News Releases

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

UB’s ‘Gettin’ Dirty’ spring clean-up project targets Buffalo neighborhoods
4/5/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Hundreds of University at Buffalo students will fan out with paint brushes and shovels throughout Buffalo’s Fruit Belt and other neighborhoods Saturday as part of the university’s ‘Gettin’ Dirty’ project to help clean local gardens, parks and other community gathering spots.
UB geography major is finalist for prestigious Truman Scholarship
4/4/13
BUFFALO, NY—Only 20 years old, Christine Tjahjadi-Lopez, a junior geography major at the University at Buffalo, has completed most of her bucket list: she has visited her grandmother in Indonesia, won an oversized check and donated a large sum of money to a charity.
Media advisory: Contest will give UB students 90 seconds to pitch a business idea
4/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — How fast can you pitch an idea? On April 10, University at Buffalo students will find out at a campus-wide elevator pitch competition. Participants will get 90 seconds each to pitch an idea for solving a problem to a panel of expert judges.
Davis Hall earns LEED gold for eco-friendly features
4/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo engineers and their students are improving the environment in Western New York and beyond.
UB’s Creative Scientist workshop focuses on boosting innovation in biomedical science
4/3/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Creative scientist. To the general public, those words don’t belong together. Popular conceptions suggest that scientists rely on facts and proof, not creativity. And creativity has not typically been part of a scientist’s training.
Heavy lifting by UB students aims to help revive the Heights neighborhood
4/3/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – They are called PULL projects – multiyear Pop-Up Living Laboratories – whose aim is to promote economic stabilization, neighborhood revitalization, crime reduction and a prosperous business district in the Heights neighborhood surrounding the University at Buffalo South Campus.
Trivedi Receives Fulbright Award
4/2/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Minakshi Trivedi, PhD, professor of marketing and chair of the doctoral program in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award.
UB physics students will introduce kids to the magic of science at Buffalo Museum of Science camp
4/1/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Children between 8 and 12 years old will learn about levitating magnets, floating superconductors and cool (no pun intended) things you can do with liquid nitrogen on Tuesday, April 2 at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the Buffalo Museum of Science (1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo).
UB’s Panasci Entrepreneurship Competition enters final round
3/29/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The team that presents the best plan for launch of a viable new business will receive $25,000 in start-up funding in the final round of the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).
Jaekyung Lee chosen as fellow in prestigious international education group
3/29/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Jaekyung Lee, PhD, interim dean and professor in the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education, has been named fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the largest and most prestigious organization of educational researchers in the world.