News Releases

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

  • Spitzer Appoints Simpson to Higher Education Commission
    5/31/07
    University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson has been named to a newly created state Higher Education Commission charged with identifying ways to improve the quality of higher education in New York.
  • Amherst Residents Discuss UB's Plans for Growth
    5/31/07
    About 150 Amherst residents attended a public forum held on Tuesday by the University at Buffalo and the Amherst Chamber of Commerce where UB officials discussed the university's plans to grow by 40 percent and that growth's impact on their community.
  • 14 UB Students Receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
    5/30/07
    Fourteen students at the University at Buffalo have received 2007 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence from SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan.
  • More UB Students Winning Nationally Competitive Scholarships, Fellowships
    5/30/07
    A growing number of University at Buffalo graduate and undergraduate students, or recent graduates, are being awarded scholarships and fellowships ranging from the Udall and Barry M. Goldwater scholarships to Fulbright fellowships and the Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
  • McMurray Named STOR Associate Intellectual Property Manager
    5/29/07
    Thad G. McMurray has been named associate intellectual property manager for the Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach at the University at Buffalo.
  • Multi-Hazard Engineering Symposium to be Held in New York City
    5/29/07
    A symposium on "Emerging Developments in Multi-Hazard Engineering" organized jointly by MCEER, headquartered at the University at Buffalo, and the Architectural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) will be held Sept. 18 at the McGraw-Hill Conference Center in New York City.
  • "Creative Thinking" Earns ALS Biomarker Competition Prize
    5/29/07
    A University at Buffalo physician has won one of five monetary awards in an international competition for the best ideas for discovering biomarkers for Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • Buffalo News Editorial Looks at SUNY's Lawsuit Against Town of Amherst
    5/25/07
    The State University of New York's lawsuit against the Town of Amherst is the subject of an editorial in The Buffalo News, and calls the move "a step toward improving" town-gown relations.
  • 'The Sopranos' Ranks among Best in TV History, Says Pop-Culture Expert
    5/23/07
    The final fate of America's favorite mob boss remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: When the last episode of "The Sopranos" airs June 10, the show will go down in American television history as one of the all-time greats, according to University at Buffalo pop-culture expert Elayne Rapping.
  • Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk of Heart Attack
    5/23/07
    Women who regularly enjoy an alcoholic drink or two have a significantly lower risk of having a non-fatal heart attack than women who are life-time abstainers, epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.