News Releases

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

  • Four UB Students Named Fleming Merit Award Recipients
    12/1/97
    Four UB students have been named recipients of the annual J. Scott Fleming Merit Award by the University at Buffalo Student Alumni Board, a student affiliate of the UB Alumni Association.
  • Holiday Art Sale to Benefit UB Printmaking Program
    12/1/97
    An array of original print designs by talented UB alumni, faculty and students will be on sale from noon until 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Center for the Arts Atrium on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Receives Federal Grant For Rehabilitation Nursing
    12/1/97
    The UB School of Nursing has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to be used for the training and preparation of rehabilitation nurses.
  • UB School of Management Hires Consulting Firm to Assist In Search For New Dean
    11/26/97
    The School of Management has hired an international management-consulting firm to assist in its search for a new dean.
  • Cancer Cells' Growth, Death to Be Focus of UB Research
    11/25/97
    A $5,000 grant from The Buffalo Foundation will fund research at the UB into the reproduction and self-destruction mechanisms of cancerous cells.
  • UB Primary Care Externship Program Bolstered With $150,000 Grant
    11/25/97
    An innovative program providing real-life clinical learning opportunities in primary care for UB medical students has received a $150,237 three-year grant from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation of Stamford, Conn.
  • Transmission Improvements at WBFO to be Supported by Foundation Grant
    11/25/97
    New telecommunications technology to improve its broadcast sound quality in electronic feeds to National Public Radio and other radio syndicators will be implemented by WBFO 88.7 FM with the support of a $5,000 grant from The Buffalo Foundation.
  • NCEER Names Soong Interim Deputy Director
    11/24/97
    Tsu-Teh Soong, Samuel Capen Professor of Engineering Science and professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, has been named interim deputy director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.
  • Stomach Acid In Lungs, A Leading Killer of Pregnant Women, is Focus of UB Anesthesiology Research Condition Also Believed to Have Contributed to The Death of Popular Actor, Rock Stars
    11/24/97
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo's Department of Anesthesiology have found that inhaled nitric oxide, a new therapy being tested to treat serious respiratory ailments, may do more harm than good if used for aspiration pneumonia.
  • UB Psychologist Urges Abandonment of Corporal Punishment Nonpunitive Methods Are Just As Effective, But Not Morally Objectionable
    11/24/97
    Corporal punishment should be abandoned as a form of disciplining children because it is morally objectionable and because there are effective, non-punitive alternatives available, a University at Buffalo psychologist maintains.