News Releases

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

  • Review of Studies Underscores Link Between Nutrition And Skin Cancer, UB Dermatologist Reports Low-Fat Diet, Antioxidant Vitamins Lower Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer
    2/27/98
    What you eat may play a role in your risk of developing skin cancer, according to a review of scientific literature dealing with the relationship between nutrition and nonmelanoma skin cancers conducted by a University at Buffalo dermatologist.
  • UB Sociologist Explores Limit of Merit In Higher Education
    2/26/98
    In a new edition of the previously published "Scaling the Ivory Tower," University at Buffalo sociologist Lionel S. Lewis points out that research and publication may not necessarily be the prime considerations of academic qualification.
  • UB Geographers Develop Computerized Pin-Maps That Use 911 Data to Show Where -- And Sometimes Why -- Crimes Occur
    2/26/98
    A team of University at Buffalo students and researchers have developed computerized pin-maps for the Buffalo Police Department that eventually could replace paper pin-maps, putting a far more sophisticated crime-analysis tool into the hands of beat officers.
  • National Stuttering Project to Offer Workshop At UB
    2/25/98
    The Buffalo chapter of the National Stuttering Project and the UB Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic will address speaking experiences of those who stutter in a workshop to be held on March 28 in Park Hall.
  • Poet Kenny Fries to Explore Art of Body And Psyche
    2/23/98
    Kenny Fries, the award-winning poet, essayist and playwright who stuns audiences with his lyrical, tantalizing narrations of life on the physical and emotional margins of American society, will present a reading at UB on March 26 and a workshop on March 27.
  • NCEER Receives Award For Seismic Upgrade of Navy Building
    2/19/98
    A $1.4 million project carried out in part by the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, headquartered at the UB, recently received the 1997 "Build San Diego" Award from the Association of General Contractors.
  • University at Buffalo Names Michael Bernardino Vice President for Health Affairs
    2/19/98
    Michael E. Bernardino, M.D., has been named vice president for health affairs at the University at Buffalo, UB President William R. Greiner announced today.
  • Book Describes How to Be "Great Divorced Dad"
    2/19/98
    Divorced fathers should not use their children to try to get revenge on their ex-wives, speak unkindly about them, cry poverty because of their settlement or turn their offspring into "mini-spies," a UB clinical psychologist advises in a new book.
  • Exhibit to Feature Work of UB Architecture Students
    2/18/98
    An exhibit featuring School of Architecture and Planning student nominees for the annual PELLA scholarship award will be on display until March 6 in the James Dyett Gallery in Hayes Hall.
  • UB Art Students' Work to Be Displayed In Two Exhibits
    2/18/98
    Aspiring artists from the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo will display their work in two special exhibits in the Center for the Arts.