News Releases

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

  • Martens Made “Computers For All” UB’s IT Philosophy
    4/28/00
    A UB faculty member and administrator since 1962, Hinrich R. (Hinni) Martens has presided over the equivalent of several lifetimes of technological change in education. And he's all for it.
  • Schumer To Speak At UB’s 154th Commencement
    4/28/00
    U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer will deliver the address at the University at Buffalo's 154th general commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. May 14 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • 3 Foundations Support Project To Improve, Expand Signal Of WUBJ, WBFO’s Repeater Station In Jamestown
    4/28/00
    WBFO 88.7 FM, a National Public Radio affiliate and a major public service of UB, has received grants totaling $55,000 from three foundations to support the expansion and improvement of the signal of WUBJ 88.1 FM, its repeater station serving the people of Jamestown and Chautauqua County.
  • UB Endocrinologist Reports First U.S. Cases Of Severe Muscle Weakness Due To Vitamin D Deficiency
    4/24/00
    Adults afflicted with incapacitating muscle weakness and pain may be suffering from an easily treatable vitamin D deficiency, endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo have found.
  • Amherst Resident Receives Federal Fellowship
    4/21/00
    Yan Shtarker, a freshman computer science-and-engineering major at UB, has been awarded a highly competitive Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
  • Hayes To Speak At UB Spring Clinical Day
    4/21/00
    UB medical school graduate Maxine Hayes, a nationally known advocate for programs that promote children's health, will deliver the annual Stockton Kimball Lecture April 29 as part of the UB Medical Alumni Association's 63rd annual Spring Clinical Day.
  • Mandell To Offer Worst Financial Planning Tips At UB Luncheon
    4/21/00
    "The 10 Worst Financial Planning Tips" will be revealed by Lewis Mandell, Ph.D., dean of the UB School of Management, at UB's Senior Alumni luncheon on May 10.
  • UB Chemists Develop Revolutionary Method For Synthesizing Drugs Such As Ritalin, Zoloft
    4/21/00
    A revolutionary method for synthesizing specialty chemicals --especially pharmaceuticals -- that makes it possible to activate the normally unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds in organic molecules has been developed by a team of University at Buffalo chemists.
  • UB’s Carl Dennis Receives One Of The Most Distinguished Literary Awards In The English Language
    4/21/00
    Carl Dennis, professor of English in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has been named winner of the 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English language.
  • Nineteen UB Inventors To Be Honored At Workshop
    4/21/00
    Nineteen UB inventors will be honored at a workshop and awards presentation to be held from 2-5:30 p.m. May 1 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst.