News Releases

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

  • Regional Institute Releases Brief Exploring U.S.-Canada Trade, Receives National Grant to Research Border Performance
    10/30/08
    Canada is by far the United States' most important trading partner, with exports to our northern neighbor totaling more than those to Mexico, Japan and China combined. Yet federal policies to reinforce security without slowing trade have had mixed results, with some border regions easing bottlenecks more than others. These and other findings on the U.S.-Canada trade relationship are published in "Border Brief," a joint effort of the Regional Institute and the Border Policy Research Institute of Western Washington University.
  • New Study to Examine Relationship between Anger and Alcohol Abuse
    10/30/08
    Research suggests that alcoholics are more likely to experience emotions such as annoyances, frustrations and anger compared to non-alcoholics. A new study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will investigate these anger emotions and how they might be addressed in outpatient alcoholism treatment.
  • Region-wide Student Voting Campaign Reaches Hundreds of Thousands of Students
    10/29/08
    More than 100,000 students from over 100 local elementary, middle and high schools in 20 districts will participate in the largest and most comprehensive student voting program ever held in Western New York since the University at Buffalo began administering the local Kids Voting campaign.
  • Regional Institute Nationally Recognized for Its Work
    10/29/08
    For the second year in a row, the University at Buffalo's Regional Institute has received national recognition for its work from the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER), a professional association of research units at public and private universities.
  • Friendship, Not Diversity, More Critical to Team Performance, Research Shows
    10/29/08
    Contrary to popular belief, having a diverse group of people working together is not always the best way to get the job done. What's really important is the level of friendship among the team members -- as long as it's the right level, say researchers who study work teams.
  • UB's BEAM Wins U.S. Labor Department Award
    10/28/08
    The U.S. Department of Labor has selected the University at Buffalo's Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) as a winner of the 2008 Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) Award for promoting equal employment opportunity.
  • First-of-its-kind Podcast Series Gives Social Work Profession a New Voice
    10/28/08
    Provocative conversations with prominent social work professionals. Interviews with cutting-edge researchers. The latest on emerging trends in the social work field. And all available on demand, an iPod or MP3 download away. That's what's playing on "Living Proof," the University at Buffalo's School of Social Work's freshly launched podcast series.
  • Researchers Apply Systems Biology and Glycomics to Study Human Inflammatory Diseases
    10/28/08
    An innovative systems biology approach to understanding the carbohydrate structures in cells is leading to new ways to understand how inflammatory illnesses and cardiovascular disease develop in humans. The work was described in two recent publications by University at Buffalo chemical engineers.
  • Alumnus Creates New Theatre and Dance Scholarship at UB
    10/27/08
    Robert O. Swados,'38, of counsel with the law offices of Phillips Lytle LLP, has given $25,000 to the University at Buffalo to establish the Elizabeth Swados Award in Theatre and Dance at UB, in honor of his Obie Award-winning daughter. The Swados Award will provide merit-based scholarship support to an undergraduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Internet Expert to Speak at UB School of Management
    10/24/08
    Internet expert Hsinchun Chen, McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona, will speak at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 in 104 Alfiero Center on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.