News Releases

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

  • Top UB Students Nominated for Prestigious Scholarships
    3/30/10
    Five outstanding students from the University at Buffalo have been nominated for the prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, respectively.
  • Media Advisory: UB President John Simpson to Hold News Conference Today
    3/29/10
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. today, March 29.

    He will discuss threats to the UB 2020 plan in the wake of current and projected budget cuts, and their impact on UB and all of Western New York.

    Where: UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott St. in Buffalo.

    On site media contact: John DellaContrada, 361-3006

  • UB's Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series Returns with 'Food in the City'
    3/29/10
    The Food and Emerging Media Speakers Series -- designed to address issues of food and technology, and food and sustainability -- will continue its 2010 program with "Food in the City," a talk by Amanda McDonald Crowley, executive director of the non-profit Eyebeam art and technology center in New York City, at 7 p.m. April 1 in the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave.
  • 'Let's get it done'
    3/29/10
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson called a news conference today to implore the New York State legislature to pass the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA) proposed in the governor's budget. Below is the statement he gave to members of the media.
  • Media Advisory: UB Unveils Today its World-Class Cravens Collection
    3/28/10
    The University at Buffalo will unveil its recently donated multimillion-dollar collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects -- from 6,000 year-old anthropomorphic figurines from Europe and the Near East , to ceremonial African dolls from the mid-20th century -- at a premiere public opening from 1 to 5 p.m. today (Sunday, March 28), at the university's Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place in Buffalo.
  • Four to Receive SUNY Honorary Degrees at UB
    3/26/10
    A visionary who developed the world's most popular mapping Web site, an internationally beloved spiritual leader and humanitarian, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and a pioneering leader in drug discovery have been selected to receive honorary degrees from the State University of New York.
  • Media Advisory: UB President John Simpson to Hold News Conference on Monday
    3/26/10
    UB President John B. Simpson will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 29. He will discuss threats to the UB 2020 plan in the wake of current and projected budget cuts, and their impact on UB and all of Western New York.
  • Media Advisory: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Versus Western Science Will be Subject of UB Talk
    3/25/10
    "The Nature of Knowledge Interaction: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Western Environmental Science" will be the subject of a talk by Dan Longboat, assistant professor of native studies at Trent University, today (Thursday, March 25) from 7-9 p.m. in 120 Clemens Hall on the University at Buffalo North Campus.
  • WBFO 88.7FM completes most successful pledge drive in station history
    3/25/10
    WBFO 88.7 FM, the University at Buffalo's NPR member station, today completed the most successful on-air fundraising drive in the station's 51-year history. The drive began last week with the popular "Super Thursday" matching pledge day, and the final pledges came in during the last hour of WBFO's Morning Edition with Bert Gambini at 9:59 a.m. today.
  • Wall Street Journal: Hundreds of MS patients sign up for imagining programs to measure vein blockages
    3/25/10
    An article in the Wall Street Journal about a decision by Stanford University to shut down an experimental program that inserted metal stents into the internal jugular veins of multiple sclerosis patients in an effort to improve their symptoms reports that hundreds of patients have signed up for imaging programs to measure vein blockages at institutions that include UB.