News Releases

In their continuing search for promising targets for treating mental disorders, a group of neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo has identified a pathway critical to the functioning of antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs and drugs for anxiety disorders.

Prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke and exposure to cigarette smoke over the first two years of life have been associated with emotional, behavioral and learning problems later in childhood. A new study in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will enhance understanding of why children exposed to cigarette smoke might have difficulty with self-regulation of behavior that contributes to such problems.

A little more than a year after breaking ground, the UB Libraries will celebrate the completion of a new storage facility with a grand opening reception this afternoon at the cavernous building on Rensch Road across Sweet Home Road from the North Campus.

Two University at Buffalo faculty members have received prestigious Fulbright Scholar awards for 2006-07.

With the establishment of a link between a recent homicide involving the wife of a UB faculty member on a bike path in Clarence and a series of attacks on women in the region more than a decade ago, including one on the bike path near the North Campus in 1990, members of the university community are again reminded that they should not travel alone on the Ellicott Creek bicycle path near the North Campus or on other Western New York pathways.

Performances by organist Gail Archer and pianist Stephen Manes will be the featured concerts presented by the Department of Music during December.

The latest Policy Briefs prepared by the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth contain key findings on poverty in New York State and Western New York and demographic change in the region's rural areas.

Esther G. Eagan has been named associate licensing manager for the Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) at the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stanley Zionts was named a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at its annual recent meeting in Pittsburgh.

For 15 seconds of historic testing, a two-story, wood-frame townhouse built in a laboratory at the University at Buffalo and similar to those found in southern California was shaken violently today by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake like the Northridge quake that struck the Los Angeles area in 1994.