News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Intellectual Discovery and Fun Come Together in UBThisSummer
    5/6/11
    Write your novel. Study marine biology in the Bahamas. Watch your children become the people they were meant to be. Search and zero in on a distant star. If life at UB is rewarding during the academic year, the opportunities for fun and intellectual excitement through the university's expanded schedule of summer programs can entice and inspire children, seniors and everyone in between.
  • Media Advisory: UB Law Professor and Student to Submit a Legislative Redistricting Plan Today on Courthouse Steps
    5/6/11
    University at Buffalo Law School Professor Michael Halberstam and law student Patrick Fitzgerald will submit their legislative redistricting plan for Erie County at 10 a.m. today (May 6, 2011) at a press conference on the front steps of the Old Erie County Courthouse, 92 Franklin St., in downtown Buffalo.
  • UB Receives $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Ground-Breaking Research in Global Health and Development
    5/6/11
    The University at Buffalo announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Glenna Bett, PhD, assistant professor and vice chair for research in the UB Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project to develop a device to treat postpartum hemorrhage.
  • In an Extreme Year, Extreme Events Researchers Gather at Quake Summit 2011 to Discuss Resilience Against Earthquakes, Multiple Hazards
    5/5/11
    The 2011 earthquakes that struck New Zealand and Japan, research on improving nuclear power plant design, earthquake engineering research in the U.S. in the next quarter century and improving resilience of buildings, bridges and critical infrastructure are all on the agenda at Quake Summit 2011, Earthquake & Multi-Hazards Resilience: Progress and Challenges, in Buffalo, NY, June 9-11.
  • Sustainable Transportation is Focus of IBM Grant Won by UB Professor
    5/5/11
    Each year, American drivers waste an estimated 3.7 billion hours, or the equivalent of five days, sitting in traffic, burning 2.3 billion gallons of fuel. Students at the University at Buffalo will soon be learning how to reduce that waste, creating less congestion and cleaner air, thanks to an IBM grant to Adel Sadek, PhD, UB associate professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering.
  • UB to Hold 165th Commencement on May 15
    5/5/11
    More than 5,500 students are candidates to receive degrees during the University at Buffalo's 165th general commencement and 14 other commencement ceremonies to be held through May 21.
  • Good News from Albany: New Program Provides Initial Funding for First Phase of UB 2020 Plan
    5/4/11
    Following Monday's announcement by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chancellor Nancy Zimpher of the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program, University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi has announced that UB will submit a plan to build a new home for the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences downtown on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present 2011 UB Summer Dance Program
    5/4/11
    The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present the UB Summer Dance Program this summer. Classes will be held in the Dance Studio (Room B82) in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. All members of the dance community are welcome.
  • ASCE Awards UB's Bruneau with the 2011 George Winter Award
    5/4/11
    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected Michel Bruneau, PhD, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo and former director and deputy director of UB's MCEER, as the recipient of the 2011 George Winter Award.