News Releases

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

  • Central Library Exhibition of Proposed Medical School Designs Calls for Public Input
    5/23/12
    The Central Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library will host an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Historian Explores Overseas Racial Battles of Iconic American Boxer Jack Johnson
    5/22/12
    A new book about cocky, flamboyant, subversive boxing champion Jack Johnson -- the first black man to take the heavyweight crown -- goes beyond his infamous battles with Jim Crow, the seven-year search for a "Great White Hope" to defeat him, and even his unjust conviction under the Mann Act against white slave trafficking.
  • Plaintiffs Face Greater Obstacles in Discrimination Suits, Study Shows
    5/22/12
    University at Buffalo Sociology Professors Ellen Berrey, PhD, and Steve G. Hoffman, PhD, have co-authored a study that shows plaintiffs' limited resources and tumultuous experiences in employment discrimination lawsuits lead them to see this litigation as profoundly unfair.
  • Media Advisory: Kaleida Health and UB to Hold Ribbon-Cutting for GVI/CTRC
    5/21/12
    Buffalo, N.Y. -- Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo will officially open the new Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, May 24 at 11 a.m. in the fifth floor atrium of the new building at Goodrich and Ellicott Streets on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  • Good News for Nanomedicine: Quantum Dots Appear Safe in Pioneering Study on Primates
    5/21/12
    A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases like cancer through nanomedicine.
  • A Possible Target for Broad-Range HPV Therapeutics Emerges
    5/21/12
    A University at Buffalo microbiologist has identified a protein interaction that could present the first viable, broad-range HPV drug target. This protein sequence in the viral DNA synthesis system is not only necessary for HPV synthesis, it is highly conserved between all HPV isotypes.
  • Three UB Students Win Prestigious Fulbright Awards
    5/21/12
    Three University at Buffalo students have received prestigious Fulbright Fellowships, the most recent class in what has become a UB tradition of multiple winners in the highly competitive, nationally-recognized scholarly competition.
  • 2012 Venture Forum Connects Investors With Promising Technologies From New York State and Ontario, Canada
    5/18/12
    Investors and entrepreneurs from across the Great Lakes region convened in Buffalo May 16-17 for the 2012 Venture Forum, which featured networking and deal-making in high-tech sectors.
  • A $1 Billion Question: Are Stream Restoration Projects Working?
    5/18/12
    The nation's $1 billion stream restoration industry needs to do more to ensure that projects are guided by science, according to the UB co-editor of a new American Geophysical Union monograph reviewing the state of the field.
  • UB Chair of Neurology is Organizer of Major, International Meeting on Myasthenia Gravis in New York City
    5/18/12
    Gil I. Wolfe, MD, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will play a major role in the 12th International Conference on Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders, May 20 - 23 in New York City.