News Releases

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

  • UB Researchers Use Virtual Reality to Treat Car-Accident Survivors Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress
    10/30/03
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo have developed a virtual-reality driving simulator that may help car-accident survivors recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- a prevalent, but commonly untreated, condition associated with serious car accidents.
  • Transcendent Courage and Endurance Are Subjects of "The Will To Live," a New Film to be Introduced at UB
    10/30/03
    A new documentary by Danish director and filmmaker Anne-Gyrithe Bonne, "The Will to Live: A Notebook on Love, Hate and Reconciliation," will be presented, along with one of its subjects, Cambodian-American writer Chanrithy Him, on Nov. 20 at the University at Buffalo.
  • Ponsot to Deliver Silverman Reading
    10/30/03
    Poet Marie Ponsot will deliver the 27th Oscar Silverman Annual Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Alumni Association Seeks Award Nominees
    10/30/03
    The University at Buffalo Alumni Association is accepting nominations for its Celebration of Excellence and Athletic Hall of Fame awards.
  • Department of Theatre and Dance to Present Student Production of "Playboy of the Western World"
    10/29/03
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of "Playboy of the Western World" on Nov. 12-16 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Distinguished UB Scholar and Teacher Honored by Hispanic Network of Western New York
    10/28/03
    Maria S. Horne of Williamsville, an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo who is internationally distinguished for her pedagogical skills and expertise in Ibero-American theater, has received the 2003 Guarionex Award from the Hispanic Network of Western New York in acknowledgement of her leadership and contributions to the Hispanic community.
  • Four UB Faculty Members Honored by SUNY
    10/28/03
    Four University at Buffalo faculty members recently were honored by the State University of New York for significant accomplishments in their respective academic fields.
  • SUNY Trustees Give Simpson Unanimous Approval to be 14th president of University at Buffalo
    10/28/03
    John B. Simpson, Ph.D., today received the unanimous approval of the State University of New York Board of Trustees to be the next president of the University at Buffalo.
  • Six Teams from UB School Of Management Vie for $1,000 in Pricewaterhousecoopers Accounting Competition
    10/28/03
    Six teams from the University at Buffalo School of Management will contend for $1,000 in the first round of the national xTREME Accounting Campus Competition (xACT) sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to be held at 3 p.m. on Nov. 4 in the Jacobs Executive Development Center at 672 Delaware Ave.
  • UB Researchers Show First Evidence of Pharmacogenomic Differences in Patients' Responses to Widely Used MS Drug
    10/28/03
    University at Buffalo researchers using the latest computer-assisted technologies of genetic analysis have shown for the first time how a widely used drug for treating multiple sclerosis -- interferon beta (IFN-beta-1a) -- can modulate the expression of particular genes in patients being treated for the disease.