News Releases

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

  • Levy Named Interim Dean of Graduate School of Education
    5/8/99
    Senior Vice Provost Kenneth J. Levy has been named interim dean of the Graduate School of Education by Provost David Triggle.
  • Breast Milk of Women Who Eat Lake Ontario Fish Contains High Levels of PCBs, UB Study Finds
    5/8/99
    Women who eat fish from Lake Ontario have significantly higher levels of PCBs and pesticides in their breast milk than women who do not eat Lake Ontario fish, results of a study of lactating women in the New York State Angler Cohort has shown.
  • Sheffer Named Region's Public Administrator of The Year
    5/8/99
    The Niagara Frontier Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) has named John B. Sheffer, II, director of the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, as its 1999 Public Administrator of the Year.
  • Stuttering Workshop to Be Held At UB
    5/7/99
    The Buffalo Chapter of the National Stuttering Project and the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University at Buffalo will sponsor a workshop May 15 for teens who stutter, their parents, adults who stutter and for speech-language pathologists.
  • International Meeting to Focus On Structural Optimization
    5/5/99
    The third World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, an international conference focusing on research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures and systems, will be held May 17-21 at the University at Buffalo. It will be the first time the conference will be held in the U.S.
  • 16th Science Exploration Day Set At UB
    5/5/99
    More than 1,000 high-school students from Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will visit the UB North Campus on May 18 during the 16th annual Science Exploration Day.
  • Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to Perform At "UB At Sunrise"
    5/5/99
    The tango -- that romantic, Latin American dance form -- will be the focus of a "UB at Sunrise" program by the Castellani/Andriaccio Duo to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. May 27 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • 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.