News Releases

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

$75,000 grant to aid minority and women entrepreneurs
8/15/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A $75,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation will help support initiatives for minority and women entrepreneurs at the University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) while also funding a new pilot program.
RIA awarded five NIH grants totaling more than $6 million
8/15/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) was recently awarded more than $6 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to fund five innovative studies that will expand knowledge on societal ramifications of drug and alcohol use.
Bukowski would’ve turned 93 on Friday. Collection in Buffalo looks at his early years, includes handwritten notes, artwork
8/15/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Hard-living poet Charles Bukowski, once described by Time magazine as the “laureate of American lowlife,” is known for writing about alcohol, turbulent relationships and the slums of Los Angeles.
UB Media Advisory: Researchers use shake tables to replicate California earthquake beneath two-story test building
8/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – On Friday, researchers from The Johns Hopkins University will conduct tests to see how a Southern California earthquake could impact a two-story office building.
UB gets $1 million HRSA grant to educate nurses on oral health
8/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of Nursing has been awarded a $1,120,953 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education training grant for nurse practitioners to work with dental students in interdisciplinary teams, sharing educational and practice experiences that improve oral and systemic care.
UB medical school names Leslie Bisson chair of the Department of Orthopaedics
8/14/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leslie J. Bisson, MD, associate professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Orthopaedics, has been appointed the inaugural June A. and Eugene R. Mindell, MD Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Gene regulator is key to healthy retinal development and good vision in adulthood
8/8/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Scientists are developing a clearer picture of how visual systems develop in mammals. The findings offer important clues to the origin of retinal disorders later in life.
UB offers new online rehabilitation counseling graduate certificate program
8/8/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) will launch a new online advanced graduate certificate program in rehabilitation counseling to begin this fall.
UB offers engineering service grants to small and mid-sized businesses
8/7/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Entrepreneurs and small- to mid-sized businesses in Western New York seeking to enhance their competitive edge can receive up to $25,000 in matching funds for technical assistance from the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Dean Folks ramping up ‘experiential learning’ for engineering students
8/6/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Christine DiGiacomo is rare among college graduates. Not only did she secure a job before earning a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University at Buffalo in May, but her hunt ended before Thanksgiving.