News Releases

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

  • UB School of Management Alumni Association to Sponsor Forum for Western New York Businesses
    3/14/01
    The School of Management Alumni Association of the University at Buffalo will sponsor a forum, "Global Opportunities for Western New York Businesses," on April 3 in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB School of Management to Offer Master’s Degree in Information Systems
    3/13/01
    The University at Buffalo School of Management will offer a master of science degree program in management information systems (MIS) beginning in the fall. The 30-credit-hour program is open to qualified students who have completed an undergraduate degree in business or a closely related field.
  • UB Law Students Launching Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal
    3/13/01
    What may be the hottest new legal publication to hit the market this year could well be the Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, brainchild of an enterprising team of students in the University at Buffalo Law School.
  • Mars' Volcanoes May Have Melted Ice, Producing Water Necessary for "Life" on Red Planet
    3/12/01
    Two of the oldest volcanoes on Mars, which have been active for 3.5 billion years, are providing clues to the possibility of life on the planet, according to preliminary analysis by University at Buffalo geologists of new data from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), currently orbiting the planet.
  • Variation in Gene for Fibrinogen Associated With Severe Gum Disease, UB Oral Biologists Show
    3/10/01
    A variation in the gene that expresses fibrinogen, a protein that aids coagulation and accumulates in the blood stream in response to infection, may help to explain why some people develop severe gum disease while others do not, according to research conducted by oral biologists at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB’s Research Institute on Addictions to Participate in National Alcohol Screening Day
    3/9/01
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will participate in National Alcohol Screening Day on April 5 with free, confidential screening from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the institute, 1021 Main St., between North and Goodrich streets. Educational materials also will be available.
  • Award Named in Honor of Lyons
    3/8/01
    The Native American Service Agency of Upstate New York (NASA), a nonprofit agency that provides services to hundreds of urban Native Americans in the Syracuse area, is creating an award in honor of Oren Lyons, professor of indigenous studies at the Universityi at Buffalo.
  • With Assist from UB, Tuscarora Students Preparing CD-ROM Focusing on Ancestors' 18th Century Journey
    3/8/01
    Middle school students at the Tuscarora Indian School in the Niagara-Wheatfield School District have been working since late September to produce "Skarooran Journey: A Tuscaroran Adventure," an educational journey that explores aspects of the history, language and culture of these ancient eastern woodlands people through a student-designed, multimedia, CD-ROM program.
  • UB Web Site Presents Literary Works in Many Languages and Helps You Read Them, Too!
    3/8/01
    You'd love to read a little Baudelaire in French or kick back with Polish writer Slavomir Mrozek's famous interrogative poem, "Ud Podrozy." Unfortunately, you can't tell a guy traversing forets de symboles (forests of symbols) from a peck of przydro?ne je?yn (roadside boysenberries). Help is here, or, to be absolutely accurate, here: .
  • PTSD Patients Damage Teeth Through Involuntary Grinding, Clenching, UB Study Finds
    3/8/01
    As if persons with posttraumatic stress disorder didn't have enough to worry about, research now shows their stress-related symptoms could be damaging their teeth. An oral health assessment of patients with long-term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) conducted by periodontists from the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine revealed significant erosion of tooth surfaces among PTSD patients.