News Releases

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

  • Study Links Gum Disease and HPV-status of Head and Neck Cancer
    6/20/12
    Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), once almost exclusively associated with cancer of the cervix, is now linked to head and neck cancer. According to a new University at Buffalo study just published in the Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery, a JAMA publication, gum disease is associated with increased odds of tumors being HPV-positive.
  • Report: Health Care Reform Must be Local, Regardless of Court Decision
    6/20/12
    Even with an imminent Supreme Court ruling on the health care overhaul law, it's still the primary care physician and the local community that will determine the path of true health care reform. That's the message from "Communities of Solution: The Folsom Report Revisited," a policy paper published online in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
  • RIA Is Recognized for Its Culture of Creativity, Passion and Science
    6/20/12
    The University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), known for its groundbreaking research on addictive behavior in all its forms, is featured this month in the international journal Addiction as part of a series on addiction research centers and the nurturing of creativity.
  • UB School of Management Graduates 25 Executive MBAs
    6/19/12
    Twenty-five Western New York business professionals have graduated from the Executive MBA program in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • At Attorney General Holder's Request, UB Expert on Police Health Will Participate in Law Enforcement Summit
    6/18/12
    John Violanti, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine in the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions, will participate in a Law Enforcement Executives Summit on June 27 at the invitation of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  • Animal Architecture: Rescued Bee Colony Gets New Waterfront Home
    6/18/12
    A massive and thriving colony of bees living in an abandoned industrial site in Buffalo has been moved into a brand new home, designed for them by architecture graduate students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB Study Finds that Assessments and Incentives for Medical Faculty Productivity Improve Research
    6/18/12
    Strategies introduced to assess -- and reward -- the productivity of faculty at academic medical centers in the U.S. do improve faculty research productivity, according to a systematic review recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
  • UB Medical Student and Manager at Lighthouse Free Clinic Receives AMA Minority Scholars Award
    6/15/12
    Michael J. Blanco, a third-year medical student at the University at Buffalo, has won an American Medical Association Foundation 2012 Minority Scholars Award.
  • Man Sought in Shooting is Found Dead, Buffalo Police Report
    6/15/12
    The Buffalo Police Department has reported that Dr. Timothy V. Jorden Jr., a person of interest in the fatal shooting of Jacqueline Wisniewski at the Erie County Medical Center on June 13, has been found dead today, June 15.
  • UB Expert on Hypertension Receives Award from American Society of Hypertension
    6/15/12
    Joseph L. Izzo, Jr., MD, University at Buffalo professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has been awarded the American Society of Hypertension's Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Awarded for 2012.