News Releases

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

Navy’s next chief nurse receives UB alumni award
6/10/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, Navy chief of staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and a 1981 graduate of the UB School of Nursing, recently came back to her alma mater to receive the school’s 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award.
UB Police host first local honor guard training for law enforcement
6/6/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo Police this week welcome almost 50 police and law enforcement officers from throughout New York State taking part in the first police honor guard training of its kind in the Western New York area.
UB Law School presents student awards
6/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Graduating law student Aaron M. Saykin of Buffalo was among the top honorees at this year’s University at Buffalo Law School commencement awards, chosen by the faculty and dean as the student who exemplified the highest standards of the profession by virtue of scholastic achievement, leadership and dedication to the ideals of the law.
UB, Empire Genomics partner with Life Technologies to accelerate innovative, genetics-based clinical research in Western New York
6/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. and CARLSBAD, Calif. — Empire Genomics, Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) and the University at Buffalo will embark on a new partnership to develop world-class gene sequencing facilities for genetics-based clinical research on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The renegade engineers of electronics
6/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jonathan Bird and Uttam Singisetti don’t act like renegades – both dress neatly and are polite in conversation.
The nation’s first oral biology PhD program turns 50
6/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine established the first Department of Oral Biology in the U.S. in 1960. Three years later, UB created the first PhD program in oral biology in a dental school.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Come on down!! UB’s summer Erie Canal archeological dig begins June 5
6/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – UB and the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation present an opportunity for visitors – including children – to learn what archaeologists do, how they work and what they can teach us about life along the terminus of the Erie Canal in Buffalo.
UB researchers have developed and validated a new diagnostic test for chronic sinusitis
6/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Clinical studies conducted at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have completed the clinical development of the first immunologic test for diagnosing chronic rhinosinusitis.
Redefining graduate enrollment management
6/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – As colleges and universities grapple with rising tuition costs, ensuring that their graduates find jobs and other challenges, they are reassessing how they do business.
UB’s literacy center celebrates golden anniversary with two-day reunion and literacy conference
6/3/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction (CLaRI) will mark its 50 year of helping children read, write and gain confidence in their academic skills with a conference and alumni gathering that celebrates its timeless theme of literacy.