News Releases

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

  • Finding Carotid Plaque On A Standard Dental X-Ray May Predict Fatal Heart Attack Or Stroke, UB Study Finds
    4/4/00
    Everyone knows that clogged arteries increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke. Unfortunately, most people don't know they have clogged arteries until they actually have a heart attack or some other serious cardiovascular event. By that time, the damage may already be done. Evidence is mounting, however, that information gleaned from a routine dental X-ray may serve as an accurate early-warning system of risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.
  • Alice Walker, Author Of “The Color Purple,” To Speak At UB
    4/3/00
    Poet, essayist and author Alice Walker, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Color Purple," will speak at 8 p.m. April 26 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • “Treat The Person, Not The Pain”
    4/3/00
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Pain Management are finding new ways to treat chronic pain, a condition thought to affect as many as one in four Americans at an annual cost in disability compensation and lost productivity estimated to be as high as $100 billion.
  • John Yeh Named UB Chair of Obstetrics And Gynecology
    4/3/00
    John Yeh, M.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota, has been named chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at UB, effective May 1.
  • Molecular Geneticist Named UB Biochemistry Chair
    4/3/00
    Kenneth M. Blumenthal, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry and microbiology at the University at Cincinnati, has been named chair of the UB Department of Biochemistry, effective Aug. 1.
  • Stuttering Workshop To Be Held At UB
    4/3/00
    A workshop to help teens and adults who stutter assess their communication strengths and learn how to improve their effectiveness as communicators will be part of a conference to be held April 29 at UB.
  • A Lean, Mean Electronic Poetry Machine Proves April Is Not the Cruelest Month
    3/30/00
    April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
  • M&T Contribution Moves UCI Housing Program Forward
    3/30/00
    A contribution of $31,000 a year for two years from M&T Bank will allow the University Community Initiative to move forward with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
  • 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.