News Releases

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

  • UB Foundation Incubator Marks 10th Anniversary; Eyes Even Greater Success As Part of UB Business Alliance
    11/5/98
    With companies it has assisted now totaling nearly 400 employees and $51 million in revenues, the University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator is looking to even greater accomplishments as part of the new UB Business Alliance.
  • UB Business Alliance Places Industrial-Assistance Programs Under One Roof, Offering Businesses A "One-Stop Shop"
    11/5/98
    Businesses in Western New York and beyond have a new and improved way to access the University at Buffalo in the UB Business Alliance, an organization designed to enhance the university's partnerships with industry.
  • Headrick to Step Down As UB Provost
    11/5/98
    UB Provost Thomas E. Headrick will step down as the university's chief academic officer effective Jan. 1, President William R. Greiner has announced.
  • Margarita Vargas to Head UB Department of Modern Languages And Literatures
    11/4/98
    Margarita Vargas, Ph.D., whose work has been published in major literary journals here and abroad, has been named chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures for a three-year term.
  • Rappole to Coordinate UB's Distance-Learning Nursing Program In Jamestown
    11/4/98
    Mary H. Rappole, a family nurse practitioner, has been named coordinator of the School of Nursing's bachelor's-degree distance-learning program in Jamestown.
  • UB School of Social Work Gets $1.2 Million Grant to Study Prevention of Substance-Abuse In Children
    11/4/98
    A $1.2 million three-year federal grant to evaluate the effectiveness of family skills training to prevent substance abuse and other problems in children in welfare families where parents are involved in the abuse of alcohol or other drugs has been awarded to researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.
  • Perez Selected to Serve As Liaison to Aafp
    11/4/98
    Brenda L. Perez, a second-year student in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been selected to serve as student membership liaison for the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Adele Henderson Named to Head UB Art Department
    11/4/98
    Adele Henderson, an accomplished printmaker whose complex, abstract work has been exhibited throughout the United States, has been named chair of the Department of Art.
  • Former Duke Cardiologist Harold Strauss Named Chair of UB Department of Physiology And Biophysics
    11/3/98
    Harold C. Strauss, M.D., former Edward S. Orgain Professor of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center and a specialist in ion-channel function, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB to Hold Cardiovascular Diseases Symposium
    11/3/98
    Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases will be the focus of a Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Diseases Symposium to be held on Nov. 19.