News Releases

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

  • UB’s World Languages Institute to Take Popular “Japanese for Executives” Program Online
    12/5/00
    The World Languages Institute (WLI) at UB has developed a unique online version of "Japanese for Executives," its popular certificate program in Japanese language and cross-cultural training.
  • UB Faculty Members Honored by Hillel of Buffalo
    12/5/00
    Eighteen Jewish SUNY Distinguished Professors and a Nobel Laureate at UB were honored by Hillel of Buffalo at a ceremony and reception on Dec. 5 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
  • UB to Offer First SUNY Doctorate in Physical Therapy
    12/1/00
    The University at Buffalo in 2001 will join an elite group of universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT). The UB doctoral program will be the first within the State University of New York system.
  • Hofher Named UB Football Coach
    12/1/00
    The University at Buffalo announced today that Jim Hofher, who has 22 years of collegiate coaching experience -- including eight as a head coach -- has been named the 23rd football coach in school history.
  • Opening Dedication Set for Math Building
    11/30/00
    Faculty and staff members of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences officially will be welcomed to the North Campus today at the opening dedication of the new Mathematics Building.
  • Institute Releases First State of the Region Progress Report
    11/29/00
    The Buffalo-Niagara region has experienced definite, if incremental, progress over the last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • Basketball Guru Dick Vitale to Speak at UB
    11/29/00
    The University at Buffalo's Office of Special Events and the Division of Athletics will team up on Dec. 5 to offer a one-of-a-kind twin bill featuring a talk by basketball guru Dick Vitale, followed by a game between the UB Bulls and the Duquesne Dukes.
  • New Approach to Pharmacotherapy Aims to Eliminate Medication Mishaps, Cut Costs for Senior Citizens
    11/29/00
    Senior citizens might be a lot happier -- not to say healthier and maybe even a little wealthier -- if health-care providers and insurers stopped focusing exclusively on costs of prescriptions and instead looked closely at why patients take so many medications in the first place, according to a UB pharmacist.
  • Researchers Hope "Music of the Spears" Will Illuminate Origins of Cognition
    11/29/00
    The production of proto-Paleolithic tools and their analysis as possible musical instruments are part of a multi-year study by the University at Buffalo, Cambridge University, the Cincinnati Museum Center and the British Academy designed to study the relationship between music and cognition. The specific project aim is to determine if music is the catalyst that separated Homo sapiens sapiens from Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis -- Neanderthal man.
  • Donation to UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics to Fund New Design Concept
    11/28/00
    Television and computer screens that would be lighter, brighter and thinner -- that's the goal behind a $100,000 donation to the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics from AKT, Inc., the world's leading supplier of CVD systems, processes and services to the flat-panel-display manufacturing industry.