News Releases

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

  • UB Graduate Planning Students Win Regional Award For "Kid Corridors"
    6/29/10
    "Kid Corridors, Taking Steps to School," a 2009 graduate studio project of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has received the 2010 Outstanding Student Project Award from the Western New York Section of the American Planning Association (WNY APA).
  • Minority High School Students Preview Accounting Careers
    6/28/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Management and the Foundation for Accounting Education of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) are collaborating to introduce minority high school students to career opportunities in the accounting profession during a five-day program.
  • Agent Orange Exposure Linked to Graves' Disease in Vietnam Veterans, UB Study Finds
    6/28/10
    Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • Wallabies and Bats Harbor "Fossil" Genes from the Most Deadly Family of Human Viruses
    6/28/10
    Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers and are the most lethal viruses known to humans.
  • High-Tech WNY Businesses Connect with Potential Investors at UB Center of Excellence Forum
    6/24/10
    The focus is on the growth of jobs, high-tech business and a knowledge-based economy when the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in the Bioinformatics and Life Sciences holds the 2010 Explore Buffalo Niagara Investor High-Tech Forum from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. today (June 24) in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.
  • UB's Earthquake Center Director Will Discuss Today's Earthquake
    6/23/10
    Andre Filiatrault, PhD, director of the University at Buffalo's MCEER (Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research), will be available to discuss the magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck on the Ontario-Quebec border this afternoon and was felt throughout the state.
  • UB Poetry Collection Wins ALA Award for Joyce Exhibition Catalogue
    6/22/10
    The Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo Libraries has received an honorable mention in the 2010 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Awards competition.
  • UB Student Organization Wins Superior Merit Award
    6/22/10
    The University at Buffalo School of Management's student chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) has earned the SHRM Superior Merit Award. The award recognizes chapters for outstanding activities and programs that support the professional development of members as well as the SHRM organization and the HR profession. This marks the chapter's 29th consecutive year of national recognition.
  • Study Finds that Caring for an Elderly, Sick Spouse Sometimes has Positive Elements
    6/22/10
    Although long-term care of sick or disabled loved ones is widely recognized as a threat to the caregiver's health and quality of life, a new study led by University at Buffalo psychologist Michael Poulin, PhD, finds that in some contexts, helping valued loved ones may promote the well being of helpers.
  • Media Advisory: Fight like a Warrior Entrepreneur, Survive the High-tech Business Jungle
    6/22/10
    It's a jungle out there in the world of technology start-ups. And businesspeople who want to make sure that their high-tech company is the one still standing will be attending the 2010 Explore Buffalo Niagara Investor and Entrepreneur High-Tech Forum on Thursday, June 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.