News Releases

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

  • Moral Philosopher O’Neill To Deliver Hourani Lectures At UB
    3/13/00
    Timely and undying issues about ethics and politics will be analyzed by Onora O'Neill, one of the world's most respected moral philosophers, during the six-part George Hourani Lectures in Moral Philosophy, to be held next month at UB.
  • Belgian Theater Company To Be In Residence At UB
    3/10/00
    Belgium's Theatre Company of the University of Liege (TULg) will visit UB next month to present a free public performance in French of the play "Kafka," an adaptation of "Communication a une academie," a witty, absurdist short story by Franz Kafka.
  • UB Thespians Only U.S. Participants In Theater Festival
    3/10/00
    The Department of Theatre and Dance in the UB College of Arts and Sciences will be the only U.S. participant in the prestigious Les Fetes Theatricales du Suroit International Theatre Festival, which will be held next month at the College de Valleyfield in Montreal.
  • Witherspoon Named UB Men’s Basketball Coach
    3/10/00
    The University at Buffalo named Reggie Witherspoon its head men’s basketball coach today (March 10) following a three-month national search.
  • UB Alumni Association To Present Annual Awards April 7
    3/10/00
    The host of an award-winning National Public Radio program, a University at Buffalo neurologist internationally known for his research on childhood brain tumors and the founding dean of UB's School of Health Related Professions will be among 10 individuals honored at the UB Alumni Association's annual awards dinner on April 7.
  • Noted Author Michael Bérubé To Speak At UB April 7
    3/8/00
    Noted author Michael Bérubé, whose "Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family and an Exceptional Child" was selected one of the best books of 1996 by The New York Times and the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," will speak April 7 at UB.
  • UB Program To Provide Support For Kids Coping With Divorce
    3/8/00
    In an unusual partnership, a professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo and a Western New York judge have developed a program that will provide social support and education about divorce and teach coping skills -- free of charge -- to children of the nearly 3,000 divorce cases handled annually by Erie County courts.
  • UB Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the University at Buffalo have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.
  • UB’s Division Of Athletics Receives A Gift In Memory Of Alumnus, Devoted Sports Fan
    3/8/00
    Mindy Wasserman and her children, Jeffrey and Betsy Heymann, David and Lisa Heymann and Andrew Heymann, decided to make it a family affair when establishing a scholarship fund for the UB Division of Athletics in honor of their late husband and father, Walter Heymann, an alumnus and former UB football player.
  • UB’s EOC Moving To New Home At 100 Seneca Street
    3/8/00
    The University at Buffalo's Educational Opportunity Center, located at 465 Washington St. for the past 30 years, plans to move by early fall to offices in the former Empire of America Realty Credit Corp. building at 100 Seneca St., adjacent to the Erie Community College City Campus.