News Releases

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

  • 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).
  • UB, Kalieda Health Co-Sponsor Conference on New Heart-Surgery Procedures
    8/3/99
    An international conference on minimally invasive heart surgery, co-sponsored by UB and Kalieda Health, will be held Aug. 13-15 in Kalieda Health's Buffalo General Hospital.
  • UB Staff Member Competes On Burton’s Winning NASCAR Team
    8/3/99
    On weekends, David Ballard, associate director of student unions at the University at Buffalo suits up for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Winston Cup and Busch Grand National Series races as a member of the Exide Team pit crew for NASCAR star-driver Jeff Burton.
  • UB Law School to Offer Master’s Program in Criminal Law
    7/30/99
    The University at Buffalo Law School this fall will offer a post-professional master of laws (LL.M.) program in criminal law, the only program of its kind in the nation.
  • Ashwill Contributes to U.S. Education Studies
    7/29/99
    Mark A. Ashwill, Ph.D., director of UB's World Languages Institute, contributed to a series of studies recently published by the U.S. Department of Education.
  • UB School of Management to Open Family Business Center
    7/29/99
    To help family-business owners and operators face challenges unique to their businesses, as well as those that confront all businesses, the University at Bufalo School of Management is launching a new Family Business Center.
  • UB Forms Dean's Council for College of Arts and Sciences
    7/26/99
    The College of Arts and Sciences at UB has formed a Dean's Council to offer guidance to the college on such issues as technology in education, career planning and development.
  • Bright Receives Chemical Society’s Buck-Whitney Award
    7/26/99
    Frank V. Bright, professor of chemistry at UB, has been awarded the Buck-Whitney Award of the Eastern New York section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 1999.
  • National Group Names Herreid Distinguished Lecturer
    7/26/99
    Clyde F. (Kipp) Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and academic director of the University Honors Program at UB, has been selected as the Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecturer of the American Physiological Society's (APS) Teaching of Physiology Section. The lecture will be given April 16, 2000, during the Experimental Biology 2000 meeting in San Diego.
  • Coming Soon To Your Desktop: Advanced Internet Videoconferencing
    7/23/99
    The enormous potential of both telemedicine and high-grade distance learning may be one giant step closer to being realized if an experimental, three-way demonstration of advanced Internet videoconferencing technology on July 27 involving the University at Buffalo, Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) in Buffalo, Ohio State University, the Jackson Laboratory and others goes off without a hitch.