News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Carol June Bradley, 74, Distinguished Author, Teacher, Music Librarian
    8/3/09
    Carol June Bradley, 74, of Kenmore, N.Y., a national award-winning librarian emerita at the University at Buffalo, noted author and a distinguished member of her profession who educated a generation of music librarians, died July 27, 2009, in Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Media Advisory: UB and Kaleida Health to Break Ground Monday for Joint Clinical Care and Research Facility
    8/3/09
    The University at Buffalo and Kaleida Health will kick off construction of a new joint clinical care and research facility at a groundbreaking ceremony at 11 a.m. today (Aug. 3, 2009) on the building site at Goodrich and Ellicott streets in Buffalo.
  • Saudi University Officials Visit UB to Discuss Possible Collaborative Research
    8/3/09
    University at Buffalo officials spent two days last week meeting with representatives of King Saud University in Saudi Arabia to discuss potential research collaborations engendered by groundbreaking Saudi research conducted in collaboration with UB researchers.