News Releases

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

  • UB Receives $8.2 Million NIH Award to Lead Northeast Region of Women's Health Initiative
    10/8/10
    The University at Buffalo has received an $8.2 million award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to administer a new round of studies that extend the Women's Health Initiative research for another five years.
  • Media Advisory: "UB Getting Dirty" to Help Beautify South Campus Neighborhoods
    10/8/10
    The University at Buffalo Student Association, in partnership with the UB Office of Community Relations, will hold its annual community service event, UB Getting Dirty, on Sunday, Oct. 10, from 1-4 p.m. in the neighborhoods around the UB South Campus.
  • UB Grad Lands White House Internship
    10/8/10
    The White House announced this week that Nadiaa Ansari, who graduated from the University at Buffalo in June with dual majors in Asian studies and political science, has been selected to participate this fall in the 2010 White House Internship Program.
  • Media Briefing: UB Receives $8.2 Million to Extend Historic 'Women's Health Initiative'
    10/8/10
    Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine and co-leader of UB's original $13 million Women's Health Initiative Vanguard Center, will provide details of a new $8.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health to the University at Buffalo to extend the WHI initiative from 2010 to 2015.
  • President-Elect of American Public Health Association to Present UB's 22nd Perry Lecture
    10/8/10
    Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, chief medical officer of Illinois' Cook County Department of Public Health and president-elect of the American Public Health Association, will present the 22nd J. Warren Perry Lecture on Friday, Oct. 15, at 1:30 p.m. in 105 Harriman Hall on the University at Buffalo South Campus.
  • Climate Change Remains a Real Threat to Corals
    10/7/10
    Hopes that coral reefs might be able to survive, and recover from, bleaching caused by climate change may have grown dimmer for certain coral species, according to new research by University at Buffalo marine biologists published online this week in PLoS One.
  • Media Briefing: UB Receives Major Funding to Extend Historic 'Women's Health Initiative'
    10/7/10
    Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor of social and preventive medicine and co-leader of UB's original $13 million Women's Health Initiative Vanguard Center, will provide details of a new multimillion award from the National Institutes of Health to the University at Buffalo to extend the WHI initiative from 2010 to 2015.
  • Study to Examine Drinking and Sexual Aggression
    10/6/10
    Most of what we know about alcohol and sexual aggression is based on information obtained from female victims. A new research study announced today at the University at Buffalo will focus on drinking and sexually aggressive behavior from the male perspective.
  • Demolition Artist's 'Undone-Redone City' on Exhibit in Buffalo and New York City
    10/6/10
    Soon after architect Dennis Maher arrived in Buffalo in 2002, he took jobs tearing down abandoned homes and other vacant structures to supplement his income as a University at Buffalo adjunct instructor. His experience on demolition crews ended up fueling his art practice: Fascinated by the politics of demolition and shocked by the quantity of waste that resulted from deconstruction, Maher began harvesting scraps from decaying homes and fusing the debris into large-scale sculptures.
  • International Law Scholar to Deliver 2010 Mitchell Lecture
    10/5/10
    Henry J. Richardson III, a leading international law scholar with a special interest in Africa, will deliver the 2010 Mitchell Lecture at University at Buffalo Law School. The Oct. 27 appearance by Richardson, professor of law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, continues a distinguished tradition that began with the lecture series' founding in 1950.