News Releases

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

  • Media Advisory: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to speak at UB
    9/16/09
    The University at Buffalo will kick off its 2009-10 Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to be held at 8 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009) in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Bitemark Evidence and Analysis Should Be Approached with Caution, According to UB Study
    9/16/09
    Against the backdrop of last week's Congressional hearing into the future of forensic science, researchers from the University at Buffalo's Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research in the School of Dental Medicine, have published a landmark paper on the controversial topic of bitemark analysis.
  • How Can A City Be Sentient? Let Us Count The Ways....
    9/16/09
    "Toward the Sentient City" is an exhibition two years in the making that originated among University at Buffalo architects and will give you a whiff of the future, with its smart dust, text messages to fish and devices that provide electricity then sort of "eat" the carbon dioxide it produces.
  • UB Receives Grant to Expand South Asian Studies Program
    9/15/09
    The Asian Studies Program at the University at Buffalo has received a two-year, $172,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand the university's undergraduate course offerings, academic exchanges and events related to South Asia.
  • UB Submits Plan to Reach Carbon Neutrality
    9/15/09
    After two years of planning, drafts, public presentations and feedback, the University at Buffalo today submitted a plan for achieving climate neutrality to the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
  • Media Advisory: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to speak at UB
    9/15/09
    The University at Buffalo will kick off its 2009-10 Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009) in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Masters in Leadership Certificate Program for Sales Managers
    9/14/09
    An introduction to sales management and leadership will be offered this fall by the University at Buffalo's Division of Continuing and Professional Studies in partnership with the Buffalo Niagara Sales & Marketing Executives.
  • Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Animals
    9/14/09
    J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
  • Visionary Architect Hannes Stiefel Is UB's 2009-10 McHale Fellow in Architecture
    9/14/09
    Architect, designer and planner Hannes Stiefel of the Zurich-Vienna architectural practice Stiefel Kramer, will be the 2009-10 Magda Cordell McHale and John McHale Fellow in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Tony Award-Winning Musical Avenue Q to be Performed Oct. 13-14
    9/14/09
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the national tour of Avenue Q Oct. 13-14 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.