News Releases

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

  • UB Offers 1,500 Free Tickets for Distinguished Speakers Series Lecture with Soledad O'Brien
    1/13/12
    The University at Buffalo is offering free tickets to local community and religious organizations and churches and to Western New York high schools to attend UB's 36th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration event featuring Soledad O'Brien, CNN anchor, special correspondent and author.
  • New Bioanalytical Instrumentation Updates International Pharmacology Training Lab
    1/12/12
    Chiedza Maponga '88, director of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) pharmacy program, knows that he alone can't treat the hundreds of thousands of patients with HIV in his native country. But he believes he can do it with help. This year, help arrived in the form of four graduate students who traveled with Maponga from Zimbabwe to the University at Buffalo to train in a collaborative program that prepares them to treat HIV/AIDS patients.
  • Culture Weighs Heavily on Chinese Caregivers over Nursing Home Placement, Study Finds
    1/12/12
    Chinese families must confront very specific cultural hurdles when placing a relative with dementia in a nursing home, according to a recently published UB study.
  • The Pink Floyd Experience Is Coming to the UB Center for the Arts
    1/12/12
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Pink Floyd Experience on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • UB Restructures Research Office to Emphasize Economic Development
    1/11/12
    The University at Buffalo has reorganized its research office to better reflect the university's continued commitment to economic development.
  • Women Are 'Socially' Networked, Study Shows
    1/10/12
    Bloggers and other social network users are more likely to share knowledge online where the qualities of trust, strong social ties and reciprocity are present, according to a study forthcoming in the Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • UB's MCEER Sets Foundation for Rebuilding Haiti, One Engineer at a Time
    1/10/12
    A new building on the Quisqueya University (UniQ) campus in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides some of the most powerful evidence yet that Haiti's engineering community, with international assistance from the University at Buffalo and MCEER, is undergoing a dramatic transformation.
  • An Invitation to Lose Your 21st Century Western Mind
    1/10/12
    The University at Buffalo Intermedia Performance Studio, in collaboration with Buffalo's Subversive Theatre Collective, will present several free public events this weekend designed to help members of the audience not only understand, but actually experience, three very different theories of how the mind works.
  • National Institute Director Ranks UB Researcher's Work In Top Five Findings of 2011
    1/10/12
    Thomas R. Insel, MD, director of the National Institute for Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health, has selected research by a University at Buffalo professor as one of the top five most important findings of 2011. In his Director's blog on the "NIMH's Top Ten Research Advances of 2011," Insel includes at number five "Epigenomics: How Experience Alters Behavior" and references research by David Dietz, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB's Millard Fillmore College Returns to Downtown Buffalo
    1/9/12
    The administrative offices of the University at Buffalo's Millard Fillmore College (MFC) have moved to the UB Downtown Gateway, formerly the M. Wile & Co. building, at 77 Goodell St. in Buffalo.