News Releases

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

  • For the First Time in 30 Years of Record Keeping, Some New York Lakes Failed to Freeze This Past Winter
    3/21/02
    In his 30 years of studying freeze-thaw cycles of lakes in New York State, Kenton Stewart, Ph.D., has never seen some lakes in his lake-ice network stay unfrozen for an entire winter unless it was an El Nino year. But things changed with the winter that officially ended on Wednesday. While the majority of lakes still froze, the professor emeritus of biological sciences says "a surprising number" that developed ice covers in previous winters, had only a partial skim of ice this winter, or did not freeze at all during the winter of 2001-02.
  • UB Team's Model for Protecting High-Speed Networks Achieves High-Bandwidth Efficiency and Fast Recovery
    3/21/02
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed the first approach that achieves both high-bandwidth efficiency and fast recovery speeds in protecting mission-critical computer connections against high-speed network failures.
  • 8 to be Honored at Alumni Association Dinner on April 19
    3/20/02
    An internationally recognized leader in the automotive industry, a pioneer in medical informatics and a world-renowned scholar in the field of African-American history will be among eight individuals to honored by the University at Buffalo Alumni Association at its Celebration of Excellence Dinner on April 19.
  • Study Suggests Insulin May Have Potential to Prevent Thrombosis Leading to Heart Attack and Stroke
    3/20/02
    Insulin may interfere with the cascade of reactions that promote clot formation and platelet aggregation in heart-attack patients and may help prevent clot formation and plaque development in persons at risk of heart attack and stroke, new research by University at Buffalo endocrinologists has shown.
  • Marriage, Family Issues to be Focus of Lecture
    3/15/02
    Frank Fincham, UB professor of psychology, will discuss the findings of 30 years of psychological research on marriage and family issues, as well as expose some of the prevalent myths currently held by the public, during a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 17, in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Graduate School of Education to Begin Counseling Degree Program in Singapore in June
    3/15/02
    In response to a new training priority identified by the Singapore Ministry of Education, the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education will offer a 36-credit hour Master of Education Degree in School Counseling through Singapore's Center for American Education in Singapore beginning June 15.
  • UB School of Management Alumni Association to Present Forum on Global Business Opportunities
    3/15/02
    "Global Opportunities for WNY Businesses" will be the focus of a breakfast forum to be held by the Alumni Association of the School of Management on April 8 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • "Buffalo's Quest for Financial Stability" to be Topic of UB Municipal Law Forum
    3/13/02
    The Progressive Law Society, a student organization of the University at Buffalo Law School, will sponsor a municipal law forum titled "Buffalo's Quest for Financial Stability" from 4-6 p.m. March 20 in 106 John Lord O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Lessons Learned from Fall of Enron Informing MBA Classes at University at Buffalo
    3/13/02
    Two former Enron employees -- 1996 graduates of the University at Buffalo's MBA program -- will discuss lessons learned from the ongoing Enron investigation and its long-term impact on business practices during a panel discussion sponsored by the MBA program in the University at Buffalo School of Management. The panel discussion is only one example of several ways that the UB School of Management and its faculty are bringing lessons from Enron into the classroom.
  • UB Physician Prime Mover in Adapting Minimally Invasive Surgery Techniques to Children's Ailments
    3/13/02
    Pediatric surgeon Philip Glick, M.D., is on a crusade to convince the medical community worldwide that minimally invasive surgery -- which can lessen pain, hospitalization and recovery time for young patients, as well as lower health costs -- should be the new surgical standard for treating conditions in children and adolescents. One way he is spreading his message is through a 21st-century version of show-and-tell: the surgical equivalent of teleconferencing. Glick operates in Buffalo while an audience gathered at a distant site watches in real-time through the technology of fiberoptics