News Releases

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

  • Astronaut Mae Jemison to Deliver King Address at UB
    2/14/03
    Mae C. Jemison, astronaut, physician, engineer and entrepreneur, will deliver the keynote address at the 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event on Feb. 27 at the University at Buffalo. Jemison was the first woman of color to go into space when she blasted into orbit as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992.
  • Parents' Sport Fishing and Consumption of Toxins in Sport Fish Contribute to Shifts in Gender-Role Behavior, UB Scientists Find
    2/14/03
    Women's exposure to environmental contaminants that mimic the activity of human sex hormones during prenatal development can affect the masculinity and femininity of their offspring, UB researchers have found.
  • UB Buffalo Public Interest Law Program Auction to Raise Funds for Public Interest Fellowships
    2/11/03
    The University at Buffalo Law School's Buffalo Public Interest Law Program will hold an auction to benefit public-interest fellowships Feb. 28 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Film Series at UB to Focus on Women's Struggles for Liberation
    2/11/03
    "My Country is the World: Films by Women" -- The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender's (IREWG) 7th International Women's Film Festival -- will debut Feb. 13 with a screening of the Iranian film "Two Women" at 7 p.m. in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St., Buffalo.
  • UB Center for Advanced Technology Awards $2 Million to Fund 11 Industry-University Collaborative Projects
    2/11/03
    The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) is awarding $2 million in funding to support 11 industry-university collaborative projects ranging from the development of a diagnostic medical device to a bioinformatics tool for virtual cloning.
  • Department of Theatre and Dance to present Arthur Kopit's "Chamber Music"
    2/10/03
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of Arthur Kopit's "Chamber Music" from Feb. 26 to March 2 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The production is sponsored by WBFO 88.7 FM.
  • V-Day Benefit Presentation of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" to be Held in UB Center for the Arts Feb. 18 and 19
    2/10/03
    As part of the V-Day 2003 College Campaign, the ground-breaking, Obie Award-winning "The Vagina Monologues" is coming to the University at Buffalo in the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • University at Buffalo Experts Available to Discuss a War with Iraq
    2/10/03
    Faculty members from the University at Buffalo are available for members of the media covering the political, military, economic and social implications of a U.S. war with Iraq.
  • Multimedia Artist's Work Offers Provocative Critique of Popular Culture
    2/7/03
    It may have been the broken black-and-white television set that was never replaced during her childhood. Perhaps it was the neighborhood spy clubs and intricately kept code books, or the Super 8 film camera purchased for $2 at the Salvation Army that fueled a future filmmaker's imagination. Today, Caroline Koebel, multimedia artist and assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, finds creative impetus in themes that are inherently political, sexual, often racial and almost always concerned with gender and identity.
  • Professor Goes by the Book in Gift to the UB Department of Communication
    2/6/03
    Gerald Goldhaber, associate professor of communication in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics, has donated the royalties of the current and future editions of his textbook "Organizational Communication" to create a discretionary fund for students in the school's Department of Communication.