Warren Perry, founding dean of the former UB School of Health Related Professions.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
    9/24/03
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" on Oct. 16-19 and Oct. 23-26 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Media sponsor for this production is WBFO FM 88.7.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Excerpts from The China Beijing Opera "The Monkey Knows No Walls"
    9/24/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the "Beijing Opera Monkey Troupe" from the International Center of Beijing Opera in Excerpts from The China Beijing Opera "The Monkey Knows No Walls" at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Community Health Network and UB Plan Obesity Conference for Oct. 3
    9/24/03
    Responding to a national and regional problem that has reached epidemic proportions, the Community Health Network of Western New York and the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University at Buffalo are partnering to present a conference on obesity from 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. on Oct. 3 in Michael's Banquet Facility, 4885 Southwestern Blvd., Hamburg.