News Releases

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

  • Freshman Architects Erect Community of Micro-Dwellings at Griffis Sculpture Park
    4/21/11
    Freshman architecture students from the University at Buffalo have designed and are building a 96-foot-long string of wooden micro-dwellings that will open to the public later this month at Griffis Sculpture Park. Assembly of "The Living Wall" will conclude the week of April 25. The UB School of Architecture and Planning is inviting the public as well as students, professors and critics to attend an opening reception and dedication ceremony for "The Living Wall" at 1 p.m. on April 29 at the main entrance of the Griffis Sculpture Park, 6902 Mill Valley Road, East Otto in Cattaraugus County.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Celebrate Talent, Accomplishments of Its Faculty and Staff
    4/21/11
    The University at Buffalo will recognize the work and achievements of its faculty and staff as part of the Celebration of Faculty and Staff Excellence to be held at 3:30 p.m. today (Thursday, April 21) in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.
  • Avoiding Outer-Space Collisions Is Focus of Air Force-Funded Research by UB's Puneet Singla
    4/21/11
    Puneet Singla, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo, was recently chosen to receive a prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research award to develop more robust mathematical models to assess space situational awareness. The highly competitive Young Investigators Research Program award will fund Singla's research into "Information Collection and Fusion for Space Situational Awareness."
  • UB School of Management MBAs Win Prestigious Whitman Competition
    4/21/11
    A team of four MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management took the top prize of $2,000 in the annual Whitman Case Competition at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management.
  • Primordial Weirdness: Did the Early Universe Have One Dimension?
    4/20/11
    That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.
  • Air Pollution Exposure at Certain Life Stages Affects Chances of Developing Premenopausal Breast Cancer
    4/20/11
    Exposure to air pollution early in life and when a woman gives birth to her first child may alter her DNA and may be associated with premenopausal breast cancer later in life, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
  • More Than $10,000 at Stake in UB Competition
    4/20/11
    The team that presents the best plan for launch of a viable new business will receive $10,000 in start-up funding in the final round of the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).
  • UB Summer Programs Answer the 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' Question in Style
    4/19/11
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo's Center for Educational Collaboration (CEC) this summer again will embrace its inner cool scientist with a full program of science and math programs -- as well as the popular "Wiggle Your Power" civic engagement camp.
  • Media Advisory: UB Celebrates Earth Week 2011
    4/19/11
    From Earth Pong to Mt. Trashmore to the annual appearance of the University at Buffalo's solar-powered smoothie cart, the UB community will be busy celebrating Earth Week in a variety of ways, leading up to Earth Day on Friday, April 22.
  • Non-partisan Education Evaluations Are Anything But, UB Education Professor Says
    4/19/11
    An increasingly influential national organization evaluating and grading teacher education programs misleads its audience by claiming to be "non-partisan" when, in reality, the group is part of a growing movement of "corporate education" reformers pushing an agenda of standardization and privatization at the expense of meaningful teaching and learning, according to a professor in the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education.