News Releases

Family stories, political stories and those people use to create themselves and stories people use to explain themselves and explored in "The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories," authored by Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Samuel P. Capen Chair of American Culture at the University at Buffalo.

What keeps a newly licensed nurse on the job? Answers to that question are important to hospitals across the U.S., many of which are confronting serious nursing shortages. Based on results of a study to be published in the May 2007 issue of American Journal of Nursing, the top two priorities for hospitals to address the retention issue are improving nursing management and taking steps to reduce on-the-job stress.

Football Fever is upon the nation once again. The soaring of the pigskin signals the start of the "busy" season for cheerleaders, marching bands, and inevitably, sports medicine physicians.

Louis P. Ciminelli, chairman and CEO of LPCiminelli Inc., has been named the 2007 Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year by the University at Buffalo School of Management.

University at Buffalo cyclists turned a new corner today when the university kicked off "Bicycling at UB," an initiative designed to improve bike riding to, from and across its three campuses.

The public will again have an opportunity to enjoy classic American and international films when the 15th edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars, sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, begins on Aug. 28 with a screening of "City Lights," generally viewed as Charlie Chaplin's greatest film.

Praxair, Inc., a valued corporate partner of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for many years, has pledged a $250,000 gift to establish the Praxair Professor in Operations Research and a $25,000 gift to support the university's annual Business Partners Day.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation today announced a $250,000 gift to the University at Buffalo to create and provide initial support for a program to train entry- and mid-level workers for Western New York's emerging life-sciences industry.

Controversial and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore will open the 21st season of the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series for 2007-08. The series also will feature lectures by human rights activist and author Ishmael Beah; Steven D. Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago and co-author of the bestseller "Freakonomics;" Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council; magazine editor and author Tina Brown; and award-winning actor James Earl Jones.

WBFO 88.7 FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo, has received a grant from the New York State Music Fund in support of its new all-music HD radio station -- WBFO XPoNential -- and the WBFO XPoNential Buffalo Music Project. The project consists of two components that will provide WBFO's regional audience of more than 1.15 million people with expanded on-air access to the music of Western New York.