News Releases

The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, will present Side Man from Wednesday, April 13, through Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. The performances will be held in the Drama Theatre, located in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher today announced that she has recommended Dr. Satish K. Tripathi as the next president of the University at Buffalo. Dr. Tripathi has served as UB's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs for the past six years. The Chancellor has asked the SUNY Board of Trustees to convene a special meeting in April in Buffalo, to formally consider his appointment as president. Effective immediately, Chancellor Zimpher also named Dr. Tripathi as UB's Officer-In-Charge, with all of the responsibilities and authority of a campus president.

The outcome of Haiti's March 20 presidential election will determine much of the country's political future, but this week, more than 250 Haitian architects and engineers will take the future of Haiti's reconstruction into their own hands when they attend the third UniQ-UB/MCEER Earthquake Engineering Seminar in Port-au-Prince.

A consortium of over 15 regional organizations has launched Bright Buffalo Niagara (Bright), a community-driven initiative that will host a series of events for investors, entrepreneurs and other professionals looking to build a high-tech economy across the Great Lakes region, including in Southern Ontario. Bright, led by the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, grew out of the Explore Buffalo Niagara Investor and Entrepreneur High-Tech Forum, an annual event that began in 2009.

Everyday, consumers and their healthcare providers make decisions about medications, diagnostic tests and other medical interventions based on risk statistics. According to the findings of an international study published today, certain methods of presenting these risk statistics are more persuasive than others.

Bracket fanatics beware: University at Buffalo researcher Alex Nikolaev, an expert in statistical analysis, has found the odds do not favor NCAA basketball teams seeded No. 1 in the big tournament -- at least not taken as a group.

In a timely twist of fate, given the recent earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, Philip Berke, noted specialist in planning for earthquakes and author of major books on urban planning and natural hazard mitigation, will present the University at Buffalo's 2011 Clarkson Chair in Planning Lecture March 23 at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on the UB South Campus.

Several University at Buffalo graduate and professional schools -- including UB engineering, medicine, law, business and nursing schools -- were recognized as among the best in the country by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of "America's Best Graduate Schools," released today.

The design of next-generation nuclear power plants and other critical energy facilities will undoubtedly be influenced by the Japanese tsunami and its devastating effects on Japan's nuclear reactors, says Michael C. Constantinou, PhD, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo.

We are all shocked and deeply saddened by the terrible destruction caused today by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to those affected by the disaster and especially to our students, faculty, and staff from Japan and their families, as well as our many Japanese alumni, colleagues, and friends.