News Releases

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

  • Improving U.S. Resiliency and Response to Terrorist Attacks
    6/21/02
    Leading researchers in the fields of earthquake and blast engineering, as well as social scientists with expertise in disaster response, are gathering in New York City today to examine the events of 9/11 and explore ways to make structures more resistant to terrorist attacks and reduce risk to inhabitants and emergency responders. During a two-day workshop, organized by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, headquartered at the University at Buffalo, the researchers are discussing lessons learned from the September 11 attack and will offer recommendations for how government leaders, engineers, emergency personnel and private citizens might better prepare for future terrorist attacks.
  • Estrogen May Lower Women's Risk of Heart Disease by Working as Damper on Inflammation, UB Study Shows
    6/20/02
    Estrogen's ability to reduce a woman's risk of heart disease during her reproductive years may be based on a previously unexamined mechanism of the hormone: its anti-inflammatory effects.
  • Study Finds Profound Vitamin D Deficiency in Kashmiri Women
    6/20/02
    The first study of vitamin D status in a group of Kashmiri women and their babies has revealed across-the-board deficiency of the nutrient, which increases the risk of rickets, osteoporosis, other bone disorders and muscle weakness in this population.
  • WBFO to Focus on Chautauqua Institution Programming
    6/20/02
    WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, this week begins a summer-long series of reports on the Chautauqua Institution's 2002 season. The station will be broadcasting weekly previews of morning lectures, concert previews and feature stories about the institution.
  • If Screening Shows Osteoporosis, Many Women May Not Tell Their Physician or Begin Treatment, UB Study Finds
    6/18/02
    Osteoporosis, a disease of bone-thinning that puts women at risk of serious fractures, is underdiagnosed and undertreated, a study by University at Buffalo researchers presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research has found. Nearly half of 836 women in a population-based study who underwent screening for osteoporosis for the first-time were found to have undiagnosed disease, results showed. Moreover, follow-up a year later revealed that half of those diagnosed with osteoporosis did not begin treatment to slow progression of the disorder and a quarter failed to discuss the screening results with their physician
  • Great Lakes a Summer Classroom for Students From UB, Buffalo State and Other Colleges
    6/18/02
    The Great Lakes and its tributaries are a classroom for 10 students enrolled in the Great Lakes Summer Institute being hosted this month through June 25 by the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College. Working alongside researchers from UB's Great Lakes Program and the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State, the students are testing water quality in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and in the Buffalo and Niagara rivers.
  • UB to Offer Collaborative Graduate Program in Law and Applied Economics
    6/18/02
    The University at Buffalo will offer a graduate level program in law and applied economics, a collaborative effort between the UB Law School and the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning with the Fall 2002 semester.
  • Eating High-Fat Meal Raises Blood's Proinflammatory Factors; Vitamins E and C Counter that Response
    6/16/02
    In a series of studies designed to define the role of dietary macronutrients in the initiation of arterial inflammation that predisposes a person to atherosclerosis, University at Buffalo researchers have found that a high intake of glucose, or eating a high-fat, high-calorie fast-food meal causes an increase in the blood's inflammatory components.
  • Insulin Sensitizer Has Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Diabetics
    6/15/02
    A drug used widely as an insulin sensitizer appears also to have a significant anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics, a property that could make it useful in helping to prevent heart disease in these patients, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has found.
  • "Led by Language" Is First Full-Length Study of Noted American Poet and UB Professor Susan Howe
    6/14/02
    "Led by Language" by Rachel Tzvia Back has been called a "groundbreaking study" of the enigmatic experimental American poet Susan Howe, professor of English at the University at Buffalo. Published recently by the University of Alabama Press as part of its Modern and Contemporary Poetry Series, this is the first full-length study of Howe, who is known for having changed several literary genres.