News Releases

The bridge collapse in Minneapolis this week raises fears about personal safety in most of us, especially those who have suffered past traumas or from personal safety phobias, according to a University at Buffalo expert on post-traumatic stress disorder.

Alexander N. Cartwright, professor of electrical engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been appointed UB's vice provost for strategic initiatives, a new position in which he will serve as the point person in the Provost's Office for the UB 2020 strategic strengths initiatives.

The University at Buffalo HIV Scholars Program has its first graduate: Wen-Liang Lin, a clinical pharmacist at the National Cheng-Kung University Hospital in Taiwan, has completed an extensive period of clinical training in UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and will complete the certificate segment of the program in Taiwan.

WBFO-FM 88.7, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, won three first place awards for its 2006 news coverage from Public Radio News Directors Inc. at its awards banquet held July 21 in New Orleans.

Instead of visiting an amusement park this summer and riding on rollercoasters, 16 high school girls attending a University at Buffalo engineering workshop will develop their own virtual rollercoasters -- and they will get to "ride" them, too.

Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D., renowned inventor of the tiny batteries that have helped make implantable cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical devices a life-saving reality for millions of patients, is joining the faculty in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Incoming students at the University at Buffalo this summer are getting a lesson in UB pride and spirit -- as well as an introduction to the university's alumni association -- before they even step into a classroom.

Drinking malt liquor -- the cheap, high-alcohol beverage often marketed to teens -- may put young adults at increased risk for alcohol problems and use of illicit drugs, particularly marijuana, according to a new study of malt liquor drinkers and marijuana use by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).

City Voices City Visions is a partnership between UB and the Buffalo Public Schools that provides teachers in grades 6-12 with innovative approaches to using digital video arts as a literacy tool in their classrooms. The goal is to raise the academic achievement -- and thus increase the post-graduate opportunities -- of these students, who attend classes in a variety of urban neighborhoods.

Residents of the Southern Tier attending the University at Buffalo have been named to the Dean's List for the spring 2007 semester for achieving a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.