News Releases

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

  • Flu Season Has Begun, but Most College Students Ignore the Vaccine
    9/27/12
    Influenza spreads like wildfire on college campuses because of high-density living conditions. Its symptoms -- weakness, muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhea are unpleasant but usually not serious, although many people get very sick and thousands die every year in the U.S. from complications of the flu.
  • Glen Campbell to Bring The Goodbye Tour to UB Center for the Arts
    9/26/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Glen Campbell: The Goodbye Tour on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • New Finance Track Prepares Wall Street "Rock Stars'
    9/26/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Management is offering a new concentration that can help students land jobs as quantitative analysts -- or "quants" -- the latest variety of Wall Street rock stars.
  • UB Awards Civic Engagement Research Fellowships
    9/25/12
    The University at Buffalo's UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy strategic initiative (CEPP) has awarded five new Civic Engagement Research Fellowships for 2012-13 to UB scholars in fields of communications and health sciences, education, law and social work.
  • National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba to Perform First American Tour Oct. 22
    9/25/12
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will present the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba on Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • UB Partners with Zimbabwe Universities to Create International Nanotechnology Center
    9/24/12
    With 14 percent of Zimbabwe's population living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis as a co-infection, the need for new drugs and new formulations of available treatments is crucial
  • UB Anthropologist to be Named Honorary Chief of Nigerian Town
    9/24/12
    Along the quiet corridors of the University at Buffalo Department of Anthropology labors a man who, unknown to his colleagues, has been a hero to the Igbomina Yoruba town of Esie (ess-ee-YEH) in southwest Nigeria for nearly five decades.
  • J. Craig Venter Receives Honorary Doctorate, Extols Virtues of the CTRC, UB's Newest Research Facility
    9/24/12
    J. Craig Venter, PhD, the pioneering biologist who led the first team to sequence the human genome, received a State University of New York Honorary Doctorate in Science at the University at Buffalo on Sept. 20. The honorary degree was conferred on him at a ceremony that followed the grand opening of UB's Clinical and Translational Research Center in the joint UB-Kaleida Health building in downtown Buffalo.
  • UB Humanities Institute to Showcase Work of SUNY Distinguished Professor Jorge Gracia
    9/21/12
    The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute will honor Jorge J.E. Gracia, PhD, Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, on Sept. 28 at its Annual Scholar Session.
  • Professor's Book Reveals the "Silent Epidemic" of Health Hazards Caused by Coal
    9/21/12
    Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, University at Buffalo emeritus professor of neurology.