News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • 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.