News Releases

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

  • Recruitment Opportunities Abound for U.S. Universities as Canadian High Schools Graduate "Double Cohort" in 2003
    6/5/02
    The University at Buffalo is among U.S. institutions gearing up to recruit the most talented of the as may as 75,000 Canadian high school graduates who could be migrating to the United States next year to fill seats in college and university classrooms unavailable to them in their homeland.
  • Scientists to Discuss How Earthquake Engineering Practices Can Be Used to Design Terrorism-Resistant Buildings
    6/5/02
    Structural engineers from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), headquartered at the University at Buffalo, will gather in New York City later this month to discuss how earthquake-engineering practices and blast-resistant designs can be used to create "terror-resistant" buildings.Their analysis will be part of a two-day workshop, "Lessons from the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack: Management of Complex Civil Emergencies & Terrorism-Resistant Civil Engineering Design," on June 24 and 25.
  • UB, Niagara Hospice Partner on Leading-Edge Pharmacy Care
    5/31/02
    Niagara Hospice and the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have formed a partnership, believed to be only the second of its kind in the United States, that will place both institutions at the forefront of research and instruction in hospice and palliative care.
  • Custom UB License Plates Available for Alumni, Supporters
    5/31/02
    University at Buffalo alumni and supporters who reside in New York State can now show their "UB pride" with new custom license plates that have been approved by the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
  • 13 Faculty Members Named UB Distinguished Professors
    5/31/02
    Thirteen faculty members at the University at Buffalo have been named the first UB Distinguished Professors.
  • Researcher Receives Prestigious Award to Study Factors that Delay Hospice Care for Terminally Ill Older Adults
    5/31/02
    A social work researcher at the University at Buffalo has received a prestigious award to explore, in collaboration with Hospice Buffalo, the psychosocial factors that contribute to delayed hospice care for terminally ill older adults.
  • Thompson Named to Board of World Maritime University
    5/31/02
    Myron A. (Mick) Thompson, associate provost and executive director of the graduate school at the University at Buffalo, has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the World Maritime University.
  • 227 UB Students Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa
    5/28/02
    Two hundred twenty-seven students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
  • UB Law Students Honored at Commencement
    5/28/02
    Fifty-seven students at the University at Buffalo Law School received awards during the school's 113th commencement ceremony held on May 11.
  • UB Research Provides First Scientific Proof that Handwriting Is Unique to Each of Us
    5/28/02
    Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo have provided the first peer-reviewed scientific validation that each person's handwriting is individual, according to a paper that will be published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in July.