News Releases

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

  • UB Students Get Paid to Sit In Science Class to Evaluate Faculty Learning Case-Study Approach
    6/4/98
    Attendance rates have jumped to 95 percent in some instances when case studies -- standard practice in business, law and medicine -- are used at the University at Buffalo in science courses for nonscience majors.
  • Memorial Service Set For Seymour Axelrod
    6/4/98
    A memorial service will be held on June 14 for Seymour Axelrod, 70, a psychologist who was professor emeritus in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at UB.
  • Mistrett Honored By Council For Exceptional Children
    6/3/98
    Susan G. Mistrett, education specialist in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of Health Related Professions, has been awarded the 1998 Service Award by the Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children.
  • Fischman Honored For Work With Hiv Patients
    6/3/98
    Stuart L. Fischman, D.M.D., professor emeritus of oral diagnostic sciences at the UB, recently was honored by the New York State Health Department/AIDS Institute for achievement and commitment in providing services and care for individuals with HIV and their families.
  • UB Graduate Receives Doctoral Dissertation Award
    6/3/98
    Kara Latorella, who received her doctorate from the UB Department of Industrial Engineering in 1997, has been named the 1998 winner of the Stanley N. Roscoe Award for the best doctoral dissertation in a research area related to aerospace human factors.
  • UB Fertility Researchers Find They Can Predict Pregnancy By Assessing Two Sperm Abnormalities
    6/2/98
    Fertility researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have found a link between two sperm abnormalities and low pregnancy potential.
  • UB Pharmacy School Recognizes Students At Commencement
    6/1/98
    The UB School of Pharmacy recognized 23 students with awards at its recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB to Offer Summer Language Program For Children
    5/29/98
    UB’s World Languages Institute this summer will offer new, two-week introductory courses in five languages -- Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish -- for children in first through sixth grades.
  • Presentation of 'author’S Chairs' Mark Successful First Year of UB Component of America Reads Literacy Program
    5/28/98
    In the first year of the University at Buffalo's America Reads program, some 25 students eligible for federal college work-study money served as supervised reading tutors for elementary-age children.
  • Physicists Studying The Melting Process Find New Liquid Phase That is Slightly Out of Order
    5/28/98
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown that when a sold melts, it undergoes two phases changes, including a newly identified liquid phase that has some characteristics of a solid, but which is still technically a liquid.