News Releases

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

  • Veteran UB Medical “Trekker” Finds Recent Trip To Himalayas To Be Most Harrowing Mission
    10/29/99
    Richard Lee is a veteran "trekker." The founder and director of the University at Buffalo Medical Trek Program has made numerous trips overseas since the mid-1980s delivering medical treatment to indigenous populations all across the globe. But a 28-day mission last summer to India with 17 others to deliver medical treatment to the people of the Himalayas was the most harrowing by far.
  • Distinguished Polish Director To Lead UB Student Production
    10/29/99
    Students in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance this semester are getting the chance to learn from and work with one of Poland's most distinguished directors, Jan Maciejowski, who is currently in-residence at UB from the Academy of Drama in Kraków.
  • UB Group Proposes Regional Nonprofit Organization To Develop Brownfields
    10/29/99
    The complicated process of revitalizing Western New York's many brownfields could be enhanced and accelerated significantly through the formation of a new, nonprofit organization designed to facilitate such projects, according to a report by a new University at Buffalo group, the Brownfield Action Project (BAP).
  • Sheffer Leads Parliamentary Reform Project In Zambia
    10/29/99
    John B. Sheffer, II, director of the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at UB, is leading a State University of New York team that is conducting a needs assessment for the National Assembly of the Republic of Zambia.
  • UB To Establish Center For The Americas
    10/27/99
    The University at Buffalo will establish a Center for the Americas as an interdisciplinary teaching and research center in the College of Arts and Sciences to expand the university's curriculum and degree options in the field of American studies.
  • Nagi Participates In National Engineering Symposium
    10/27/99
    Rakesh Nagi, Ph.D., associate professor of industrial engineering at UB, was selected as one of the nation's top young engineers to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Fifth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.
  • Author Wendy Steiner To Speak At UB
    10/27/99
    Author Wendy Steiner, whose book "The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism," made The New York Times list of "100 Best Books of 1996," will speak Nov. 18 at UB.
  • Peter Buechi Elected President Of UB Engineering Alumni
    10/27/99
    Peter J. Buechi, a regional environmental remediation engineer with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), has been elected president of the UB Engineering Alumni Association.
  • Neurosurgeon Works To Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome
    10/25/99
    As a pediatric neurosurgeon at Kaleida Health's Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Mark Dias treats children who suffer from a host of diseases associated with the brain and spinal cord. But in addition to combating those serious illnesses ever day, he’s taking steps to insure that he doesn’t have to treat infants for something that could have been prevented: shaken baby syndrome.
  • Giotis Named Engineer Of The Year By UB Alumni Group
    10/22/99
    George A. Giotis, president of Flasher Handling Corp. in Depew and a 1949 graduate of UB, has been named 1999 Engineer of the Year by the UB Engineering Alumni Association.