News Releases

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

  • Fountain Named Chair Of Department Of Geology
    9/23/99
    John C. Fountain, Ph.D., UB professor of geology, has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the department, part of the university's College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB Professor Says Making “Connection” Is Key In Preventing Youth Suicide
    9/23/99
    Thomas T. Frantz has spent 25 years dealing with people affected by suicide, death, dying and grief, and has witnessed first-hand the pain that leads up to and lingers after a tragedy. That pain can be deadly for teen-agers, he says, and urges parents, teachers and friends to do their part in preventing youth suicide by making a connection with the troubled youth.
  • Artist “Plants” Weeds In UB Art Gallery
    9/23/99
    Artist Tony Matelli has taken a unique stance in the exploration of nature versus culture by recreating familiar weeds -- the rebellious sort that "sprout like elegant anger on the concrete sweep of urban America" -- in a sculpture exhibit that captures how these often unwanted plants imply a social quest for beauty and control.
  • UB-Squeaky Wheel Project Gives Urban Girls a Leg Up in the Use of New Technologies
    9/20/99
    The University at Buffalo has teamed up with Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources to offer a unique, extracurricular arts-and-technology outreach program for disadvantaged, early-adolescent girls in grades 5-7 that is designed to help them overcome the technological gender gap. UB students majoring in computer art and media study will serve as staff assistants in the program.
  • Noted Science-Fiction Novelist Delany Joins UB Faculty
    9/20/99
    Samuel R. "Chip" Delany, widely recognized as an intellectually gifted autodidact, literary iconoclast, memoirist and very likely the finest science-fiction novelist of our time, has joined the University at Buffalo faculty as an adjunct professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he is expected to make a prominent contribution to the department's Poetics Program. He will become a full professor in the Spring 2000 semester.
  • Johns Hopkins Nursing Dean to Give Bullough Lecture
    9/20/99
    Sue K. Donaldson, Ph.D., dean and professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, will discuss "A Quarter Century of Breakthroughs in Nursing Research" at the Third Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held on Sept. 30.
  • Bono Named Chair of English Department at UB
    9/20/99
    Barbara J. Bono, an established scholar of Shakespeare, Elizabethan-Jacobean drama and English Renaissance literature and associate professor of English, has been named chair of the UB Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB Scientists Discover Role of Melatonin in Bone Formation
    9/20/99
    University at Buffalo researchers have shown for the first time that melatonin, a hormone produced naturally by the pineal gland and used widely as a supplement to diminish jet lag and improve sleep patterns, may play an important role in promoting bone growth.
  • Adult Aphasia To Be Subject Of UB Conference
    9/17/99
    Adult aphasia, a disruption in the ability to speak, write, comprehend or read, will be the subject of a day-long conference to be held Oct. 1 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • UB To Host Kids Voting Day Activities Sept. 28
    9/17/99
    Western New York's young adults will get a chance to speak their minds at UB on National Kids Voting Day. Approximately 500 students from 75 high schools in Erie and Niagara counties will convene at Alumni Arena and Baird and Slee halls on the North Campus Sept. 28 to participate in a half-day conference on voting behavior and civic responsibility.