News Releases

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

  • UB Confucius Institute and Chinese Club of WNY to Celebrate Chinese New Year Feb. 5
    1/11/11
    The University at Buffalo Confucius Institute, in partnership with the Chinese Club of Western New York (CCWNY), will present a Chinese New Year celebration on Feb. 5 from 3-6 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
  • News Briefing Today: UB to name new building for local businessman and his wife
    1/11/11
    What: UB will hold a brief news event today to announce the naming of its engineering school's new building after a prominent local industrialist and his wife, in honor of a multimillion-dollar gift from the couple, the largest gift by individuals to the school.
  • One Year Later, Haiti's Engineers Are Acquiring Tools to Begin Rebuilding the Right Way
    1/10/11
    As Haitian citizens struggle to achieve some normalcy a year after the devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, its structural engineers and architects are demonstrating an unwavering resolve to rebuild the country the right way, despite the daily challenges.
  • Responsibility for the Arizona Rampage Goes Beyond the Shooter, Says Law Professor and Psychologist
    1/10/11
    Although this weekend's killings in Tucson, Ariz., appear to be the work of a mentally ill individual, University at Buffalo Law School Professor and psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing says it's important to keep in mind that the vast majority of the mentally ill are not violent or dangerous.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Commemorate 211th Birthday of Millard Fillmore
    1/7/11
    The University at Buffalo will uphold a longstanding winter tradition as it celebrates the anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, UB's first chancellor and the 13th president of the United States, at a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 7, at Fillmore's gravesite in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • Thomas E. Black '79 to receive UB Law School's highest honor
    1/7/11
    A University at Buffalo Law School alumnus with roots in Western New York and a deep involvement in the school's continuing improvement will be honored in January with the Law School's most prestigious award.
  • Kind of Blue -- Jimmy Cobb's So What Band Coming to CFA Feb. 12
    1/6/11
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Kind of Blue -- Jimmy Cobb's So What Band on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus. The concert is sponsored in part by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Commemorate 211th Birthday of Millard Fillmore
    1/6/11
    The University at Buffalo will uphold a longstanding winter tradition as it celebrates the anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, UB's first chancellor and the 13th president of the United States, at a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 7, at Fillmore's gravesite in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
  • 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).