News Releases

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

  • UB Medical Alumni Association Presents Program on Heart Health
    2/1/11
    The University at Buffalo Medical Alumni Association will present a new program, "The Heart of Women's Health," to neighboring physicians, clinicians, patients and families at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Hwy., Amherst, on Saturday, Feb. 12.
  • President John B. Simpson Releases Message to Campus Community Regarding Gov. Cuomo's Executive Budget Proposal
    2/1/11
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson has released the following message to the campus community in response to this afternoon's state budget proposal announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
  • Media Advisory/Photo Op: "Give Kids a Smile Day" Set for Feb. 4
    2/1/11
    From the Teddy Bear clinic to Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown's proclamation, the University at Buffalo's 10th annual "Give Kids a Smile Day" will be in full swing from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in the Squire Hall lobby and dental clinics on the first and third floors of the UB School of Dental Medicine on the South Campus.
  • UB is closed Wednesday, February 2.
    2/1/11
    Because of the weather and driving conditions, the University at Buffalo has cancelled all day and evening classes and activities Wednesday, February 2, 2011. This includes all programs, classes and offices on UB's North, South and Downtown campuses.
  • National Award Lets More UB Students Engage with Buffalo Community
    1/31/11
    Forget town versus gown: students at the University at Buffalo are not only interested in the community outside of UB, but through the university's innovative living/learning program called the Undergraduate Academies, more of them are now connecting with it.
  • The Levon Helm Band to Perform March 6 in CFA
    1/31/11
    The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, will present The Levon Helm Band on Sunday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Three Faculty Members Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
    1/31/11
    Two University at Buffalo physicists and one engineer have received the National Science Foundation's (NSF) most prestigious award for junior investigators, bringing nearly $1.5 million in new research dollars to Buffalo.
  • If a Culture of Growth is Unsustainable, What Needs to Change?
    1/27/11
    The national mood rises and falls with the stock market. Business analysts lavish praise on companies that grow, and fret over the prospects of those that don't. The conventional view is that expansion is a sign of health. But is that assumption compatible with the finite resources of a finite planet?
  • UB Alumni Association to Present Seven Scholarships
    1/27/11
    A total of $6,500 in scholarship money will be awarded to seven University at Buffalo students at the UB Alumni Association dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 4, in the Center for the Arts atrium on the North Campus.
  • Law Professor Studies 'Sexing Up and Dumbing Down' of Work Force
    1/27/11
    Pick a decade, any decade. From secretaries in miniskirts in the "Mad Men"-style '60s and Southwest Airlines' "hostesses" in hot pants in the "liberated" '70s, to the present-day surge of provocatively dressed young female service workers -- the ubiquitous "Hooter Girl," for example -- University at Buffalo Law Professor Dianne Avery has a name for it all: "The Great American Makeover: "The Sexing Up and Dumbing Down of Women's Work."