News Releases

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

  • Betty Friedan to Lecture At UB Spring Clinical Day May 1
    4/12/99
    Betty Friedan, considered the foremost feminist of the 20th century, will present the Stockton-Kimball lecture May 1 at the 62nd annual Spring Clinical Day, which will be devoted to women's health issues.
  • UB Students' Photography On Exhibit At CEPA
    4/12/99
    Photographic work by seniors in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences will be on exhibit in the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA) from April 16 through June 18.
  • UB Scientist Receives $1.5 Million to Continue Quest For Vaccine Against Ear-Infection-Causing Bacterium
    4/12/99
    Timothy F. Murphy, M.D., has received a five-year $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue development of a vaccine against a bacterium responsible for 3.5 million childhood ear infections annually in the U.S.
  • Jankowski Named to Alumni Position At UB
    4/9/99
    Michael Jankowski, former director of athletics at Niagara University, has been named an assistant director of alumni relations at UB.
  • Environmental Hazards to Be Topic of "UB At Sunrise"
    4/9/99
    The environmental hazards of lawn-care chemicals and alternative lawn-care treatments will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" program on April 22.
  • UB Business Alliance Helps Local Companies Secure More Than $336,000 In Training Grants
    4/9/99
    The Center for Industrial Effectiveness in the University at Buffalo Business Alliance, assisted four local companies in receiving more than $336,000 in state training grants in the fourth quarter of 1998.
  • CNN's Blitzer to Speak At UB's Commencement Ceremony
    4/7/99
    The University at Buffalo has landed one of its most famous alumni -- Wolf Blitzer, CNN's senior White House correspondent -- as speaker for its 153rd commencement ceremony on May 16.
  • SUNY Trustees Name Breverman Distinguished Professor
    4/7/99
    Harvey Breverman, professor of art at the University at Buffalo since 1961 and a widely exhibited and internationally acclaimed artist, has been named a Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the State University of New York system.
  • International Hispanic Studies Conference to Honor Two UB Faculty Members
    4/7/99
    Rosario Ferré, Puerto Rico's most celebrated and popular author, will join eminent critic and editor Diana de Armas Wilson as a featured speaker at "Convergencias Hispánicas," an international Hispanic studies conference to be held April 9-11 at UB.
  • 9 to Be Honored By UB Alumni Association
    4/7/99
    Nine individuals, including the president of a major Chinese university and an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger, will be honored when the UB Alumni Association holds its annual awards dinner on April 30.