News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • UB Ranks In Top 50 of America's "Wired" Campuses
    4/6/99
    Yahoo! Internet Life, has ranked the University at Buffalo at No. 47 on its list of 100 Most Wired Colleges in the U.S.
  • The Chemical Leupeptin Protects Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss In Animal Model, UB Hearing Researchers Show
    4/6/99
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo Center for Hearing and Deafness have shown for the first time that a compound called leupeptin may help protect against the noise-induced hearing loss caused by living in noisy industrialized societies.
  • 6th Child Violence Symposium Targets Firearms In Schools
    4/6/99
    "Guns in the Hands of Children" will be the subject of the sixth annual Childhood Violence Symposium on April 15, sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • McGuire Heads UB Office of Technology Transfer And Licensing
    4/5/99
    Jerry McGuire has been named director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Licensing in the University at Buffalo Business Alliance.
  • First Trial Comparing Adderall to Ritalin For ADHD Shows It to Be Longer-Lasting, Equally As Effective
    4/5/99
    The first trial of comparable doses of Ritalin, the standard treatment for children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Adderall, another drug used to treat ADHD, has shown that Adderall lasts longer than Ritalin and is at least as effective.
  • Symposium On Implant Dentistry to Honor Meenaghan
    4/5/99
    Strides being made in research and technology in the field of dental implants will be the topic of the first annual Michael A. Meenaghan Symposium on Implant Dentistry to be presented on April 23 by the UB School of Dental Medicine.