News Releases

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

  • At UB, A Collaborative Painting Conveys Complex Environmental Science
    8/11/09
    At the University at Buffalo, students are being trained in the interdisciplinary field of ecosystem restoration, in which they learn how to restore ecosystems damaged by natural or manmade influences. But communicating this new, multidisciplinary science to the outside world -- or even to one another -- has been a challenge.
  • Forbes again ranks UB School of Management as a "Best Business School"
    8/10/09
    Forbes magazine has once again ranked the UB School of Management as one of the best business schools in the world based on the "return on investment" it provides MBA graduates.
  • Librarian Honored By American Library Association
    8/7/09
    Christopher V. Hollister, of Buffalo, information literacy librarian in the University at Buffalo Arts and Sciences Library, and former UB librarian Stewart Brower were honored at the annual conference of the American Library Association in Chicago in July for their creation and editorship of the journal Communications in Information Literacy, the first born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted entirely to information literacy.
  • Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
    8/7/09
    Chemists at the University at Buffalo have used rational drug design to synthesize small, cell-permeable molecules that are effective in vitro against two common types of myotonic muscular dystrophy, a result that has implications for potentially curing muscular dystrophy, as well as other diseases.
  • Media Advisory: UB Program for High School Students Is Part Engineering Workshop, Part Santa's Workshop
    8/6/09
    They may look like they''re just playing with TRIO's "easy-click bricks and sticks" but at the University at Buffalo 13 young women from area high schools will actually be brainstorming what could be the toy industry's next blockbuster!
  • Media Advisory: UB on the Green to feature Taylor Made Jazz, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago
    8/4/09
    UB on the Green, the University at Buffalo's free community performance series, will conclude its 2009 season with performances by Taylor Made Jazz and Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago from 6-8 p.m. today (Tuesday, August 4, 2009) in front of Hayes Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • SBA Names UB Business Program Grad Minority Small Business Person of the Year
    8/4/09
    Buffalo business owner Lenny L. Johnson, who with a partner and $7,500 built a two-man residential plumbing business into a multimillion-dollar construction management enterprise, has been named Region II Minority Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
  • James A. Wooten named UB Law Library Director
    8/3/09
    James A. Wooten, professor of law in the University at Buffalo, has been appointed director of the Charles B. Sears Law Library and vice dean for legal information services in the UB Law School effective Aug. 14.
  • Friendship Influences Eating Behavior, Particularly When Friends are Overweight
    8/3/09
    A new study of childhood obesity in the United States has found that some social factors, such as the presence of friends, may put overweight youths at greater risk of overeating.
  • Kaleida Health, UB Break Ground on Vascular Treatment, Research and Technology Building
    8/3/09
    The effort to transform Buffalo into a world-class health care destination and expand the University at Buffalo's campus in downtown Buffalo took a major step forward today as Kaleida Health and UB broke ground for a new 10-story global vascular institute and research building.