News Releases

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

  • UB’s Olympic Presence: Former UB Chancellor, President Competed in 1920 Games in Antwerp
    9/28/00
    Eighty years ago, a young collegian from Indiana was settling back into campus life after spending the summer as an Olympic athlete and competitor in post-Olympic events overseas. The 19-year-old Purdue undergraduate was Clifford C. Furnas (1900-1969), who went on to a distinguished career as scientist, author and chancellor of the University of Buffalo from 1954-62, and from 1962-66 as the first president of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • UB’s State of the Region Project Receives Statewide Award
    9/28/00
    The New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) has awarded its 2000 Planning Award for Public Education to the State of the Region project, an initiative of the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • UB Study Shows that Early Drug Treatment Can Delay Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis in High-Risk Patients
    9/28/00
    A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine led by Lawrence Jacobs, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo, has shown that early treatment with one of the drugs used to control multiple sclerosis (MS) can significantly reduce the rate at which people at high risk develop full-blown symptoms of the disease.
  • Showing Their Colors -- Afro-Germans Beginning to Carve a Place for Themselves in German Society
    9/21/00
    The existence of Afro-Germans is unknown to most Americans, although many of the 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany today are of American G.I. parentage and distinguished African Americans like educator and writer W.E.B. DuBois and abolitionist Frederick Douglass had notable ties to Germany and Germans. The social and cultural issues that Afro-Germans face today, and how their experiences can enrich our understanding of historical and contemporary racial issues, will be explored at a conference to be held at UB on Oct. 12-13.
  • Harvard Professor to Delve into Poets’ Hostility for their Mothers in Lecture at UB
    9/21/00
    Barbara E. Johnson, Ph.D., Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, will present a free lecture at 4 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts as part of the "University and the World" lecture series sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Pinkel Named Medical School’s Distinguished Alumnus
    9/21/00
    Donald Pinkel, professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M University Medical School and a renowned specialist in pediatric oncology, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UB Medical Alumni Association at a dinner held Sept. 14.
  • 10 Festival Films to be Screened at UB
    9/21/00
    The 10 films featured in the traveling Empire State Film Festival will be screened from 3-5 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts.
  • Alan Zweibel to Speak at UB on Oct. 4
    9/21/00
    The Department of Media Study in the UB College of Arts and Sciences will host a visit by Alan Zweibel, a UB alumnus and one of the original writers for "Saturday Night Live," on Oct. 4.
  • Arteries in Children of Premature Heart-Attack Victims Show Stiffening, Thickening at an Early Age
    9/20/00
    Researchers can see the future in the blood vessels of children with a parent who has had a premature heart attack and the picture is not pretty. A study in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine -- on which Maurizio Trevisan, M.D., professor and chair in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo, is senior author -- reports that ultrasound images showed structural and functional abnormalities known to lead to atherosclerosis in children as young as 6 years.
  • Pain Specialist to Present 4th Annual Bullough Lecture
    9/19/00
    Ada K. Jacox, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for research at Wayne State University College of Nursing, will discuss "The Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Outcomes and Cost" at the fourth annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held Oct. 5 at UB.