News Releases

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

  • UB Center for the Arts Announces Residency with Doug Varone & Dancers
    2/28/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has announced that Doug Varone & Dancers will be professional artists-in-residence March 12-24. This residency is made possible by a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the Center's Arts in Healthcare Initiative. The company's March 24 public performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.
  • UB to Celebrate Faculty Inventors, Entrepreneurs at Annual Reception
    2/28/12
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate faculty inventors and innovative companies that reside in the UB Technology Incubator during the university's annual Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception on March 1.
  • Second-Year MBAs Capture Top Spot in Case Competition
    2/28/12
    A team of four MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $2,000 prize as winners of the 16th annual UB MBA Case Competition.
  • March Fundraiser Aims Spotlight on UB's Ambitious Tanzania Project
    2/27/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A cooperative effort spearheaded by the University at Buffalo community to improve educational and economic opportunities and health services for girls in Tanzania's remote Mara region continues Friday, March 2, with the Buffalo Tanzania Education Project's second annual fundraiser.
  • Moscow Festival Ballet to Perform Cinderella at UB
    2/27/12
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will present Moscow Festival Ballet in Cinderella on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.
  • Law School Clinic and the Verizon Foundation Team Up to Assist Pet-Owning Domestic Violence Victims
    2/26/12
    Domestic violence victims often remain in abusive relationships to prevent their partner from harming or killing their pets. The University at Buffalo Law School Women, Children, and Social Justice Clinic's new project, Animal Shelter Options for Domestic Violence Victims, is designed to remove this barrier to safety for individuals and their pets.
  • Could Type 2 Diabetes Drug Benefit Teen and Young Adult Type 1 Diabetics?
    2/24/12
    University at Buffalo researchers whose small, preliminary study last year found that liraglutide, used to treat type 2 diabetes, could also help type 1 diabetics, have been awarded a $600,000 grant from the American Diabetes Association to further study the drug in type 1 diabetics.
  • UB Professor Played Key Role in Developing Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Blood Clots
    2/24/12
    A University at Buffalo faculty member has played an important role in the development of new, national guidelines for the prevention and treatment of blood clots (deep vein thromboses and pulmonary embolisms) that have been published by the American College of Chest Physicians.
  • In the Early Universe, Rapid Expansion or Something Very Weird
    2/24/12
    Cosmic inflation explains why the universe is billions of years old, as well as why the universe is nearly flat. But is cosmic inflation the only model that can explain the beginnings of the universe? That's the question that University at Buffalo physicists set out to answer recently.
  • A Rainbow for the Palm of Your Hand
    2/23/12
    University at Buffalo engineers have developed a one-step, low-cost method to fabricate a polymer with extraordinary properties: When viewed from a single perspective, the polymer is rainbow-colored, reflecting many different wavelengths of light.