News Releases

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

  • UB Named 'Green Power' Conference Champion for Reducing Its Environmental Footprint
    6/3/10
    The University at Buffalo has been named the 2009-2010 Individual Conference Champion by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for using more green power than any other school in the Mid-American Conference.
  • UB Partners Day to Honor Hodgson Russ and Professors Hezel and Schentag
    6/3/10
    Hodgson Russ LLP and University at Buffalo professors George M. Hezel and Jerome J. Schentag will be honored by UB for their leadership in the community and longstanding support of the university at the UB Partner's Day luncheon on June 9 in the Adam's Mark Hotel in Buffalo.
  • National Organization Recognizes UB Professor's Efforts To Boost Minority Participation in Chemical Sciences
    6/2/10
    The American Chemical Society has selected Luis A. Colon, PhD, professor and chair of the University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry, as recipient of the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Promotion of Diversity.
  • 'City Voices, City Visions' -- UB's Oscars of Digital Student Videos -- Makes a Return Engagement
    6/2/10
    The University at Buffalo's "City Voices, City Visions" student film festival will present its "Academy Awards" to the winning student digital cinematographers at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3, at its usual venue, the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St., in downtown Buffalo.
  • University Community Farmers Market to Open June 5 on UB South Campus
    6/2/10
    The fourth season of the University Community Farmers Market will open June 5 on the University at Buffalo South Campus featuring a variety of new and old vendors and selling fresh food and local products.
  • Errol E. Meidinger Appointed Director of Baldy Center
    5/27/10
    Errol E. Meidinger, professor and vice dean for research and faculty development in the University at Buffalo Law School, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
  • UB Medical Students Win Two of 11 Scholarships Awarded by Prestigious Sarnoff Foundation
    5/27/10
    Two University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences students have won scholarships from the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation to conduct intensive work in a biomedical research laboratory in the United States.
  • Haiti Takes Major Step toward Earthquake Resilience, with Help from UB's MCEER
    5/27/10
    Last weekend at a university campus in Port-au-Prince, where not a single building withstood the January earthquake, more than 200 Haitian engineers, architects and other professionals gathered in tents in temperatures hovering near 100 degrees F to begin learning the principles of earthquake-resistant design.
  • UBThisSummer Lecture Series to Kick Off with Program on Haiti Earthquake
    5/27/10
    The University at Buffalo's UBThisSummer Lecture Series will mark its fifth anniversary with a lineup that opens with Andre Filiatrault, who assessed building safety in Haiti this January following a devastating earthquake there, and concludes with Esther Takeuchi, a battery expert who traveled to Washington, D.C., last fall to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama.
  • $3.5 Million Awarded to UB Biochemist to Facilitate Regional Stem Cell Research
    5/27/10
    A University at Buffalo biochemist in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and his colleagues have received $3.5 million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board to establish a Western New York Stem Cell Culture and Analysis Center.