News Releases

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

  • Women Transcending the Trivial: Food, Fun and Social Justice Trivia with the UB Society of Feminists
    8/16/12
    If you know when doctors claimed education dangerous to women's health or the name of Harriot Blatch's mom, you're in luck. Because most pub trivia questions tend to overlook people of color, women and LGBT folks, the University at Buffalo graduate group Society of Feminists (UBSoFem) has partnered with Merge restaurant and bar to present what they call "an affirming night of historical, current and pop-culture trivia that honors on-going struggles for social justice."
  • UB Archaeologists Digging Up Buffalo's Canalside
    8/15/12
    For several years, teams of University at Buffalo archaeologists from the Buffalo Archaeological Survey have conducted digs in downtown Buffalo along what was the Erie Canal. The artifacts they've found, when considered together, help describe how Buffalonians lived and worked from the early 1800s onward.
  • RIA Gets Close to $1 Million to Study Aspects of Gambling, Alcoholism and Smoking
    8/14/12
    What are the effects of gambling availability among specific populations? How do you control that impulse to have "just one more drink"? Can a spouse really help a loved one quit smoking?
  • School of Management Professor Receives International Honor for Research
    8/13/12
    H. Raghav Rao, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the University at Buffalo School of Management, was honored with international recognition for his research excellence.
  • UB Offers Business Improvement Programs this Fall
    8/10/12
    The University at Buffalo's TCIE is offering a slate of business improvement courses this fall that are designed to help professionals improve their individual job performance, as well as the company they work for.
  • MBA Students Provide Service During Orientation
    8/10/12
    Incoming MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will provide hundreds of hours of community service to local nonprofit organizations on Aug. 21 as part of their entree into the MBA program.
  • UB Anthropology Professor Authors Book on Texas Immigrants
    8/9/12
    Deborah Reed-Danahay, professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo, has recently co-authored her second book with Caroline B. Brettell, a professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
  • New Documentary by UB's Miller Sheds Light on Attica and the Human Costs to Workers, Inmates in Maximum-Security Prisons
    8/8/12
    The scene looks normal -- a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story.
  • UB Grads Help Teachers Enjoy Taking on NYS Core Education Curriculum
    8/7/12
    At a time when "entrepreneurship" often refers to developing a new medical device, engineering method or software application, a successful new pursuit founded by two University at Buffalo graduates sells James Joyce, bioethics and "Notions of the American West."
  • RIA, Gov. Cuomo on Same Page When It Comes to Bath Salts
    8/7/12
    Today, as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced recent New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulations that crack down on bath salts on the University at Buffalo's South Campus, the UB Research Institute on Addictions was releasing another in its series of expert summaries.