News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: Humanitarian and Best-selling Author Greg Mortenson to Speak at UB Today
    11/10/10
    Humanitarian, writer and former mountaineer Greg Mortenson will discuss the journey that led him to establish more than 100 schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan when he presents the next lecture in the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series at 8 p.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 10) in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus.
  • UB School of Nursing Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
    11/10/10
    In 1936, at a time when 125 out of every 1,000 Americans were high school graduates and 23 out of every 1,000 Americans were college graduates, the Division of Nursing within the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine was established. Four years later, it became independent, making it the university's 12th school.
  • Scholar of U.S. Politics Comments on New Post-Election Bipartisan Landscape
    11/10/10
    James E. Campbell is a widely published political scientist at the University at Buffalo who specializes in American electoral politics and forecasting. He is an excellent post-election source on issues related to the new working relationship ahead between the White House and Congressional leadership.
  • Big Hopes, Small Pharma: UB Spin-Off Wins FDA Orphan Designation for Drug made from Tarantula Venom
    11/9/10
    As Rose Pharmaceuticals marks its first anniversary this month, the stockbroker and University at Buffalo researchers who founded the company are celebrating a year of accomplishments.
  • Regional and International Awards Recognize UB's Effort to Create a Model 21st Century Campus
    11/9/10
    The University at Buffalo's comprehensive physical plan has received regional and international awards for excellence in three distinct areas: planning, landscape architecture and economic development.
  • Media Advisory: Humanitarian and Best-selling Author Greg Mortenson to Speak at UB Wednesday
    11/9/10
    Humanitarian, writer and former mountaineer Greg Mortenson will discuss the journey that led him to establish more than 100 schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan when he presents the next lecture in the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Alumni Arena on the UB North Campus.
  • To Promote HIV Research in Africa, NIH Awards UB Pharmacology Lab $2.3 Million
    11/8/10
    For more than 10 years, the University at Buffalo's HIV Clinical Pharmacology Research Program has helped fight the global AIDS epidemic by hosting visiting pharmaceutical scientists from countries like Zimbabwe and Nigeria in order to teach them how to conduct clinical trials and research on HIV/AIDS. Now, in recognition of their success and the need to expand these efforts, the National Institutes of Health has awarded a total of $2.3 million to the UB laboratory.
  • For Chinese Families, Alzheimer's Presents Unique Cultural Challenges
    11/8/10
    If dementia were a country, its economy would rank 18th between Turkey and Indonesia. The total estimated global cost of dementia in 2010 is slated to be $604 billion, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. The sharpest increase in the 35.6 million people across the world with dementia is now occurring in rapidly developing regions -- especially in China.
  • UB's Alexandridis to Receive 2010 Schoellkopf Award
    11/8/10
    Paschalis Alexandridis, PhD, a UB distinguished professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been chosen to receive the 2010 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award.
  • OncoMed Partners with UB to Meet Growing Demands in Oncology Pharmacy
    11/5/10
    When one of the nation's largest providers of oncology pharmacy services, OncoMed, decided to expand from a New York City suburb into a new facility on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus last month, an important factor was the potential to partner with the University at Buffalo.