News Releases

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

  • National Grid and UB Engineering Invest in the Future of Science and Engineering
    6/9/09
    National Grid is investing $250,000 in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to create and enhance programs that encourage Buffalo Public School students to pursue education and careers in science and engineering.
  • Media Advisory/News Conference: National Grid to Announce Gift to UB
    6/8/09
    National Grid CEO Steve Holliday will join University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and UB Engineering Dean Harvey Stenger at a news conference to announce a gift to the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • In NEJM Editorial, UB Cardiologist Recommends Optimal Medical Therapy, CABG, over PCI in Diabetics with Heart Disease
    6/7/09
    In an editorial in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), William E. Boden, M.D., professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the University at Buffalo, recommends that the results of the BARI-2D Trial published in that edition must be interpreted with "considerable caution."
  • Zielinski Elected President of UB Alumni Association
    6/5/09
    Larry Zielinski of Elma, who earned two degrees from the University at Buffalo, has been elected to serve a two-year term as president of the UB Alumni Association.
  • UB Classicist Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
    6/5/09
    Stephen L. Dyson, Ph.D., of Williamsville, Park Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, has been named a fellow of the convivial and scholarly Society of Antiquaries of London, the world's premiere learned society for heritage and a distinguished international association founded in 1707.
  • UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Graduates Largest Class
    6/5/09
    Forty-six Western New York business owners, operators and high-level managers have graduated from the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) Core program in the University at Buffalo School of Management, the largest graduating class in the program's 21-year history.
  • Media Advisory: WNY's Student Digital Video Academy Awards Festival Returns Tonight to Downtown
    6/4/09
    The area's best student digital videographers and their teachers will gather to view each other's work and celebrate an emerging educational art form at the City Voices, City Visions Awards ceremony beginning 5 p.m. today (June 4, 2009) in the Market Arcade Cinemas, 639 Main St.
  • Media Advisory: President Simpson and Senator Stachowski to Discuss State Senate's Passage of UB 2020 Bill
    6/4/09
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson and New York State Senator William T. Stachowski will hold a media briefing to discuss the New York State Senate's passage yesterday of the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act.
  • Buffalo to Host Major International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in July
    6/4/09
    Whether and how medical personnel and their digital systems can talk to one another in a meaningful way is a subject pertinent to the health of patients about whom they "converse." An internationally recognized ontologist points out, however, that these electronic systems frequently do not employ the same ontology -- or system of meaning -- which results in harmful, and even fatal, consequences for patients. This problem will be addressed at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), hosted by UB.
  • UB Law Receives $1 Million Gift from Cellino & Barnes
    6/4/09
    The University at Buffalo Law School has received an unrestricted gift of $1 million from two well-known alumni, Ross M. Cellino Jr. and Stephen E. Barnes, shareholders in the Buffalo-based personal injury law firm Cellino & Barnes, P. C. It is one of the largest cash gifts UB Law has received in its 122-year history.