News Releases

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

  • Beyond the Motorist: Summit to Explore How 'Complete Streets' Can Change the Way We Live
    4/16/12
    How can streets that accommodate pedestrians, cyclists and transit users influence a region's environment, prosperity, health and livability? That's the theme of the Buffalo Complete Streets Summit, a two-day symposium from April 19-20.
  • Better Care for Some Elderly Patients Means Less Intervention, Says UB Geriatrics Specialist
    4/13/12
    To provide elderly, hospitalized patients with the best care possible, the medical community needs to reevaluate its reliance on medical technologies, says Bruce J. Naughton, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and a specialist in geriatrics, which deals specifically with the problems of aging.
  • Fourth Citizen Police Academy Class Graduates at UB
    4/13/12
    University at Buffalo Police held its fourth Citizen's Police Academy graduation at UB's South Lake Village Community Center on April 11, honoring 21 participants who received certificates for successfully completing the eight-week program, which began Feb. 15.
  • Students must trust the source of emergency alerts in order to act quickly, new research shows
    4/12/12
    In the wake of the deadly shooting this month at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., experts from the University at Buffalo offer perspectives from their research into ways to encourage students to immediately comply with "alert" messages sent during an on-campus emergency.
  • Do Dental X-rays Cause Brain Tumors? UB Experts Available to Discuss
    4/12/12
    Experts from the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine are available to discuss the recent study conducted by researchers at Yale School of Medicine that finds that regardless of age, those who had "bitewing" dental x-rays yearly or more frequently were at 40 - 90 percent higher risk to be diagnosed with a brain tumor.
  • Media Advisory: Climate Change -- Its Impact on WNY Planning and Policy Making
    4/12/12
    The impact of climate change on local planning and policymaking in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area will be the subject of a free public talk April 13 by Himanshu Grover, PhD, assistant professor of urban and regional planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and a specialist in the field.
  • 'Diversity in Disability' Symposium Brings Renowned Advocates to UB
    4/12/12
    Ari Ne'eman, founding president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, will be among speakers at "Diversity in Disability," a University at Buffalo symposium on the role that disability plays in diversity and the formulation of identity.
  • June in Buffalo 2012: Once More With Brio!
    4/12/12
    Since it was founded in 1975, June in Buffalo has been a landmark on the new music scene, a gathering place for musical visionaries and their works -- several generations of the finest composers on the international scene.
  • To Teach Kids Math, Researcher Devises 'Brain Games'
    4/11/12
    The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the world of math. That's the discerning approach of University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education professor Ming Ming Chiu, and it's based on decades of teaching teachers and watching how students learn.
  • NASA Astrophysicist to Discuss the 'History of the Universe, in a Nutshell'
    4/11/12
    A senior astrophysicist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will regale guests of the University at Buffalo with a brief history of the universe. John Mather, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who specializes in infrared astronomy and cosmology, will deliver the UB Department of Physics' 18th annual Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 20 at 5 p.m. in 225 Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North Campus in Amherst, N.Y.