News Releases

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

  • Lily Tomlin to Perform at UB on April 28
    3/30/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will welcome Lily Tomlin on Saturday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The performance is presented by Beechwood Continuing Care. A question and answer period will follow the performance.
  • English Department Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Alumni Reunion April 13-14
    3/30/12
    They're coming and there are a lot of them: lawyers, journalists, businessmen and -women, professors, poets, playwrights, teachers, literary scholars, moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas -- all of them among the more than 20,000 students who have graduated from the University at Buffalo's stellar Department of English with a BA, MA or PhD since UB was incorporated into the State University of New York in 1962.
  • Physicists Explain the Collective Motion of Particles Called Fermions
    3/29/12
    Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others. Others, called fermions, have a mind of their own.
  • UB to Host Internationally Acclaimed Young Artists Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch
    3/29/12
    The University at Buffalo Department of Visual Studies, in partnership with New York City's Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, will present a lecture by internationally acclaimed artist Ryan Trecartin, named one of the most influential young artists in the world, and his collaborator, Lizzie Fitch.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present the Musical "Grease"
    3/28/12
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present Grease April 19-21 and 26-28 at 7:30 p.m. and April 22 and 29 at 2 p.m. in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The cast of Grease will be comprised of students from the UB Music Theatre and Dance programs.
  • From Hand-Washing Hygiene to Radiation Disasters, UB Researchers Mark National Public Health Week
    3/28/12
    National Public Health Week, April 2-6, will be observed by the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions with two seminars that are free and open to the public.
  • After 32 Years, Buffalo Authors Revisit the Tragic World of Death Row
    3/28/12
    Bruce Jackson is known in some circles as the dean of prison culture. Since the early 1960s he has been studying the little-known lives and culture of inmates in one of America's oldest penal institutions, the O.B. Ellis Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in the Walker County, Texas.
  • New Study of Employee Substance Use Shows the Need for Supervisor Training
    3/27/12
    To curb employees' on-the-job substance use and intoxication, bosses need to do more than just be around their employees all day, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
  • Afterbirth: Study Asks If We Could Derive Benefits from Ingesting Placenta
    3/27/12
    A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta -- placentophagia -- may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to non-mothers and males.
  • Media Advisory: "Room at the Table" Plan to Improve Erie County Farmlands, Food System to Be Presented March 28
    3/27/12
    "Room at the Table," a detailed plan to strengthen and enhance Erie County farmlands and the county's $9.9 billion food system, will be presented to members of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency March 28 at 8:30 a.m. in the IDA offices, 143 Genesee St., Buffalo.