News Releases

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

  • Rice Named To Red Cross Diversity Council
    2/24/00
    Donna S. Rice, Ph.D., associate vice president for student affairs at UB, has been appointed to a one-year term on the 12-member National Diversity Advisory Council of the American Red Cross.
  • UB Electrical Engineer Wins Prestigious Research Award
    2/23/00
    Alexander N. Cartwright, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of a prestigious Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award.
  • Black Mathematicians, Other Scientists Find Community At UB Web Site
    2/23/00
    Even in 2000, African-Americans who are studying to be -- or already are -- mathematicians face a lonely proposition: only about one-quarter of 1 percent of all mathematicians in the United States are black. But many of them are finding a thriving community at the unique Web site created and maintained by a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo.
  • Dental Pioneer Elliot Gale Dies At 61
    2/21/00
    Elliot N. Gale, Ph.D., professor emeritus of behavioral science in the UB School of Dental Medicine and a pioneer in the use of biofeedback in chronic jaw muscle pain, died unexpectedly at his North Buffalo home on Jan. 14. Gale, 61, was in the process of retiring to a home in New Mexico.
  • UB Department Of Library And Information Studies To Match ALA Scholarships For Minorities
    2/21/00
    The Department of Library and Information Studies in the UB School of Information Studies will match up to six scholarships of $5,000 each offered by the American Library Association (ALA) for students entering UB's accredited Master of Library Science (MLS) program in Fall 2000.
  • UB Creative Craft Center Schedules Early Spring Workshops
    2/21/00
    The early-spring session of workshops presented by UB's Creative Craft Center will offer six-week courses for adults beginning March 20 in basic and intermediate pottery and stained glass, creative and color photography, knitting, crocheting, quilting and jewelry crafting.
  • RIA Receives NIH Grant To Assist Partners Of Problem Gamblers
    2/18/00
    Most people are ill-prepared to deal with the hardships brought on by a loved one's gambling problem. Researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) have begun a new project funded by a $649,283 grant from the National Institutes of Health that is aimed at studying the stress these people may be experiencing and the ways they've tried to deal with it.
  • UB Law School Holds Annual Auction To Fund Student Work In Public Service Law
    2/18/00
    The Buffalo Public Interest Law Program (BPILP), a nonprofit organization run by students in the Law School, will hold its annual auction to support student participation in summer public-service-law internships on Feb. 25.
  • UB Geologist To Use Data Gathered By Shuttle To Develop New Way To Map Shorelines, Detect Quake, Volcanic Activity
    2/18/00
    A project led by a University at Buffalo geologist involving the topographic mapper being flown by the space shuttle Endeavour could help to develop a new and far more accurate way to map features of shorelines and aid scientists in determining past and future volcanic and seismic activity in an area.
  • UB Researchers Develop Novel Way To Study Dynamics Of Receptor Proteins
    2/18/00
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo, in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, report a new way to study the dynamics of proteins as they pass through the transition state between inactive and active.