News Releases

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

  • Professors Say Ecological Impact of Bridge Design Is Not Trivial
    5/5/08
    The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys local habitat, according to two University at Buffalo professors who study environmental impacts of structures.
  • Reception to Honor UB's Inventors, Entrepreneurs
    5/2/08
    The University at Buffalo and its Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) will recognize the research and commercialization achievements of faculty members at the annual Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception to be held from 4-6 p.m. May 5 in The Buffalo Club, 388 Delaware Ave.
  • UB's 162nd General Commencement Ceremony Set for May 11
    5/1/08
    Robert M. Bennett, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents and former president and CEO of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, will receive the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, the University at Buffalo's highest award, during the university's 162nd general commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. May 11 in Alumni Arena, North Campus.
  • Faculty Experts Featured In Free UBThisSummer Lecture Series
    5/1/08
    Members of the local community are invited to participate this summer in the University at Buffalo's 2008 UBThisSummer Lecture Series, "Our World Community: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future," in which UB's internationally renowned faculty will share their expertise on a variety of topics.
  • Lyme Disease Expert to Lecture at UB's Health Sciences Library
    4/30/08
    John J. Halperin, M.D., world-renowned authority on Lyme disease, will deliver the 17th annual C.K. Huang Lecture, "Lyme Disease: Facts and Myths," at 7 p.m. May 16 in the Austin Flint Reading Room of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library in Abbott Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Study Describes Mechanism Linking Alcohol with Risk of Breast Cancer
    4/30/08
    The known association of alcohol consumption with an increased risk of breast cancer has been linked by researchers at the University at Buffalo to a process that causes genes that promote normal cell growth to produce proteins that precipitate unregulated cell growth, an action known as hypermethylation.
  • Ulbrich Named Director of UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
    4/30/08
    The University at Buffalo School of Management has named Thomas R. Ulbrich director of its Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL).
  • Best-Selling Author, Buffalo Native, Is Spring Clinical Day Speaker
    4/29/08
    Buffalo native Michael F. Roizen, M.D., best-selling author, cohost of "Discovery Health," cofounder of RealAge, Inc., and chairman of its scientific advisory board, will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Spring Clinical Day sponsored by the University at Buffalo Medical Alumni Association on May 3.
  • Legal History Project Includes 3 UB Law School Contributors
    4/29/08
    Three University at Buffalo Law School professors -- one per volume -- are represented in a project its publisher calls "the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of the history of American law."
  • UB Planners Win International Award for East Side Development Work
    4/28/08
    The University at Buffalo East Side Neighborhood Transformation Partnership (ESNTP), a 2-year-old, university-assisted approach to the regeneration of Buffalo's Fruit Belt and Martin Luther King, Jr., Park communities, has received the 2008 Outstanding Program Award from the international Community Development Society.