News Releases

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

  • Buck Receives Fellowship to Study Tubal Ligation
    8/11/94
    Germaine S. Buck, Ph.D., assistant professor of social and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, has won one of two fellowships sponsored annually by the Merck Company Foundation and the Society for Epidemiology Research.
  • UB to Organize Primary-Care Initiatives Under Regional Network
    8/11/94
    In an effort to help meet the nationwide shortage of primary-care physicians, the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will combine its various initiatives designed to attract more medical students and undergraduates to the primary-care field under one umbrella organization.
  • New University At Buffalo Gallery to Expand Regional Art Menu
    8/10/94
    An ambitious new art gallery will open on Oct. 28 in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, itself a brand new, $41.8 million structure designed by the award-winning New York architectural team of Gwathmey and Siegal.
  • Murphy Named Investigator of The Year By Research Group
    8/10/94
    Timothy Murphy, M.D., professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo, has been named investigator of the year by the American Federation of Clinical Research -- Eastern Region.
  • Dna Fingerprinting Class Teaches UB Students to Finger A Killer
    8/9/94
    Results of DNA testing in the O.J. Simpson murder trial may not be revealed for weeks, but on Wednesday, Aug. 10, students in a University at Buffalo biology course will be using models of such tests to "convict" a murderer in a hypothetical case.
  • Noonan Named Associate Vice Provost At UB; Kaars Appointed Director of Academic Advisement
    8/9/94
    The Office of the Provost at the University at Buffalo has made two appointments in the area of undergraduate education.
  • University At Buffalo Law School to Implement New Curriculum Designed to Help Graduates "Hit The Ground Running" Program Designed to Better Prepare Graduates For Legal Practice
    8/8/94
    The University at Buffalo School of Law this fall will implement a curriculum designed to counter the widespread concern that law schools are not adequately preparing their graduates to practice law.
  • When Drinking's Involved, White Teens Are More Likely Than Blacks to Engage In Risky Sexual Behavior, UB Study Says
    8/8/94
    Adolescents who drink or use drugs are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior and, when drinking is involved, whites teens are much more apt to engage in risky behavior than blacks, a study by University at Buffalo psychologists has found.
  • Curator of UB Poetry Collection Wins Fulbright Award
    8/5/94
    Robert J. Bertholf, curator of the University at Buffalo Poetry/Rare Books Collection, has been awarded a senior lectureship by the Fulbright Commission to teach American Studies at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, during the Fall 1994 semester.
  • Study Shows Most With Condition Do Not Develop Sepsis, Contrary to Definitions Set By Medical Groups
    8/2/94
    To identify hospital patients at risk for severe sepsis, the most common cause of death in hospital intensive-care units, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society for Critical Care Medicine two years ago adopted new definitions of sepsis and conditions that precede it.