News Releases

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

  • Research Links Change in Brain with Addiction
    2/1/07
    A researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions has found a change in the brain that occurs after drug use and that may contribute to drug addiction.
  • Dental School Sets Fifth Annual "Give Kids a Smile Day"
    1/25/07
    Eight hundred children and their parents are scheduled to fill dental clinics in the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo and the Pediatric Dental Clinic at Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo on Feb. 2 to take part in the fifth annual Give Kids a Smile Day.
  • Sensitivity to Rejection Based on Appearance Bad for Mental, Physical Health
    1/25/07
    Three new studies by a University at Buffalo psychologist offer the first known evidence that some people anxiously expect that they will be rejected by others because of their physical appearance, and that this sensitivity, if not mitigated, has serious implications for their mental and physical health.
  • Cameron Baird Foundation Gives $20,000 to WBFO 88.7FM for HD Radio Conversion
    1/25/07
    The Cameron Baird Foundation has given a $20,000 grant to WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, to be used for installing the new technology of broadcasting in digital format, known as HD Radio.
  • Public Safety Data, Maps Added to Regional Knowledge Network
    1/25/07
    The latest data on violent crime, fire fatalities and alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents in Western New York are among 52 Public Safety variables just added to the Regional Knowledge Network, an online information resource developed by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute.
  • Peradotto's Aeschylus Article Among Best in Past 50 Years
    1/25/07
    "The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, has been included an anthology of 13 of the most important articles on the Greek playwright Aeschylus published in the past 50 years.
  • Aaron Lewis of Staind to Present Solo Acoustic Performance on April 4
    1/24/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Aaron Lewis of Staind at 8 p.m. on April 4 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Feb. 2.
  • The Decemberists, with Special Guest My Brightest Diamond, to Perform March 30
    1/24/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Decemberists at 8 p.m. on March 30 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Feb. 2.
  • 11th Annual Women's Film Festival Runs Through March 1
    1/23/07
    "Crossings," the 11th annual International Women's Film Festival presented by the Institute for Research and Education on Woman and Gender, will begin be held on Thursdays beginning Jan. 25 and running through March 1 in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St.
  • Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai to Speak at UB
    1/23/07
    Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, will be the keynote speaker for the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event at the University at Buffalo, to be held at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.