News Releases

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

  • Spin-Off Studies from Historic Women's Health Initiative Address Myriad Diverse Conditions in Men and Women
    9/3/02
    In the "one-thing-leads-to-another" nature of scientific research, hundreds of studies are underway at the University at Buffalo and other clinical sites of the Women's Health Initiative, spawned in whole or part by the 12-year, $625 million initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health.
  • More Than 2,000 Dell Servers to be Used for Advanced Research at UB
    9/3/02
    Dell and the University at Buffalo today announced one of the largest clusters of Linux servers ever at a U.S. educational institution.
  • Therex LLC, Formed by UB Inventors, to Focus on Drugs to Combat Infections, Inflammatory Diseases
    9/3/02
    The UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach has licensed to Therex LLC, a company formed by three UB faculty members, patents and technologies based on their prior research with salicylanilide chemical compounds.
  • Sept. 11 Commemoration to be Held in Center for the Arts
    8/29/02
    UB will remember the first anniversary of a national tragedy with a Sept. 11 Commemoration to be held at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Emeritus Center Meeting to be Held Sept. 10
    8/29/02
    Monica B. Spaulding, professor in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will discuss "Experiences with Athletic Drug Testing" at the first meeting of the semester of the Emeritus Center, to be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 10 in 102 Goodyear Hall on the South Campus.
  • First in Series of Blood Drives Set for Sept. 10
    8/29/02
    The Red Cross, the UB Blood Drive Committee and the Employee Assistance Program have scheduled several campus blood drives during the fall semester.
  • Casting Events of Sept. 11 as Acts of 'War' Has Catastrophic Implications, Says UB Historian
    8/23/02
    The popular response to the events of 9/11 has been wholly appropriate, moving and important, says historian Michael Frisch, but now the "war" metaphor is being used at the policy level to justify actions whose consequences place the U.S. and its people in greater and greater danger.
  • Projects Funded by SPIR Program Credited with Saving More Than 900 Jobs, Revenue Increases of $24 Million
    8/23/02
    The local branch of the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Insurgence (SPIR), an economic stimulus program based in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, provided an estimated $160,000 in project support to Western New York companies during its 2001-2002 fiscal year.
  • Post-Sept. 11 Consumers Are More Introspective, Less Hedonistic, Says UB Marketing Professor
    8/22/02
    The appetites and spending habits of American consumers have changed substantially during the one-year period after Sept. 11, according to an expert on retail strategy and consumer perception at the University at Buffalo.
  • 9/11 Has Changed America's Sense of Self, Says UB Professor of American Culture
    8/22/02
    The Sept. 11 terrorists attacks have dramatically changed attitudes Americans have about themselves, their country and war, says Bruce Jackson, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo.