News Releases

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

  • CCR Increases Computing Power, Interactions with Researchers
    2/22/07
    Over the past year, the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research has quadrupled computing power, upgraded its high-performance storage system and installed a new state-of-the-art visualization room. If that wasn't enough, it also moved its entire infrastructure, including a 2,000-processor supercomputer, from the university's North Campus into UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.
  • Music Department Announces March Concert Lineup
    2/22/07
    March concerts planned by the Department of Music will include "Piano Music and Comedy," in which Magnus Martensson, visiting assistant professor of music and music director of the UB Symphony Orchestra and the Slee Sinfonietta, will present another side of his musical talent.
  • UB Art Gallery to Host Exhibition of First-Year MFA Students
    2/21/07
    "OCTET," an exhibition of artwork by first-year MFA students from the Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, will open on March 1 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Compounds Target RNA Linked to Type of Muscular Dystrophy
    2/21/07
    A University at Buffalo medicinal chemist has identified compounds to target a ribonucleic acid (RNA) that causes a form of muscular dystrophy called myotonic dystrophy, or DM.
  • Evidence, A Dance Company to perform March 23 in CFA
    2/21/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Evidence, A Dance Company at 8 p.m. on March 23 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The company will also be in residence March 5-23.
  • Seminars to Focus on Addictions-Related Topics
    2/20/07
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions is presenting a spring seminar series on addictions-related topics featuring national experts beginning on March 9.
  • "Poetics Plus" Sets Lineup
    2/19/07
    "Poetics Plus," the poetry series presented by the Poetics Program in the Department of English in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, is back this semester with another lineup of notable poets.
  • Winter to Present Inaugural Critical Studies Seminar
    2/19/07
    Kari Winter, associate professor in the Department of American Studies, will discuss "From Vermont Abolitionist to Virginia Slaveholder: Benjamin Franklin Prentiss and the Familial Politics of Antebellum America" on Feb. 28 in the inaugural Critical Studies Seminar presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.
  • Dandes, Lippes Reappointed to UB Council
    2/19/07
    Jonathan A. Dandes and Gerald S. Lippes have been reappointed to the 10-member University at Buffalo Council, the university's local governing council.
  • Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier in Women than Men
    2/19/07
    The "diabetes clock" may start ticking in women years in advance of a medical diagnosis of the disease, new research has shown.