News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • More Than A Decade After Controversy Dies, UB Physicist Provides Evidence of Existence of Anomalons H Particle And Other Exotic States of Matter May, Finally, Be Detectable
    3/1/98
    Research by a University at Buffalo physicist, published today in the British Journal of Nuclear and Particle Physics, provides the first indisputable evidence of the existence of anomalons, which contradict conventional laws of physics.
  • Local Residents Lead Volunteer Teams For UB Athletics Scholarship Drive
    2/27/98
    Several local residents are joining former UB basketball player Gina Stafford, who is charing the effort, in serving as team leaders for the third annual University at Buffalo Division of Athletics scholarship fund drive.
  • North Buffalo Resident Leads UB Scholarship Drive
    2/27/98
    North Buffalo resident Gina Stafford is chair of the third annual UB Division of Athletics scholarship fund drive, being held through March 25.
  • UB Cites Community Policing For Drop In Campus Crime
    2/27/98
    University at Buffalo officials say community policing contributed to an overall drop in crime on the North and South campuses in 1997.
  • Social Security System Weakens American Family, Slows Economic Growth, New Study Says
    2/27/98
    Social Security can be added to the list of “usual suspects” blamed for the breakdown of the American family, according to a new study of some neglected economic and social effects of this country’s current Social Security system.
  • 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.