News Releases

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

  • Buffalo Native to Perform in National Tour of "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway"
    3/1/07
    Pianist and conductor Charles Czarnecki will return to his hometown to perform as part of the live band in the national tour of "Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway," which will be performed at the University at Buffalo at 8 p.m. on March 24 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Nora Ephron Cancels Lecture at UB
    2/28/07
    Journalist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director Nora Ephron has cancelled her plans to participate in the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series with a lecture on March 28.
  • CFA to Present "Spider-Man Unmasked" on April 20
    2/27/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Spider-Man Unmasked" at 8 p.m. on April 20 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson to Discuss Efforts to Restrict Habeas Corpus
    2/27/07
    The Honorable James Robertson, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, will deliver the University at Buffalo Law School's annual Mitchell Lecture at 11 a.m. March 21 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB, JCC Sign Dual Admission Program Agreement
    2/23/07
    The University at Buffalo and Jamestown Community College have signed a new dual admission program agreement designed to assist the transfer experience and increase the number of students transferring to UB with completed JCC associate degrees that include prerequisites for parallel degree programs at UB.
  • 'Copyright Panic' Leads to Irrational Expansion of Rights
    2/23/07
    New digital technologies and broadband Internet access have increased digital piracy of music, movies and other creative products. But the threat of widespread digital piracy also has produced "copyright panic," spawning an illogical expansion of copyright protections in recent years, contends an intellectual property expert at the University at Buffalo Law School.
  • Anderson to Step Down as UB Pharmacy Dean
    2/23/07
    Wayne K. Anderson, dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has announced he is stepping down as dean after nearly 10 years in the position and returning to the faculty as a researcher and educator.
  • Study to Look at Aspirin as Aid to Conception, Healthy Pregnancy
    2/22/07
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Utah are beginning a clinical trial to test whether aspirin can improve a woman's chances of becoming pregnant and of maintaining a pregnancy to term.
  • "Environmental Milestone" Reaps Both Kinds of Green Benefits
    2/22/07
    More than a decade ago, the University at Buffalo made a major investment in reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a $17 million comprehensive energy-conservation project. With the final payment made on the loan that partially funded the project, UB now will realize $4 million in annual energy-cost savings as a result of the work that was done.
  • The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree
    2/22/07
    Long-held assumptions about sexual identity and gendered behavior have been turned upside down by a groundbreaking new study of the lives, roles and spiritual practices of the Mapuche shamans of southern Chile.