News Releases

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

  • UB Scientist Edits Comprehensive Book On Protocols For Measuring Oxidative Stress, Antioxidant Activity
    3/31/98
    Donald Armstrong, Ph.D., D.Sc., a UB specialist in free-radical bioactivity, is editor of a new book of analytical protocols for measuring oxidative stress and antioxidant activity.
  • Author of 'kids Who Kill' Says Jonesboro Shootings Demonstrate Need to Restrict Use of Guns By Youth
    3/31/98
    University at Buffalo law professor and forensic psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing says the shootings of four students and a teacher in Jonesboro, Ark., underscores the need for laws such as one that would make possession/use of any firearm by youths under 16 a punishable offense.
  • UB Lecture to Examine Link Between Women, Shopping, Space
    3/31/98
    Mona Domosh of Florida Atlantic University will discuss "A Feminine City: Women, Shopping and Space in 19th Century New York” in a lecture on April 8.
  • With Less Time On Their Hands, Women Shop Close to Home While Men Tend to Travel Farther, UB Study Shows Data Have Implications For Planning And Suburban Sprawl
    3/28/98
    Women won't travel as far as men will to do their shopping because they have less time available for the task, a study by a University at Buffalo geographer has found.
  • Technology Fails to Keep Pace At Fast-Food Restaurants
    3/24/98
    A computer system used by a national fast-food restaurant chain to decide what items to cook and when is effective because its designers did not fully appreciate what workers deal with on a daily basis, a conflict between workers and systems that exists in many industries.
  • Psycholinguist to Discuss How Children Acquire Language
    3/24/98
    Melissa Bowerman of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands will explore the subject of first-language acquisition during a lecture fromon April 9 in 121 Cooke Hall.
  • Urban Planner Beauregard to Lecture At UB On March 31
    3/24/98
    Robert Beauregard, professor at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in the New School for Social Research, will present a lecture titled "Imagining Utopia" at UB on March 31.
  • Suburban Conflict Between Deer And Humans to Be Subject of Conference Sponsored By UB School of Law
    3/24/98
    The controversial issues that have emerged over deer in the suburbs -- and how to resolve them -- will be examined at a regional conference to be held on March 28 at the School of Law.
  • UB Professor Named Chair of Pediatric Nephrology
    3/23/98
    F. Bruder Stapleton, M.D., A. Conger Goodyear professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named chair of the Sub-Board of Pediatric Nephrology of the American Board of Pediatrics for 1993.
  • Context And Content of The Conference
    3/20/98
    Mayan Culture at the Millennium: Retrospect and Prospect will provide a forum for presentations by, and conversations among, scholars who approach Mayan culture from many different perspectives. The conference will pair scholars with expertise in similar domains so that they, along with other participants, might find common ground during discussion periods.