News Releases

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

Chemical sensing chip sniffs out cocaine within minutes
5/7/18
New technology could one day lead to portable drug detectors.
UB architecture students to unveil “Ritual Space,” a new installation at Artpark
5/4/18
Members of the media and the public are invited to an opening reception at Artpark from 4-6 p.m. May 7 to check out the project featuring 10 wooden structures designed and built by students in UB's freshman architecture studio.
Media Advisory: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to hold 172nd commencement on UB North Campus
5/3/18
Shanté White, former UB track star and School of Nursing alum, is among MD graduates.
Graduate School of Education earns Cullen Grant to cultivate better teachers
5/3/18
The grant will support a UB program to cultivate a “racially, ethnically, linguistically diverse teaching force” in the city’s schools.
Media Advisory: Downtown medical campus leaders will discuss the future of health care in Western New York
5/3/18
Members of the media and the general public are invited to a panel discussion among leaders of the major Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus institutions on Saturday, May 5 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify water with near-perfect efficiency
5/3/18
Low-cost device — shaped like a birdhouse — could help provide drinking water to people affected by natural disasters.
Newly improved glass slide turns microscopes into thermometers
5/2/18
The advancement could streamline and boost scientific research all over the world, help computing industry.
Neuroscientists receive grant to study shuttling proteins
5/2/18
Two researchers in UB's Research Institute on Addictions will expand on their work exploring the brain’s endocannabinoid system as a result of a two-year, $427,000 grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Rudin is named SPIE Fellow for advancing medical physics
5/2/18
Stephen Rudin, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Radiology, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Media advisory: Leadership conference to feature best-selling author Adam Grant
5/1/18
Leaders from the business, nonprofit and academic worlds will come together for a conference focused on the power of people-oriented leadership.