News Releases

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

  • UB Dean Emeritus Perry Receives Theodore Roosevelt Award
    10/3/97
    J. Warren Perry, Ph.D., founding dean of the UB School of Health Related Professions at the University at Buffalo, recently received the 1997 Theodore Roosevelt Award for Exemplary Citizenship and Service.
  • UB Institute For Local Governance And Regional Growth Moves to Historic Beck Hall, Plans Oct. 16 Open House
    10/3/97
    UB’s Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth will kick off a full fall season of events with an open house on Oct. 16 in its new home: historic Beck Hall on the South Campus.
  • Link Between Gum Disease And Heart Disease to Be Focus of Major Five-Year NIH-Funded Study
    10/2/97
    Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UB dental researchers and preventive medicine specialists are beginning a five-year study of the relationship between periodontal disease and heart attacks.
  • UB Study Aims to Keep Seniors On Their Toes, Prevent Falls
    10/2/97
    A study to determine if exercises can improve balance and agility in older adults and involving subjects as old as 91 is being conducted by a UB assistant professor of physical therapy and exercise and nutrition sciences.
  • Environmental Audit of City Hall By UB Students Suggests Ways to Save Money, Improve Conditions
    10/1/97
    Too much hot air -- literally -- and two few recycling bins were among the concerns about Buffalo’s City Hall that a group of UB environmental-studies students raised this week when they met with Mayor Anthony Masiello.
  • UB Sets Oct. 18 Open House For Prospective Undergraduate Students
    10/1/97
    UB will hold its first “Discover UB!” fall undergraduate open house, featuring workshops, tours and special presentations, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18.
  • “UB At Sunrise” Speaker to Discuss Solutions to Violence
    10/1/97
    A UB associate professor of surgery who has set up a hospital-based program aimed at keeping trauma patients who are violence victims from repeating their mistakes will speak in a “UB at Sunrise” program on Thursday, Oct. 9.
  • Increase In Drug Resistance For Common Bacterium Termed “Rocket Ship” Based On National Study Bacterium Causes Otitis Media, Pneumonia; Problem Greatest In Southeast
    9/30/97
    By the year 2000, half of the infections caused by the bacterium responsible for 7 million cases of otitis media and 500,000 cases of pneumonia a year in the U.S. will have some resistance to penicillin, a UB researcher warned today.
  • UB Law School Expands Public Service With Externships
    9/30/97
    The University at Buffalo School of Law is expanding its tradition of service to the Western New York community through a new externship course that sends students into the community to work in a variety of assignments.
  • Stuttering Workshops to Be Held At UB On Oct. 18
    9/29/97
    A series of workshops for youngsters and teens who stutter and their parents will be held on Saturday, Oct. 18, on the UB North Campus.