News Releases

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo engineers will receive $50,000 from the statewide SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) to build a commercial prototype of a metrology system they have invented.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – On April 28, the University at Buffalo, as part of the Roadster Clinical trial, performed a procedure for the first time on the east coast known as the Silk Road system — a less-invasive surgical treatment of carotid artery disease for high-risk patients.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Manitoba has found that consumption of high amounts of low-fat dairy food over a six-month period improved a marker of insulin resistance in healthy adults but had no ill effect on body weight and composition, energy expenditure, blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood lipid and lipoprotein responses.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sarbajit Banerjee, co-director of the University at Buffalo’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, delivered a fast-paced “moonshot” proposal in Washington, D.C. this month as part of Solve for X @ Global Diaspora Forum.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Peter L. Elkin, MD, formerly vice president and professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and director of its Center for Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed professor and founding chair of the University at Buffalo’s new Department of Biomedical Informatics, starting this summer.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo is reinventing itself and leaving its Rust Belt image behind with a new crop of talented physicians and faculty members recently recruited to all units of UB, especially its growing downtown medical campus.

June in Buffalo (JIB) is back, and it is even more high-end than usual this year with a spectacular selection of internationally known senior composers and critically acclaimed individual artists and guest artists, one of whom, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen, will receive an honorary doctorate from SUNY.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Three more University at Buffalo faculty members have been appointed to the ranks of distinguished professors by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo is among six public research universities from across the country recognized in a new report by the New America Foundation for “embracing key strategies that make them models for national reform.”