News Releases

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

  • With a Star Trek Theme, Local Companies Partner with UB to Encourage Aspiring Engineers
    5/28/09
    Seventy of Western New York's best and brightest high school students flexed their mental muscles as they competed on May 23 in BEAM TREK, an all-day, brain-teasing race on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Senate Finance Committee Approves UB 2020 Bill
    5/27/09
    The Finance Committee of the New York State Senate today unanimously approved the UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act, moving the bill another step closer to passage. The bill next goes to a full Senate vote before moving on to the state Assembly for consideration.
  • Pressure to Look Attractive Linked to Fear of Rejection
    5/27/09
    People who feel pressure to look attractive are more fearful of being rejected because of their appearance than are their peers, according to a new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Kent.
  • Media Advisory: Kenyan Prime Minister to Speak at Niagara Falls, Gives UB Law School Commencement Speech
    5/22/09
    Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga will make his first trip to the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama tomorrow (Saturday, May 23) when he will make remarks and answer questions from the media from 9-11 a.m. at the Top of the Falls Restaurant on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and then give the University at Buffalo Law School commencement address 3 p.m.
  • Media Advisory: Aspiring Engineers to Discover UB's North Campus Is the "Final Frontier"
    5/22/09
    Seventy of Western New York's best and brightest high school students will flex their mental muscles as they compete in the Star Trek-themed BEAMTREK on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus tomorrow (Saturday, May 23, 2009) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • UB Announces Plans for New Educational Opportunity Center, Downtown Gateway
    5/22/09
    The University at Buffalo today announced plans to build in downtown Buffalo a new home for its Educational Opportunity Center, as part of an effort to provide expanded job-skills training and community programming to Buffalo residents.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Unveil Plans to Construct New Building Downtown
    5/21/09
    The University at Buffalo will announce plans to build a new home in downtown Buffalo for its Educational Opportunity Center at an unveiling to be held at 11 a.m. Friday (May 22) in the parking lot of the former M. Wile building at 77 Goodell St., Buffalo.
  • Do Elections Sway Political Opinion?
    5/21/09
    A new book on the role American elections play in shaping how its citizens arrive at political opinions -- written by nationally known University at Buffalo Law School election expert James A. Gardner -- looks at the expectations shared by many Americans that political campaigns should shape what people think about the major political issues in the election.
  • Senate Committee Approves UB 2020 Bill
    5/20/09
    The UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act moved closer to passage today when the bill was approved by the New York State Senate Higher Education Committee.
  • UB Scientists Develop Novel Method to Stimulate Growth of New Neurons in Adult Brain
    5/20/09
    University at Buffalo researchers have identified a new mechanism that plays a central role in adult brain stem cell development and prompts brain stem cells to differentiate into neurons.