News Releases

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

  • Ah, Mao! Assessing China's Querulous Recent History
    11/11/08
    Historical assessment of the Mao Zedong years has been a highly contentious matter in China, calling into question assumptions about Cold War politics, socialist mass culture, gender roles and historical inquiry. A noted specialist in the social, cultural and intellectual history of 20th-century China will tackle these issues in a lecture on Nov. 21 at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB to Celebrate International Education Week
    11/7/08
    The University at Buffalo will celebrate International Education Week (IEW) Nov. 17-21 with a variety of events, including a keynote speech by award-winning author Dahr Jamail about his experiences as an unembedded journalist in Iraq.
  • Life, Liberty and Libraries in Iraq the Focus of UB Lecture
    11/7/08
    An international expert on the history of libraries as cultural heritage institutions and the recent violence to that tradition in Iraq will deliver the University at Buffalo's Bobinski Lecture Nov. 10 in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
  • Invitrogen Foundation Supports UB's Life Sciences Initiatives in Buffalo
    11/7/08
    The Invitrogen Foundation headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., has given the University at Buffalo $50,000 to support marketing and outreach efforts for UB's iSci: Career Pathways in the Life Sciences program.
  • Rape and Kidnapping Claim Was False, Investigators Conclude
    11/6/08
    A student who claimed to have been kidnapped and raped on UB's North Campus last year has told University Police that the incident never happened.
  • ADHD Expert Receives UB's First Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence
    11/6/08
    William E. Pelham Jr., University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor in the departments of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and one of the leading experts in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), has been named the inaugural recipient of the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence.
  • U.S. Legal System Perpetuates Employment Discrimination, Noted Sociologists Find
    11/4/08
    University at Buffalo sociologist Ellen Berrey, Ph.D., and two scholars from Northwestern University, say the excessive emphasis in U.S. law on overt acts of employment discrimination ignores the unintentional bias that permeates workplaces and the organizational practices responsible for much discrimination.
  • Maternal Obesity Can Program Fetal Brain to Induce Adult-onset Obesity
    11/4/08
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that fetuses of obese mother rats were programmed in utero to develop obesity in adulthood.
  • UB Readies for Election and Football History
    11/3/08
    The University at Buffalo football program is preparing for a primetime and Election Night football game of historic proportions when the Bulls host Miami University Nov. 4 in UB Stadium. Kickoff will be at 7:30 p.m.
  • Pakistani Professors Train in Earthquake Engineering Techniques
    10/31/08
    News of any earthquake spreads quickly among the dozens of earthquake engineering researchers and students at the University at Buffalo. But Wednesday's magnitude 6.4 quake in southwest Pakistan held particular interest for two researchers visiting UB and MCEER this semester from Pakistan's NWFP University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawar.