News Releases

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

  • Photorefractive Polymers Perform Better Than Costly Inorganic Materials, UB Scientists Report
    8/22/94
    A new generation of inexpensive, organic polymers with special optical properties has surpassed the performance of the costly conventional materials they may one day replace, University at Buffalo scientists have found.
  • Computer Becomes A Microscope For Some UB Medical Students First-Year Students Examine Tissues of The Body Using Computers
    8/22/94
    Histology -- the study of minute animal and plant tissues -- normally may be a dry subject, but putting lab work on the computer screen may spice it up and save students large amounts of time, according to a scientist at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB's Ronald Named Fellow In American Academy of Nursing
    8/19/94
    Judith S. Ronald, Ed.D., R.N., associate professor of nursing and coordinator of nursing informatics in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
  • Bruckenstein to Receive Faraday Medal
    8/19/94
    Stanley Bruckenstein, Ph.D., A. Conger Goodyear professor of chemistry at the University of Buffalo, has been awarded the Faraday Medal by the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • UB Professor Urges Use of Case Studies to Improve Science Instruction, U.S. Scientific Literacy O.J. Simpson Case Already Utilized In Classroom Study of Dna Fingerprinting
    8/19/94
    As was the case with his televised preliminary hearing, O.J. Simpson's murder trial is going to be a legal classroom for Americans.
  • Professor Encourages Parents to Resist Perennial Pleas For Expensive Back-to-School Clothing Says Children Can Be Taught to Be Smart Shoppers
    8/18/94
    Parents may cringe as they anticipate the battles that are looming as the back-to-school shopping season arrives. Yet they can weather the pleas for $150 sneakers and $200 jackets by taking charge and teaching their children to be educated shoppers, a University at Buffalo marketing professor advises.
  • $276,000 Grant From U.S. Education Department to Allow UB Law Clinic to Expand Aid to Victims of Domestic Violence
    8/17/94
    A three-year, $276,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the University at Buffalo School of Law to expand its domestic violence clinical program from part-time to full-time status and to enlarge its focus to include the entire family, not just the spouse or partner.
  • UB Faculty Members Suggest Designing Video Games For Girls
    8/16/94
    Designing video games specifically for girls isn't sexist. In fact, it may help raise girls' self-esteem and foster an interest in computers, two University at Buffalo faculty members say.
  • UB Receives Getty Grant For Martin House Conservation
    8/16/94
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has been awarded a $91,000 Project Implementation Grant from the Getty Grant Program to help fund conservation of the Darwin D. Martin House on Jewett Parkway.
  • Social Support During Pregnancy Linked to Birth Outcomes
    8/12/94
    The support of family and friends during pregnancy can make a difference in the health and well-being of both mother and child, a University at Buffalo psychologist reported today (Friday, Aug. 12) at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.