News Releases

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

  • New Study Offers Hope of Better Treatment, Possible Cure For Urinary-Tract Infections In Women Suggests Same, Not Different, Bacteria Cause Recurring Infections
    9/8/95
    New findings on the causes of recurrent urinary-tract infections in women, reported by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Washington, may lead to better treatment and, possibly, a permanent cure.
  • "Designer Enzyme" Illuminates Subtle Difference Between Plant And Animal Protein
    9/6/95
    University at Buffalo biochemists have taken an enzyme from a bacterium found in plants and genetically engineered a mutant that requires zinc to function, a property normally found in the animal version of the enzyme.
  • UB Dental School to Care For Underserved Children With Gebbie Foundation-Funded Rural Mobile Dental Clinic
    8/28/95
    Children in Chautauqua County who may never have seen a dentist will get regular checkups in a mobile dental clinic made possible by a grant to the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine from the Gebbie Foundation, Inc.
  • Show & Tell Image-Understanding Software System "Looks," "Listens," Stores And Retrieves
    8/25/95
    A new image-understanding software system that catalogues, annotates, stores and retrieves images based on its "world-knowledge" and verbal instructions from a human user has been developed by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • PCBs In Great Lakes Fish Don't Cause Fetal Loss, Study Finds
    8/18/95
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo have found no link between consumption of PCB-contaminated sport fish and a history of spontaneous fetal death or spontaneous abortion in humans.
  • Johnstone Receives Ford Foundation Grant to Establish National Learning Productivity Network
    7/31/95
    D. Bruce Johnstone, University Professor of Higher Education in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has been advancing a new perspective on the old challenge of productivity in higher education.
  • On The Web: National Address Server, Developed At UB, Provides Complete Nine-Digit Zip Code For Any U.S. Address
    7/27/95
    Users of the WorldWideWeb now have access to the National Address Server, a system developed at the University at Buffalo that provides the ZIP+4 code for any residential or commercial address in the U.S.
  • Patient Simulator, Cutting-Edge Training System, is Potential Addition to UB's Health-Care Teaching Arsenal
    7/21/95
    The University at Buffalo School of Nursing expects to acquire SAM, the Simulated Anesthesiology Mannikin that shows how the body responds to various drugs and adverse conditions in a safe but realistic clinical environment.
  • UB Archivist Co-Authors First History of State's Quakers
    7/17/95
    Christopher Densmore, University at Buffalo associate archivist, has a principle research interest: the early history of New York's Quakers, who, though nominal in number, have had enormous influence on American life and polity.
  • Creeley Receives Fulbright Grant to Lecture In New Zealand
    7/13/95
    Robert Creeley, Samuel Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to spend three months lecturing at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.