News Releases

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

  • Vena Receives Medal From Jagiellonian University in Poland
    8/11/99
    John E. Vena, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the Medicina Cracoviensis 2000 Medal for fostering continuing programs on environmental medicine and epidemiology between UB and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
  • Pietkiewicz Named Director Of Federal Relations For UB
    8/11/99
    Michael J. Pietkiewicz, former senior legislative assistant/staff director for U.S. Rep. Jack Quinn (R-Hamburg), has been named director of federal relations for UB. Pietkiewicz will have primary responsibility for the university's federal-relations program and initiatives.
  • UB Group Brings High-Quality Videoconferencing And Streaming Video To The Desktop
    8/10/99
    How long will it be before you can participate in a videoconference or "visit" with an overseas client without leaving your desk? If a recent experiment at the University at Buffalo is any indication, it could be much sooner than many people think.
  • UB Student Engineers Win Regional Contest With Innovative Project To Help Clean Up Environment
    8/10/99
    A group of chemical-engineering majors from UB has won a regional design competition for developing an apparatus and procedure to purify and recycle a solvent used in the rubber industry.
  • UB Breaks Ground For Housing Complex
    8/10/99
    The University at Buffalo last week broke ground for South Lake Village, the third residential complex for UB students to be built in recent years as part of a long-term plan to provide housing for students and improve their quality of life.
  • Grant To Produce “Virtual” 1901 Pan Am Exposition Puts Buffalo At Fore Of National Millennium Effort
    8/6/99
    The University at Buffalo is one of only seven universities nationwide to receive a small but significant "Imagining America" grant through a new initiative co-sponsored by the White House Millennium Council and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to begin work on a collaborative educational documentary involving a multifaceted "virtual-reality" version of Buffalo's 1901 Pan American Exposition.
  • Serbian Opposition Leader To Speak At UB Sept. 9
    8/6/99
    Svetozar Stojanovic, noted Serbian philosopher and a leader of the democratic opposition to Slobodan Milosevic, will speak at 4 p.m. on Sept. 9 in 280 Park Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • Gao Named To NIH Study Section On Biophysics
    8/5/99
    Jiali Gao, Ph.D., a UB professor of chemistry, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  • Not To Worry -- Geographer Says Heat, Drought Are Par For The Climatological Course
    8/5/99
    Fear not! The dog days oppressing much of the country with miserable heat, drought and brownouts are a normal part of the climatological pattern and do not portend disastrous climate changes, a University at Buffalo geographer says.
  • Millard Fillmore College Is Not The Same Old Night School
    8/3/99
    George Lopos likes to borrow that advertising line made famous by General Motors -- "We're not your father's Oldsmobile" -- when outlining the changes that are under way at Millard Fillmore College (MFC).