News Releases

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

  • Great Lakes Muscle Symposium Set for June 15
    5/24/01
    Recent scientific developments in muscle physiology and plasticity will be presented at the Great Lakes Muscle Symposium to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 15 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst. It will be sponsored by the Department of Physical Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences in the School of Health Related Professions.
  • Listening to Music of Choice During Outpatient Eye Surgery Lowers Patients' Cardiovascular, Emotional Stress
    5/24/01
    Older adults who listened to their choice of music during outpatient eye surgery had significantly lower heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac work load than patients who did not listen to music, a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • "Computer Camp for Adults" Planned at UB
    5/24/01
    If you think webmasters are spiders and mice live in mousepads, you should plan to attend one or more of four computer courses to be offered this summer by the UB's Millard Fillmore College.
  • UB Takes Lead in Consortium Awarded $5 Million to Develop New Materials in Molecular Electronics, Photonics
    5/23/01
    The U.S. Department of Defense has selected the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at the University at Buffalo to lead a world-class consortium in a five-year, $5 million effort to develop new materials in molecular electronics, photonics and opto-electronics to form the basis of a new generation of solar-powered information technology systems.
  • Want Your Child to Eat Broccoli? Try a Dash of Sugar
    5/23/01
    College students can be taught to like cauliflower and 5-year-olds to drink grapefruit juice. It can be accomplished through flavor-flavor learning and all it takes is a sprinkling of sugar, says Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Ph.D., University at Buffalo provost and professor of psychology, who studies the origins and development of taste preferences.
  • 29 UB Students Named to National Premedical Honor Society
    5/22/01
    Twenty-nine students at the University at Buffalo have been inducted into the Iota Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the premedical honor society.
  • UB's Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology to Co-Sponsor Conference on Autism
    5/22/01
    Nationally recognized experts on autism, the country's third most common developmental disability, will speak at a regional conference, "Autism/Asperger's 2001," to be held June 14-15 in the Buffalo Convention Center.
  • Sixteen UB Students Inducted Into Spanish Honor Society
    5/22/01
    Sixteen students at the University at Buffalo have been inducted into the Beta Nu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the national collegiate honor society in Spanish.
  • 137 UB Students Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa
    5/22/01
    One hundred and thirty-seven students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
  • $100,000 Planning Grant Awarded for New Boys & Girls Club Clubhouse in Eggertsville/Amherst Neighborhood
    5/21/01
    A new and permanent facility for the Amherst Boys & Girls Club to meet the needs of children and families in the Eggertsville neighborhood adjacent to the University at Buffalo's South (Main Street) Campus is on the horizon as the result of a $100,000 planning grant from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to UB and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo.