News Releases

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

  • Decision on Crosby Hall Status to be Made by 6 p.m. Sunday
    10/18/02
    A decision on whether Crosby Hall, closed since a steam-pipe accident on Wednesday, will be open on Monday will be made by 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20.
  • Social Antagonisms to be Lecture Topic
    10/18/02
    "The Discursive Construction of Social Antagonisms" will be the topic of the third and last lecture in the College of Arts and Sciences Fall Lecture Series at the University at Buffalo.
  • Human Subject Research to be Topic of Workshop
    10/17/02
    "New Challenges in Human Subject Research: Regulatory Oversight and Conflicts-of-Interest" will be the topic of a workshop set for 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Jacobs Executive Development Center, 672 Delaware Ave.
  • Crosby Hall Closed; University Repairing Damage Resulting from Steam-Pipe Accident on Wednesday
    10/17/02
    The University at Buffalo today began assessing damage in Crosby Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus, where a steam-pipe accident Wednesday afternoon resulted in the death of a 25-year UB employee. Crosby Hall will be closed for classes and other activities at least through Sunday. Students, faculty and staff in the School of Architecture and Planning should call 829-3485 over the weekend for information on Crosby Hall's reopening. The employee who died in the accident has been identified by the university as David L. Shrader, 48, of Eden.
  • Student Accounts Now Payable on the Web
    10/17/02
    UB students now have the option of paying their bills and retrieving their account balances via the Internet. The new secured ePay system accepts credit card payments from Visa, MasterCard and Discover.
  • UB Faculty Member, Six Students Win Fulbright Awards
    10/16/02
    A University at Buffalo faculty member and six recent graduates of the university have received Fulbright grants to lecture and study abroad this semester.
  • Country Musician Randy Travis to Perform Nov. 8 at UB
    10/16/02
    The UB Center for the Arts will present Randy Travis at 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The concert is sponsored by WYRK-FM.
  • Employee Dies in Accident in Crosby Hall
    10/16/02
    A maintenance employee of the University at Buffalo died today in an apparent steam-pipe accident in the basement of Crosby Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus. Following the incident, UB President William R. Greiner announced that Crosby Hall has been closed until further notice. Classes and all activities held in Crosby Hall have been cancelled for Thursday and Friday. Only Crosby Hall has been affected; all other classes and activities on the South Campus will go on as planned.
  • Leadership, Strategy Among New Offerings by UB Center for Executive Development
    10/16/02
    Seminars in leadership, strategy and negotiations, as well as a technical course in computer security, top the list of new professional-development offerings at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Dunnett Awarded Honorary Degree by Mongolian Academy
    10/16/02
    Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for international education and professor of foreign language education in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, recently was awarded an honorary Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the Academy of Management, the Implementing Agency of the Government of Mongolia, during ceremonies at the academy's campus in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.