News Releases

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

  • New Book By UB Management Dean Says Today's Students Likely to Become Tomorrow's Financially Strapped Adults
    8/18/98
    Debt, bad credit, poor retirement planning and even bankruptcy lie ahead for many of America's youth, according to a new book authored by Lewis Mandell, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • UB Forensic Psychologist Finds That Domestic Violence is Moving Out of The Home And Into The Workplace
    8/18/98
    Domestic violence may begin at home, but batterers are following their abused partners into the workplace, jeopardizing not only them, but their co-workers and innocent bystanders as well, a University at Buffalo forensic psychologist has found.
  • Ryan Recognized For Creating Electronic Resource For Disabled-Student Service Professionals
    8/14/98
    Daniel Ryan, director of the Office of Career Planning and Placement, recently received the 1998 Professional Recognition Award from the Association for Higher Education and Disability.
  • Levine Named President-Elect of Apa Law Society
    8/14/98
    Murray Levine, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, has been named president-elect of the American Psychology Law Society, a division of the American Psychological Association.
  • UB Computer Science Professor And Former Chair Dies At 75
    8/13/98
    A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Aug. 15, for Patricia James Eberlein, professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, who died in her Buffalo home on Tuesday, Aug. 11, from lung cancer. She was 75.
  • Make School Shopping A Lesson In Managing Money
    8/10/98
    Back-to-school shopping provides parents with an opportunity to teach their children to be educated shoppers, says Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research and chair of the Department of Marketing in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Math Homework: Parents May Think They're Helping, But. . .
    8/10/98
    Douglas Clements, professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, warns that parents should not be "suckered" into doing their child's mathematics homework.
  • Return to School Brings Increase In Cold Viruses
    8/10/98
    With the return of children to the close confines of the classroom in the fall comes an increase in the incidence of upper-respiratory-tract infections (URIs) -- the common cold.
  • Children Will Eat Lunches They Make Themselves
    8/10/98
    Children who make their own lunch are more likely to eat it than if their parents make it, according to Janice Cochran, certified dietitian and nutritionist with the University at Buffalo Student Health Center and UB Living Well Center.
  • Open Lines of Communication With Teachers
    8/10/98
    It is important for parents to have an open line of communication with their child's teachers before problems arise, according to J. Ronald Gentile, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education.