News Releases

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

  • Men At Highest Risk Least Likely to Comply with Post-Heart-Attack Exercise Program, UB Study Finds
    6/4/99
    Men recovering from a heart attack who are at the highest risk of a second attack and thus would benefit most from conscientious participation in an exercise program are the least likely to do so, a University at Buffalo study has found.
  • UB Law Students Honored at Commencement
    6/4/99
    Forty-five graduates of the Law School received awards during the law school's 1999 commencement ceremony.
  • Children’s Humorist Elizabeth Levy to Speak at UB
    6/4/99
    Elizabeth Levy, Buffalo native and the author of more than 70 children's books, will discuss the role of humor in children's literature during a presentation at 7 p.m. June 14 in UB’s Student Union Theatre on the North Campus.
  • Student Bridge Praised for Aesthetics, Presentation
    6/4/99
    "Spread Eagle," the 18-foot-long, five-foot-high steel bridge designed and built by a team of UB engineering students, earned praise for aesthetics and presentation at the National Steel Bridge Competition held recently in Anchorage.
  • Dehydration Makes Exercise-Induced Asthma Worse, Study by UB Researchers Finds
    6/4/99
    If athletes from elite to novice needed yet another reason to drink plenty of fluids during exercise, a new study by University at Buffalo exercise scientists provides it. Their research shows that dehydration may induce bronchospasm even before exercise and make exercise-induced asthma worse.
  • Graduate Named Recipient of Mellon Fellowship
    6/3/99
    Amherst resident Paul T. Feigenbaum, a 1998 UB graduate, has been awarded a 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
  • Management Students Receive Commencement Awards
    6/3/99
    Fifteen UB students received awards for excellence in their fields of study during the recent commencement ceremony for the UB School of Management.
  • Pharmacy School Recognizes Students at Commencement
    6/3/99
    The School of Pharmacy recognized 20 students with awards at its recent commencement ceremony.
  • Humanities Scholars Turn An Eye To The Many Implications Of Information Technologies
    6/2/99
    In our collective exuberance over the astonishing explosion in the field of information technology during the past two decades, we may overlook something just as important -- the investigation of its meaning. This observation by the faculty and graduate students who comprise the University at Buffalo's Critical and Cultural Studies in Information Technologies group has led to the development of a new array of courses exploring the forces shaping technology and its uses that is among the first of its kind in the nation.
  • Orator, Diplomat, Witch, Betrayer, Hero: A New History Lights Up Red Jacket’s Life
    6/2/99
    Allegedly tried as a witch by his own people, admired and feared by European monarchs, accused of betraying the nation he represented, the formidable Iroquois diplomat Red Jacket remains one of the most compelling figures of his era. "Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator," a new book by University at Buffalo Archivist Christopher Densmore, is the first modern biography of the legendary Seneca Indian.