News Releases

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

  • International Conference on Bioorganic Reactions Set for Aug. 15-17 by UB Department of Chemistry
    8/2/02
    Bioorganic reactions, essentially the reactions that distinguish living systems from nonliving ones, will be the subject of an international symposium to be held at the University at Buffalo on Aug. 15-17.
  • UB to Dedicate Creekside Village Student Apartment Complex
    8/2/02
    The grand opening of Creekside Village, the University at Buffalo's newest student housing complex, will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 22 in the community building of the complex on Skinnersville Road on the UB North Campus.
  • 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Thin Man' Among Selections in Fall 'Buffalo Film Seminars' at Market Arcade
    8/2/02
    "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man" -- two legendary film adaptations of Dashiell Hammett novels -- will be among the highlights of the Fall 2002 edition of "Buffalo Film Seminars: Conversations About Great Films with Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson."
  • Study Finds 'Idealized' Story of America Being Scrutinized, Questioned by High School Students
    8/1/02
    A study by an education researcher at the University at Buffalo has found that the "celebratory grand epic" about America that prevails in many of the nation's history classrooms and textbooks is no longer taken at face value by the increasingly heterogeneous population of U.S. high school students.
  • Jusko Named Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB
    8/1/02
    William J. Jusko, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been named chair of the school's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • UB Researcher Observes Strong Statistical Correlation Between Prevalence of Diabetes and Air Pollution
    7/26/02
    A dramatic statistical correlation between the prevalence of diabetes and air pollution levels has been demonstrated by a University at Buffalo researcher who publishes his observations in the August issue of the journal, Diabetes Care.
  • Hutson Named Chief of UB's Division of Biostatistics
    7/25/02
    The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has named Alan D. Hutson as chief of its Division of Biostatistics.
  • UB Researcher Receives Prestigious National Institutes of Health MERIT Award
    7/25/02
    University at Buffalo researcher Kenneth E. Leonard, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scholar in the area of addictions, has received a prestigious MERIT Award for his research from the NIH's National Advisory Council of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
  • Third Annual Rockin' Rally at UB to Feature Concert by Pat Benatar
    7/25/02
    Pat Benatar, who in the 1980s reigned supreme as the biggest solo female rocker in the U.S. and possibly the world, will headline the third annual Rockin' Rally on Aug. 23 to kick off theUB's 2002 football season.
  • From Bench to Supercomputer: New UB Visualization Lab Is One of Few in the Nation that Bridges the Gap
    7/24/02
    A new laboratory with state-of-the-art graphics workstations at the University at Buffalo is providing a rare commodity: a way to bridge the gap between bench science and supercomputing through molecular modeling and bioinformatics tools. The Laboratory for Molecular Visualization and Analysis is one of a handful of such facilities in the nation, providing a critical service to researchers at UB and its affiliated research partners.