News Releases

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

  • University At Buffalo And Jagiellonian University Produce Book On Libraries And The Democratic Process
    5/24/95
    For nearly 50 years, librarians in Poland were educated, professionally trained and required to work under a central-government library system that severely restricted the collection of vast amounts of published material and limited public and scholarly access to even these restricted collections.
  • Study Highlights Need For More Knowledge of Pain Management Nurses Believe Physicians Are Not Well-Informed On Topic
    5/23/95
    Undermedication is the most important problem of pain management in hospitals, one of the first studies to investigate how nurses assess their knowledge of pain and their skill in alleviating it has shown.
  • UB Pharmacy Dean is Awarded Top Pharmacology Honor
    5/19/95
    David J. Triggle, Ph.D., dean of the School of Pharmacy and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the Otto Krayer Award in Pharmacology by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
  • First Western-Style MBA Program In Eastern Europe, Located In Latvia, Graduates Initial Class University At Buffalo, University of Ottawa Partners In Landmark Effort
    5/17/95
    The first Western-style master's of business administration program in Eastern Europe will graduate its first class Saturday as the result of a U.S.-Canadian effort involving funding from the federal governments of both countries and the faculty and administration at the University at Buffalo and University of Ottawa.
  • UB is Prime Contractor For $1.4 Million Project to Protect San Diego Building From Earthquake Damage
    5/17/95
    The U.S. Department of the Navy has awarded a $1.4 million contract to the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), headquartered at the University at Buffalo, to design and install new seismic-protection technology in a Navy office-supply building in San Diego.
  • Novel Penicillin-Type Structures May Provide Leads On Antibiotics For Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria
    5/16/95
    Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo have, by rearranging the molecular structure of penicillin, recently synthesized several novel classes of penicillin-type chemical structures that may serve as fresh leads in the search for new antibiotics.
  • Hiv-Positive Children Do Not Develop Hiv-Related Oral Lesions Despite Harboring Lesion-Causing Bacteria, Study Shows
    5/15/95
    A University at Buffalo dental study designed to determine the extent of peridontal lesions in HIV-positive children and to find ways to relieve or alleviate them, has found that most of the children examined didn't have the lesions, despite harboring the disease-causing bacteria in their mouths.
  • Interest In Simpson Trial Not As Great As Media Indicates UB Survey Also Finds Prosecution Favored Over Defense, Few Believe O.J. Will Be Convicted
    5/11/95
    Americans appear to have tuned out the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, and are not following the events as closely as the extensive media coverage would indicate, according to a national survey conducted by a University at Buffalo researcher.
  • First Human Trial Shows Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function In Desperately Ill Preemies
    5/10/95
    An experimental treatment for life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome, developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, is safe and can save the lives of seriously ill premature infants, results of a five-center pilot study have shown.
  • Nolan Elected to Mastership In Physicians College
    5/9/95
    James P. Nolan, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and chief of medicine at The Buffalo General Hospital, has been elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians.