News Releases

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

  • UB Student Awarded Research Grant to Stop the Noise
    5/30/12
    University at Buffalo neuroscience PhD student Sarah Hayes has won a $10,000 grant from the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) to aid her in her search for the causes of tinnitus.
  • UB Chair of Medicine is Honored by Heart Rhythm Society for Distinguished Service
    5/30/12
    Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the Heart Rhythm Society.
  • For Every Dollar Spent, Award to UB Emergency Department Should Save $2 on WNY Health Care Costs
    5/30/12
    The $2.57 million federal Health Care Innovation Award, granted earlier this month to the University at Buffalo, is expected to save at least $2 in health care costs in Western New York for every dollar provided, says G. Richard Braen, MD, principal investigator, chair of the UB Department of Emergency Medicine and associate dean of graduate medical education at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Program Will Bring Diversity to Biomedical and Behavioral Science
    5/29/12
    The University at Buffalo has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the education of 20 new biomedical and behavioral scientists from underrepresented groups between now and 2016.
  • First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB
    5/29/12
    Seeing the Rocky Mountains usually tops the list of things to do when visiting Colorado. Not for Shannon Seneca, who vacationed there after graduating high school 15 years ago. Upon landing in Denver, she headed straight for the Rocky Flats Plant, a former nuclear weapons production facility.
  • Wallenda's High-Wire Walk: Experts Weigh in on Water Plumes, Crowd Psychology and Angry Falcons
    5/29/12
    On June 15, high-wire artist Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope -- the first such attempt in more than 100 years. University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss the nature of such spectacles, their role in popular culture, the Niagara mist plume, crowd psychology and the kinds of risks involved in this venture.
  • UB Releases Statement Regarding Shale Resources and Society Institute
    5/25/12
    On May 15, the institute released its first report, "Environmental Impacts During Marcellus Shale Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies." In the days since, some criticisms of the authors' conclusions have been raised. UB will examine all relevant concerns, in accordance with the university's strong commitment to academic and research excellence.
  • Rewarding Excellence: Dental School Dean Receives Oral Medicine's Highest Academic Honor
    5/25/12
    Michael Glick, DMD, professor of oral medicine and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been presented with the highest academic award given by the American Academy of Oral Medicine (AAOM), conferred at their 66th annual meeting in April.
  • Talking Works: UB Professor Develops Method to Analyze Creative Problem Solving
    5/24/12
    Talk -- if it's the right kind -- can increase creativity, leading students to create useful, new ideas that solve problems, a University at Buffalo professor has found by using a statistical tool that he invented.
  • Kaleida Health and University at Buffalo Officially Open Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center
    5/24/12
    The effort to transform Buffalo into a world-class health care destination and expand the University at Buffalo's (UB) campus in downtown Buffalo took another major step forward today as Kaleida Health and UB opened a new 10-story vascular institute and research building.