News Releases

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

  • Health Tips for Olympics Travelers from UB's Richard Lee, M.D.
    7/23/08
    Attendees at the 2008 Olympics a half-a-world away, Aug. 8-24, will experience a cultural jolt and may have some concerns about their health. Richard Lee, M.D., University at Buffalo professor of medicine, is a specialist in geographic medicine and travels frequently to China. He returned from there recently and offers suggestions for international travelers headed for Beijing.
  • NPR's Oral History Project StoryCorps Comes to Buffalo
    7/22/08
    WBFO 88.7 FM, a major public service of the University at Buffalo, is bringing StoryCorps to the Western New York area. StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of Americans, arrived July 17 in Buffalo to collect the stories of Buffalo's residents as part of its cross-country tour.
  • Mutua to Address Pan African Conference on Gender-Based Violence
    7/21/08
    University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua will deliver a keynote speech at this week's Pan-African conference in Nairobi, Kenya, devoted to administering justice to those responsible for sexual and gender-biased violence in countries besieged by conflict and civil unrest.
  • Rebecca French Named to Head Baldy Center at UB Law School
    7/18/08
    University at Buffalo Law Professor Rebecca Redwood French, a Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar, has been named director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the UB Law School, Dean Makau W. Mutua announced today.
  • Southern Tier Residents Named to Dean's List at UB
    7/18/08
    Residents of the Southern Tier attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2008 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher
  • Quantum Rod System May Safely 'Sneak' Drugs, Diagnostics into Brain
    7/16/08
    A unique nanoparticle system developed by University at Buffalo scientists takes advantage of the versatility of bioconjugated quantum rods to ferry novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier, according to recent in vitro findings.
  • Central New York Residents Named to Dean's List at UB
    7/16/08
    Central New York residents attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2008 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.
  • UB Physician Named Distinguished Fellow of Vascular Surgery Society
    7/16/08
    Linda M. Harris, M.D., associate professor of surgery at the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery at the society's 62nd Vascular Annual Meeting held June 5-8 in San Diego, Calif.
  • UB's 18 Group Practices Moving Toward Single Group
    7/16/08
    The 18 separate specialty practices affiliated with the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are a step closer to becoming one 450-member clinical practice group of academic and community physicians that will be called UBMD.
  • At UB Workshop for Girls, Aspiring Engineers Find Each Other
    7/16/08
    With females accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of all U.S. engineers, high school can sometimes get lonely for young women who are interested in engineering and technology. But that won't be the case this week when 16 tech-minded young women entering grades 10-12 attend the University at Buffalo's 2008 Fisher-Price Cyber Engineering Workshop for Young Women.