News Releases

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

  • UB Gets Out the Vote: UB/BPS Partnership Registers High School Students for Fall Election
    9/11/08
    University at Buffalo student volunteers canvassed 12 Buffalo Public Schools today registering 18-year-old high school students to vote in the November election and acting as mentors in the power of the democratic process.
  • Ehrlich Named to Governor's Economic Advisory Council
    9/10/08
    Renowned University at Buffalo economist Isaac Ehrlich has been named to Governor David A. Paterson's newly convened Council of Economic Advisors.
  • Study Finds If Your Self Esteem Is Low, a Faux Relationship Can Give You a Boost
    9/10/08
    Shira Gabriel, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo, says "parasocial relationships" -- one-sided associations in which a party knows a great deal about someone who knows nothing about them -- can have self-enhancing benefits for people with low-self esteem, benefits they do not receive in real relationships.
  • UB Physicists Celebrate LHC Startup, Decades After Its Inception
    9/10/08
    Particle physicists don't ordinarily have a reputation as the most effusive bunch in the world but University at Buffalo physicists, along with their colleagues all over the planet, are positively exuberant about the Sept. 10 debut of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, the most powerful particle physics accelerator ever built.
  • Thomas to Direct HSBC Center in UB School of Management
    9/9/08
    John M. Thomas, professor of operations management and strategy in the University at Buffalo School of Management, has been named director of the school's HSBC Center for Global Business Leadership (HSBC Center).
  • UB Invests $5.3 Million to Improve Campus Safety
    9/9/08
    The University at Buffalo is working closely with students, neighborhood leaders and the City of Buffalo to provide a safe and secure environment on its South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider, No Worries
    9/9/08
    No, the startup of the Large Hadron Collider this week won't create a massive black hole that will wipe out life on Earth as we know it, according to University at Buffalo assistant professor of physics Dejan Stojkovic.
  • How Women Urban Builders Collaborated to Remake their Environment
    9/5/08
    "The modern city and the modern woman invented each other," says architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, a fact she says is clearly demonstrated in Berlin, a city that women began to claim as their own in bold and dramatic ways at the turn of the 20th century.
  • Wesley Clark to Replace John Edwards in Debate with Rove
    9/5/08
    General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Ret.), will join Karl Rove for this month's UB Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) election debate. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 26 in Alumni Arena on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Golisano Named 'Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year'
    9/5/08
    B. Thomas Golisano, chairman of the board and founder of Paychex Inc. and owner of the Buffalo Sabres, has been named the 2008 Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.