News Releases

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

  • CFA to Present Blue Suede Shoes -- The Ultimate Elvis Bash
    12/19/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Blue Suede Shoes -- The Ultimate Elvis Bash at 8 p.m. on Jan. 18 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Inexpensive Glaucoma Assessment Tool Can Track MS Activity
    12/19/07
    New research by neurologists at the University at Buffalo has shown that a technique called optical coherence tomography, a simple and inexpensive measure employed currently to assess glaucoma, also could be used as a surrogate marker of disease status in multiple sclerosis (MS) and to assess the effectiveness of new and current MS treatments.
  • The Producers to be Performed at UB
    12/19/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Producers, a Mel Brooks musical, at 8 p.m. on Jan. 25 and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Oishei Grant Will Support UB Research on Staphylococcus
    12/19/07
    A $690,500 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will support the research of two professors in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences focusing on Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.
  • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Guards to Perform
    12/19/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Guards at 8 p.m. on Jan. 24 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Oishei Foundation Grant Supports New Arts in Healthcare Program
    12/14/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has been awarded a $287,182 grant by the John R. Oishei Foundation to establish a program that will bring the performing arts and artists into health-care settings to enhance the healing environment for patients and caregivers in Western New York.
  • UB Professor Receives 2007 Schoellkopf Award
    12/14/07
    David A. Kofke, Ph.D., University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the 2007 Jacob F. Schoellkopf Award.
  • Geographic Information Scientist Wins Soil Conservation Award
    12/14/07
    Chris S. Renschler, Ph.D., associate professor of geography at the University at Buffalo has been awarded the 2007 Young Scholar Award from the Soil and Water Management and Conservation Division of the Soil Science Society of America.
  • Crawling Worms May Illuminate Dopamine's Role in Human Aging Diseases
    12/12/07
    Research carried out with a paintbrush bristle, a metronome, smelly chemicals and thousands of microscopic worms called nematodes may reveal important information about human aging diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
  • Paying for Donor Organs Could Drastically Increase Availability
    12/11/07
    Economic analysis suggests that healthy young donors in economies like that in the U.S. that place them at low-risk for post-surgical death would sell a kidney or a portion of a liver at prices that would drastically increase the number of those organs available for transplant and increase transplant cost by only 12 percent.