News Releases

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

Greenland’s shrunken ice sheet: We’ve been here before
11/22/13
Clues in the Arctic fossil record suggest that 3-5,000 years ago, the ice sheet was the smallest it has been in the past 10,000 years.
School of Management names winners in accounting competition
11/21/13
A team of five undergraduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $1,000 prize as winners of the 10th annual Challenge, the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) case competition.
Heavy drinking is bad for marriage if one spouse drinks, but not both
11/21/13
Do drinking and marriage mix? That depends on who’s doing the drinking — and how much — according to a recent study by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
Infrared vision lets researchers see through — and into — multiple layers of graphene
11/21/13
A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed a technique for studying individual sheets of graphene in a stack — even when the sheets are covering each other up.
Does obesity reshape our sense of taste?
11/21/13
Obesity may alter the way we taste at the most fundamental level: by changing how our tongues react to different foods.
UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership to launch family business initiative
11/20/13
Beginning in February 2014, family business owners can take advantage of a new initiative designed exclusively for them.
College marketing can prey on disadvantaged students, UB researcher says
11/20/13
Add another barrier disadvantaged students looking to go to college face when negotiating the maze of a successful higher education: Too many of these students conduct an unfocused, disorganized approach to finding the right college, making them too impressionable to marketing from colleges that may not fit their academic or economic needs.
Graduate course to break down 'Breaking Bad'
11/19/13
Bruce Jackson developed “Breaking Down ‘Breaking Bad,’” a graduate seminar for the spring 2014 semester, that will analyze the critically acclaimed series’ realistic storyline, development and execution.
Prasad receives honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology
11/18/13
UB Professor Paras Prasad's pioneering work in biophotonics could lead to health care improvements like ultrasensitive biomaging and light-activated therapies.
Undergraduates to study medicinal plants, culture of healing in Peru
11/18/13
UB undergraduate students will travel to northern Peru next summer to conduct rigorous interdisciplinary research into the biological and chemical properties of indigenous medicinal plants.