News Releases

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

  • UB's "Improvising Consciousness Medicine Show"
    7/20/12
    For some time now, Josephine Anstey, associate professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been working with audience participants to explore not only the history, but the experience of diverse and radical theories of mind. She does this through interactive performance workshops she calls "Improvising Consciousness Medicine Shows."
  • The UB DNP: Faculty and Students on the Frontlines of Health
    7/20/12
    What kind of advanced degree is available to an RN who loves patient care?
  • UB CAT Awards More Than $415,000 to 16 WNY Companies Developing Life Sciences Technologies
    7/18/12
    The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT) has awarded more than $415,000 to companies in Western New York to aid them in the development of new life sciences technologies.
  • Architect's 'Bat Cloud' Brings a Remarkable, Afflicted Animal Out of the Shadows and into the Light
    7/18/12
    A dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Farm, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world's most misunderstood species: bats.
  • RIA Gets $3 Million to Continue Studying Children Exposed to Cigarette Smoke
    7/17/12
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions has received a $3 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study the behavioral and biological differences between children exposed to cigarette smoking and those not exposed.
  • Media Advisory: Children to Learn about Renewable Energy and Art at UB's Solar Strand
    7/17/12
    About 15 children will learn about renewable energy, art and sustainability at the University at Buffalo's Solar Strand from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday
  • Man-made Pores Mimic Important Features of Natural Pores
    7/17/12
    Inspired by nature, an international research team has created synthetic pores that mimic the activity of cellular ion channels, which play a vital role in human health by severely restricting the types of materials allowed to enter cells.
  • UB Department of Medicine Names Head of Gastroenterology Division
    7/17/12
    Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College has been named chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition in the University at Buffalo's Department of Medicine; he also has been appointed UB professor of medicine.
  • UB Researchers 'Measure the Magic' at Cradle Beach
    7/16/12
    For Tim Boling, July is an important time of year. For the next five weeks, he will have 800 schoolchildren on his hands, a thought that would cause the average adult to become wide-eyed and hyperventilate into a brown paper bag. Boling, though, is not anxious; in fact, he is looking forward to it. For these few weeks every summer, he is among the privileged few with the opportunity to witness something remarkable. Boling is the CEO of Cradle Beach, a nonprofit organization located along the shore of Lake Erie.
  • Real-life Spider Men Using Protein Found in Venom to Develop Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
    7/16/12
    When a stockbroker from the Buffalo suburbs discovered that his grandson had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he turned to UB researchers for help in developing a treatment.