News Releases

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

  • Noted Michigan State University Dermatologist to Become UB Dermatology Chair
    1/6/11
    Animesh Amart Sinha, MD, PhD, chief of the N.V. Perricone Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Sciences at Michigan State University and director of its Center for Investigative Dermatology, has been named chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
  • UB's TCIE Kicks Off Spring 2011 Business Improvement Course Lineup
    1/6/11
    Western New York business professionals striving to save money and boost efficiency in their organizations can register now for a variety of business improvement workshops and training courses being offered this spring by the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE).
  • Distinguished Nursing Alumna to Present Margaret A. Nelson Inaugural Lecture
    1/5/11
    Anne Skelly, PhD, RN, ANP-C, associate professor of nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a University at Buffalo School of Nursing distinguished alumna, will present the inaugural Margaret A. Nelson Lecture at 2 p.m. on March 4 in 114 Wende Hall on UB's South Campus.
  • Pest Architecture: MacDowell Colony Fellowship to Support Architect's Work on Pest Wall
    1/4/11
    University at Buffalo architecture faculty member Joyce Hwang will spend five weeks this spring at the nation's oldest artists' colony, where she will conclude a semester-long sabbatical devoted to a project she hopes to build in Buffalo: Pest Wall.
  • Simpson to Speak at Ceremony Commemorating 211th Birthday of Millard Fillmore
    1/4/11
    The 211th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, the University at Buffalo's first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, will be celebrated at a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 7 at Fillmore's gravesite in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • Kiplinger's Ranks UB as One of the "Best Values" in Public Higher Education
    1/4/11
    The University at Buffalo provides a quality education at an affordable price, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which has placed UB on the magazine's 2011 list of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges.
  • UB Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage Opens 2011 David Blitzer Lecture Series
    1/4/11
    The 2011 David Blitzer Lecture Series presented by the University at Buffalo Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage in Jewish Studies will open on Jan. 31 and continue through April 4 with free public lectures on the UB North Campus and in Amherst's Temple Beth Tzedek by five leading Jewish scholars, philosophers and historians.
  • Hot Tuna Blues, with Special Guests Charlie Musselwhite and Jim Lauderdale, to Perform Feb. 2
    1/3/11
    The Center for the Arts at University at Buffalo will welcome Hot Tuna Blues, featuring Hot Tuna with Special Guests Charlie Musselwhite and Jim Lauderdale, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The concert is sponsored in part by Monaco's Violin Shop & Music Center.
  • UB Project Returns to Tanzania
    12/30/10
    The driving forces of the university's Buffalo Tanzanian Education Project are on the move again as they return to a remote African village this weekend for a 12-day trip where they will continue their partnership with the Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa working to give teenage girls alternatives from traditional cultural practices of early marriage.
  • When Lung Cancer Patients Can't Sleep They May Self-Medicate with Tobacco, Study Finds
    12/30/10
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What many of us take for granted -- a good night's sleep -- may be unattainable for those with lung cancer. Lung cancer patients comprise a subgroup of cancer patients who are most vulnerable to sleep disturbances.