News Releases

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

  • Le Ballet National du Senegal to Perform Traditional Dances of West Africa on Nov. 7
    10/16/02
    The UB Center for the Arts will continue the 2002-03 KeyBank Dance Series with Le Ballet National du Senegal at 8 p.m. on Nov 7 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Media sponsors for The KeyBank Dance Series are WGRZ-TV Channel 2 and WJYE 96.1-FM.
  • Coetzee to Give Butler Chair Prose Reading on Oct. 17
    10/16/02
    Award-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee, a UB faculty member from 1968-71, will deliver the Edward H. Butler Chair Prose Reading at 8 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Section of Ellicott Creek Trailway to be Closed
    10/11/02
    The Ellicott Creek Trailway adjacent to the UB North (Amherst) Campus will be closed between St. Rita's Lane and John James Audubon Highway from 6 p.m. on Oct. 18 until the morning of Oct. 19.
  • Workshop on Funding Community Development Projects to be Sponsored by UB Law School
    10/11/02
    Obtaining funding for community development projects and programs will be the subject of a workshop on Oct. 17 and 18 to be sponsored by UB's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the UB Law School Development Clinics.
  • Political and Cultural Consequences of Incarceration to be Topic of Baldy Center Conference
    10/11/02
    One of the nation's most influential historians and political interpreters of the African-American experience will present the keynote address as part of a conference on the effects of incarceration on individual constitutional rights to be sponsored by the UB Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
  • Lerup to Deliver Clarkson Chair Lecture at UB
    10/11/02
    Lars Lerup, dean of the Rice School of Architecture and William Ward Watkin Professor at Rice University, will discuss "Suburbia mon amor" on Oct. 30 in Crosby Hall as the Fall 2002 Clarkson Visiting Chair in the School of Architecture and Planning.
  • William R. Greiner to Receive Jaeckle Award from UB Law School, UB Law Alumni Association
    10/11/02
    University at Buffalo President William R. Greiner, who began his 35-year career at UB as a member of its Law School faculty in 1967, has been selected to receive the 2002 Jaeckle Award, the highest honor bestowed by the UB Law School and its Alumni Association.
  • To Detect Cyberattacks, New Software System Developed at UB Profiles 'Normal' Computer Habits
    10/10/02
    An early version of a new software system developed by University at Buffalo researchers that detects cyberattacks while they are in progress by drawing highly personalized profiles of users has proven successful 94 percent of the time in simulated attacks.
  • UB Courtroom Named for Law School Alumnus Francis M. Letro in Recognition of $1 Million Gift
    10/10/02
    Demonstrating his generosity and a belief in the power of advocacy that was inspired in him as a child, Francis M. Letro, a 1979 graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School, has committed $1 million to the school in support of its programs and facilities.
  • UB to Sponsor Seminar for "Peace of Mind" in Estate Planning
    10/9/02
    The University at Buffalo's offices of Planned Giving and University Development will hold an estate-planning seminar on Oct. 22 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.