News Releases

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

  • Celebrate Returning to School at UB's Family Carnival
    8/28/12
    The University at Buffalo's Early Childhood Research Center will celebrate its 80th anniversary in style with a Family Carnival to be held from 1-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, on UB's North Campus.
  • Summer Research Projects take UB Honors College Students to Unexpected Places
    8/28/12
    Most college students spent the last few months back home enjoying the warm weather and their mother's home-cooked meals. However, Haley Arnold, a University at Buffalo sophomore chemistry major, found herself on Sapelo Island, a small unpopulated island off the coast of Georgia, researching algae blooms.
  • UB Expert: Most People Exposed to West Nile Virus Never Have Symptoms, But Prevention is Best Defense in this High Incidence Year
    8/27/12
    While the death toll from the West Nile virus cases in the U.S., currently 41, is alarming, most people exposed to it never develop symptoms, notes Tom Russo, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Hoppity, Hippity, It's Serendipity: UB's Shepard to Present at Venice Architecture Biennale
    8/24/12
    The Venice Architecture Biennale is the most prestigious architecture event in the world, and when the 13th biennale opens on Aug. 29, University at Buffalo innovator Mark Shepard will be there with bells on.
  • West Nile Virus Could Still Have an Impact in WNY, Says UB Professor of Medicine
    8/24/12
    Richard Lee, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, says it's too early to assume that we won't see a spike in cases, even though we are now into late summer.
  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • Solo Performance by Bruce Hornsby Coming to UB Center for the Arts
    8/23/12
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will present Bruce Hornsby -- Solo on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • Opening Weekend Events Welcome Students to UB
    8/23/12
    The University at Buffalo will welcome new and returning students this weekend with the traditional Opening Weekend activities designed to help acclimate incoming students and provide veterans with some fun-filled events before the start of classes on Monday.
  • Beta Alpha Psi Receives National Honors
    8/23/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi was recognized as one of the best in the world, receiving a number of special honors and awards at the organization's international conference in Baltimore in August.
  • UB CEL to Hold Open House for Minority and Women Entrepreneurs
    8/22/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) will host an information session for individuals interested in learning more about the 2013 Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs (MWEE) program.