News Releases

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

  • Historian Wins Fellowship To Study Medieval Period In Japan
    3/28/00
    Thomas Keirstead, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $65,000 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
  • Daniel Libeskind, World-Renowned “Architect Of Silence” Will Present Slide Lecture At UB On April 7
    3/28/00
    "Vessel for a nation's remorse," "the museum without an exit," "well of quietude," "the presence of absence" -- these are some of the terms that have described the experiential and daring architectural works of Daniel Libeskind, the brilliant, iconoclastic and often controversial figure in international architectural practice and urban design, who will speak at UB on April 7.
  • Grateful Surgeon And Alumna Gives Scholarship Gift To UB’s School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    3/24/00
    University at Buffalo alumna Adele M. Gottschalk, M.D. '67, has given a $225,000 gift to support scholarships for students in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Perceptual Psychologist Stephen Palmer To Speak At UB
    3/24/00
    Award-winning perceptual psychologist Stephen E. Palmer, whose inquiry into the nature of visual perception has aroused interest across many disciplines, will present the 2000 UB Distinguished Speaker Lecture in Cognitive Science from 3:30-5 p.m. April 4 in 20 Knox Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • Delinquency To Be Topic Of “UB At Sunrise” Lecture
    3/24/00
    UB sociologist and author Simon I. Singer will discuss delinquency and its control in Amherst -- one of America's safest cities -- at a "UB at Sunrise" community breakfast lecture to be held at 7:30 a.m. April 12 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North Campus.
  • UB Immunologist To Present Witebsky Lecture
    3/24/00
    Internationally known UB immunologist and professor emeritus Ernst H. Beutner will deliver the 30th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture on April 6 in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Public Input Sought On Concepts For UB Landscaping Plan
    3/24/00
    Work sessions have been scheduled on both UB’s North and South campuses to solicit public input on the preliminary conceptual plans for a campuswide master landscaping plan.
  • History Of Handwriting To Be Discussed At UB Alumni Lecture
    3/24/00
    An historical overview of handwriting as a communication tool, art form and debatable gauge of character will be the topic of a UB Senior Alumni luncheon to be held at noon April 10 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North Campus.
  • Drinking Too Much? Take A Closer Look with Free Screening at RIA
    3/22/00
    Explore how alcohol affects you or someone you love at free, anonymous screenings to be offered at UB's Research Institute on Addictions on April 6.
  • Head Of UB Women’s Studies Program Says Progress Slow As Women Strive “To Claim Their Own Voice”
    3/22/00
    Isabel Marcus has been championing the rights of women since the mid-1950s. And while time would seem to be on the side of progress, the director of the Women's Studies Program at the University at Buffalo says women still are striving to claim their own voice in the 21st century.