News Releases

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

  • Rabbi Mintz To Be Honored For 13 Years Of Service With Hillel
    10/22/99
    A Bar Mitzvah Year of Service honoring Rabbi Shay Mintz, who for 13 years has served and inspired Jewish college students at the UB-based Hillel of Buffalo, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
  • Grand Opening Of Center For Computational Research Includes Visit By Pataki
    10/22/99
    Gov. George E. Pataki was the guest of honor Oct. 26 at the grand-opening ceremonies of the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research, one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers.
  • UB Coalition On Urban Education To Survey Parents
    10/22/99
    The Coalition on Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at UB has teamed up with several community groups in an effort to reach out to parents of children attending Buffalo Public Schools.
  • Minniefield Works To Increase Awareness Of Organ Donation In Minority Communities
    10/20/99
    William Minniefield's determination to convince the African-American community that organ donation is a good and necessary thing has resulted in a major grant award to the University at Buffalo and the regional transplant agency to accomplish that goal.
  • UB Architecture School Plans Lecture Series
    10/20/99
    Frank Lloyd Wright scholar Robert McCarter will speak at 6 p.m. Oct. 20 in the Performing Arts Center auditorium at Buffalo State College as part of the UB School of Architecture and Planning's Fall Lecture Series.
  • Bill Moyers To Speak At UB Nov. 3
    10/20/99
    Bill Moyers, well-known television program producer and host, journalist and author, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage theater on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Establishes A Canada-U.S. Fulbright Chair In Peace Studies With Gift From Alumnus And His Wife
    10/20/99
    A gift from a University at Buffalo alumnus has helped UB establish a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Chair in Peace Studies.
  • Younger Chemist Group At UB Wins National Award
    10/20/99
    The American Chemical Society (ACS) has recognized the work of the Western New York Younger Chemists Committee (WNY YCC) at UB with a Local Section Younger Chemist Committee Award.
  • Major American Poet To Present Silverman Reading At UB
    10/20/99
    C.K. Williams, award-winning contemporary American poet and translator, will present the 23rd annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 in 250 Baird Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • Conference Set On How Shifts In Higher-Education Funding Restrict Access For Low-Income Students
    10/20/99
    The critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents has raised serious concerns among educators here and abroad because it severely restricts access to higher education for millions of low-income students in many nations. To illuminate the problem and resolve the critical policy issues related to this crisis, the University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16.