News Releases

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

  • RIA’s “Diversity In Addictions” Seminar Series To Highlight Obesity, Gambling And the Rave Culture
    2/16/00
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will present national experts speaking on the topics of obesity, gambling and the rave culture during its Spring 2000 Seminar Series entitled "Diversity in Addictions."
  • Black Law Students To Host Event For High-School Students
    2/16/00
    Fifty juniors and seniors from several Buffalo high schools will get a preview of what it's like to attend law school during a Black History Month program to be held Feb. 25 at UB.
  • UB Dental School’s Program Goes Digital
    2/15/00
    When members of the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine's Class of 2004 arrive on campus this August, they will purchase no textbooks, no laboratory manuals, no workbooks. They will pick up no course outlines or lists of recommended reading. They will receive instead one inauspicious-looking compact disc, which will contain the full content of 90 textbooks in 28 topic and the curriculum for all four years of dental school, including course syllabi, class notes, laboratory manuals and lecture slides.
  • Gift To Fund Student Center In UB School Of Management
    2/15/00
    J. Grant Hauber, an alumnus of the University at Buffalo School of Management, has given $500,000 to the school for construction of a state-of-the-art student center.
  • Lynch Receives MLA First Book Award
    2/14/00
    Deidre Shauna Lynch, associate professor of English at UB, has received the sixth annual Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Prize for a First Book for her book "The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning," published in 1998 by the University of Chicago Press.
  • Hough Named Assistant Vice President For Human Resources
    2/14/00
    Susan Hough has been appointed assistant vice president for human resource services at UB.
  • UB Researchers To Study Early Environmental Exposure To Potential Carcinogens And Link To Breast Cancer
    2/14/00
    Jo Freudenheim, Ph.D., professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, is leading a project that will map the early-childhood residences of a group of women, the proximity of their homes to sites that may have been environmentally hazardous, and compare this data to the women with and without breast cancer to see if there is an association.
  • UB to Offer 3 New Advanced Nursing Certificate Programs
    2/10/00
    The School of Nursing will offer three new advanced certificate programs beginning this summer and fall.
  • UB Scientists Report Evidence of "Early Warning" Blood Test That Can Detect Cell Damage From Radiation Exposure
    2/10/00
    Scientists from the University at Buffalo report that they have developed and patented a simple blood test that can measure accumulated cell damage from ionizing radiation -- one of the major causes of cancer -- long before any physical signs are evident.
  • Fraser to Speak in "University and the World" Lecture Series
    2/7/00
    Is it possible in today's world to re-think the politics of recognition so that economic issues can be resolved without losing cultural identity? Nancy Fraser, third speaker in "The University & the World" lecture series, will argue the question at 8 p.m. Feb. 11 in the Center for the Arts Screening Room.