News Releases

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

  • Weber Named Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
    5/18/10
    A. Scott Weber, PhD, has been named vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the University at Buffalo after an internal search, UB Provost Satish K. Tripathi announced today.
  • International Humanitarian Amma to Receive Honorary Degree at UB
    5/18/10
    Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, chancellor of India's Amrita University, will receive a State University of New York Doctor of Humane Letters degree at a conferral ceremony to be held at 2 p.m. May 25 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the University at Buffalo North Campus.
  • Two Trips Planned for Students, Community Members to Learn about UB's Tanzania Education Project
    5/17/10
    The University at Buffalo's Center for Educational Collaboration (CEC) will organize two trips to Tanzania in 2011 -- one for local community members and one for high school students -- in an effort to introduce individuals to the challenges, opportunities and assets related to education in Tanzania. The trips are part of the CEC's Buffalo Tanzania Education Project.
  • The Growing Market for 'War Porn' -- What's Going On?
    5/17/10
    "War porn" -- videos viewed for entertainment that feature gruesome footage of dead American soldiers or the killing of soldiers and civilians in the Middle East wars -- are growing in numbers online, in part, because of the absence of a strong mainstream media presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, says University at Buffalo popular culture expert David Schmid, PhD.
  • New System Boosts Yield of Isoflavonoids That Bind Estrogen Receptors
    5/14/10
    The promise of new pharmaceutical treatments from a class of powerful plant compounds called isoflavonoids has remained unfulfilled because of problems biosynthesizing sufficient quantities of the compound in pure forms or well-defined mixtures.
  • Media Advisory: Aspiring Engineers Race Fuel Cell Cars at UB
    5/14/10
    Sixty of Western New York's best and brightest high school students will compete in BEAM TREK, an all-day, brain-teasing race on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus on Saturday, May 15, 2010.
  • Media Advisory: UB Volunteers to Help Beautify Homes, Gardens in University District
    5/14/10
    University at Buffalo faculty, staff and students will gather from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, May 15) to help make a difference in the community surrounding the UB South Campus as part of the second annual UB Community Day.
  • Media Advisory: UB Volunteers to Help Beautify Homes, Gardens in University District (Updated Information)
    5/14/10
    University at Buffalo faculty, staff and students will gather from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, May 15) to help make a difference in the community surrounding the UB South Campus as part of the second annual UB Community Day.
  • UB's Granfield Named Fulbright Research Chair in International Humanitarian Law
    5/13/10
    Robert Granfield, PhD, of Youngstown, N.Y., professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in International Humanitarian Law at the Human Rights Research and Education Center (HRREC), University of Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Media Advisory: Obama Event to be Attended by UB Entrepreneurship Grads
    5/13/10
    Two graduates of programs in the UB School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) will be in attendance today during President Obama's visit to Buffalo.