News Releases

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

  • After 10 years, with a Little Help from Buffalo, Architect Barbie Emerges as Icon of the Building Trades
    5/11/11
    Move over, Howard Roark! There's a new architect in town and she's not afraid of the color pink. Mattel's Architect Barbie, icon of the building trades, is ready for launch.
  • An Eighth Grade Teacher Goes to the Ends of the Earth
    5/10/11
    A month in ancient, sub-Arctic peat bogs among the seals and grizzlies of Kamchatka's outer banks is not for the out-of-shape or faint-of-heart. Fortunately, Claude Larson is neither. An intrepid, Montreal-born and exceptionally fit middle-school science teacher from Oak Ridge, N.J., Larson has climbed mountains, jumped from planes and trawled the North Atlantic to survey the sea scallop population.
  • UB to Honor M&T Bank as Vital Partner at UB Partners Day
    5/10/11
    The University at Buffalo will honor M&T Bank as a vital partner at this year's UB Partners Day, a day of workshops and networking opportunities showcasing how UB has partnered with industry, government and nonprofits to spur economic growth in Buffalo Niagara.
  • Graduation walk is accident victim's latest triumph
    5/10/11
    On March 7, 2009, at 1:40 a.m., Amy Stewart's life changed forever. Stewart, then 22 and a student at the University at Buffalo, was walking down the Main Street sidewalk in Snyder that cold, rainy morning. When she and a good friend, Rachel Baird, tried to cross with the light at an intersection near Daemen College, a SUV veered around another car that had stopped to let them pass. It hit them both, then left the scene.
  • We Actually "Become" Happy Vampires or Contented Wizards When Reading a Book
    5/9/11
    Bad news for muggle parents! A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo finds that we more or less "become" vampires or wizards just by reading about them.
  • Winners Named in Verney Case Competition
    5/9/11
    A team of six MBA students from the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $3,000 prize as winners of the school's fifth annual Steven C. Verney MBA Case Competition.
  • Center for the Arts to Offer Technical Theater Program For High School, College Students and Adults
    5/9/11
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Technical Theater Program Aug. 15-17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Registration and fee are required.
  • UB's Addiction Medicine Fellowship One of First 10 Accredited by American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation
    5/9/11
    An addiction medicine fellowship developed by University at Buffalo's Department of Family Medicine is one of the nation's first 10 postgraduate addiction medicine residencies accredited by the American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation.
  • MBAs Offer Marketing Plans to Launch Skin Care Product
    5/9/11
    A team of five MBA students from the UB School of Management will share a $1,500 prize for their winning proposal for the U.S. launch of a revolutionary skin care lotion that is currently the No. 1 seller in Japan.
  • Louisa May Alcott -- Her Life Was No Children's Book
    5/6/11
    The University at Buffalo Libraries will present a series of five reading, viewing and discussion programs designed to re-introduce audiences to author Louisa May Alcott and give them new understanding of her place in American culture.