News Releases

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

  • Jack Meacham, Jerry Newman Named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors
    5/5/99
    Two University at Buffalo faculty members -- Jack Meacham and Jerry N. Newman -- have joined the ranks of distinguished teaching professors appointed by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
  • Jacquelyn Mitchell Dies At 59, Dean of UB Graduate School of Education
    5/4/99
    A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday (May 5, 1999) at the waterfall in Glen Park, Williamsville, for Jacquelyn Mitchell, 59, dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. Mitchell died at home Friday (April 30, 1999) after a short illness.
  • UB American Sign Language Instructor Aims to Bridge Gap Between Hearing And Deaf People
    5/3/99
    Born deaf and raised in a hearing family, Lee Dray spent the first 16 years of her life unexposed to the culture and language that now define her identity and career. As the instructor for the University at Buffalo's new courses in American Sign Language, she hopes to help narrow the gap between cultures of the deaf and the hearing, as well as expose hearing people to the deaf culture of America.
  • Friends of UB School of Architecture And Planning Offer Walking Tours of Buffalo
    5/3/99
    The summer program of walking tours conducted by The Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning began on May 1 and will continue until Oct. 30.
  • UB Researchers Show Osteoporosis In Type 1 Diabetic Women Begins After The Teen Years
    5/2/99
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo, seeking to determine when the bone loss that results in osteoporosis in 19 percent of diabetic women begins, have found that mean bone density starts to decline sometime after the teen years.
  • Patients Treated Successfully For Hodgkin's Disease Are At 9 Times The Risk For Developing Second Cancers
    5/2/99
    Persons treated for Hodgkin's disease in childhood are at high risk for developing a second malignancy and should be monitored closely by their physicians throughout their lifetime, researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have shown.
  • Growth-Hormone Deficient Babies Are Normal Length At Birth, UB Study Finds
    5/1/99
    Babies born with a congenital growth hormone deficiency are of normal length at birth and don't begin to experience growth problems until about six months of age, research by pediatricians at the University at Buffalo have found.
  • Mini-Medical School to Focus On Understanding Health Care
    4/30/99
    Understanding health care and making it work for you will be the focus of a three-part, mini-medical-school course for the public to be held May 11, 18 and 25 by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Rogerson Named 1999 Guggenheim Fellow
    4/30/99
    Peter A. Rogerson, professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.
  • Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Growth of Breast-Cancer Cell Line, UB Researchers Show
    4/29/99
    A plant-based fat abundant in vegetarian diets and shown to inhibit the growth of prostate and colon cancer cells in vitro, also inhibits the growth in vitro of one line of breast-cancer cells, University at Buffalo nutrition researchers have found.