News Releases

The University at Buffalo Police Department has begun its annual Seat Belt Awareness campaign to promote safety this holiday season.

Marie Battaglia has been named "Protege of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the evolving role of pro bono legal services in the United States demonstrates that available private and public resources do not meet the legal needs of Americans of limited means.

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and much more costly hands-on evidence-gathering.

For the second year in a row, members of the university community will have the opportunity to get to know the police force that protects and serves it on a daily basis as part of the University at Buffalo Citizens Police Academy.

Alan J. Rabideau, PhD, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named to a National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council panel that will study hazardous waste sites with "recalcitrant" contamination that hinders their closure.

A test of UB's emergency messaging system will be conducted on Friday, Dec. 11. The system is designed to assist in communicating with members of the university during emergencies or major disruptions to campus operations.

With most students headed off campus after final exams, the intersession between the fall and spring semesters provides the perfect opportunity to significantly reduce energy consumption, according to faculty and staff charged with creating and implementing the University at Buffalo's sustainability policies.

As a research-intensive institution, the University at Buffalo is committed to providing rewarding opportunities for research discovery, even to undergraduate students, a group not traditionally provided many opportunities to work with faculty engaged in research.

Raechele Pope of Williamsville, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy in the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education, has been recognized as a 2010 Diamond Honoree by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Foundation for her contributions to higher education.