News Releases

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

  • University At Buffalo Energy-Conservation Projects Record Highest Savings Among Campuses
    3/5/98
    The University at Buffalo saves $9 million per year as a result of its creative strategies for energy conservation, according to a report released today by the National Wildlife Federation.
  • Quadruple The Taboo: Watch Out For "March Madness"
    3/4/98
    If you're spooked by superstitions, you'll probably want to stay home next weekend. Friday the 13th will feature a full moon, as well as a lunar eclipse, and two days later will be the Ides of March!
  • Family Medicine Faculty Takes Funding Shortfalls Into Own Hands; Sets Up Foundation to Support Programs
    3/4/98
    Taking its cue from the adage, "If you want a job done right, do it yourself," faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine at the University at Buffalo, using deductions from their own paychecks, have started a foundation to support work they think is important, but for which funding is not available.
  • UB Faculty Member Awarded Grant to Study Korean Monarch
    3/4/98
    Sek Yen Kim-Cho has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Korean National Assembly Educational Committee to research and promote the study of Sejong, a monarch and philosopher of Korea's Golden Age.
  • UB Engineer Discovers Carbon Composite is A Semiconductor Raises Possibility of Structural Materials That Are Themselves Electronic
    3/4/98
    A University at Buffalo engineer has made the first observation of semiconducting behavior in a carbon composite material, a finding that could revolutionize the fields of "smart" structures and electronics.
  • UB Printmaking Program to Offer Spring Workshops Series
    3/4/98
    The experimental Print Imaging Center of the Printmaking Program in the Department of Art will host a spring series of three day-long workshops in Room B37 of the Center for the Arts.
  • Health-Care Textbook Authored By UB Faculty Members is Hit In University Classrooms Across The Country
    3/4/98
    Harry Sultz, D.D.S, and Kristina M. Young have written "Health Care USA," a comprehensive textbook being used in 120 courses in 77 colleges and universities across the country.
  • Educator Urges Schools to Approach Computers Cautiously; Says Pressure to Purchase Units Can Undercut "Common Sense"
    3/2/98
    If you think that "computer Utopia" is right around the corner, you might want to spend some time talking with Hank Bromley about the use of technology in America's schools.
  • UB Executive MBA Program Helps Groom Top Managers
    3/2/98
    With the economy in good health, more companies are willing to pay for executive training programs, like the Executive MBA program in the UB School of Management, because they feel compelled to restock with top talent after years of downsizing.
  • Sympathy Not "Automatic" Following The Death of A Pet Need to Mourn A Pet's Death "Unacknowledged By Society"
    3/2/98
    Pet-owners confronted with the death of a pet are forced by society to suppress their suffering, according to a University at Buffalo bereavement expert, because their anguish is largely unaccepted by a public that is uncomfortable with grief.