News Releases

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

  • UB Becomes Partner in Kids Voting Western New York
    10/2/06
    The University at Buffalo announced today that it is joining a strategic alliance to support and expand the Kids Voting Western New York program.
  • Master Planning Process to Start as UB Plans for Major Growth
    9/28/06
    President John B. Simpson today announced that the University at Buffalo is beginning a master planning process focusing on future campus and facilities needs in conjunction with plans to grow the university by 750 faculty members and 10,000 students over the next 15 years.
  • Al Gore, Nora Ephron, Anderson Cooper on UB Lecture Slate
    9/28/06
    Former vice president Al Gore will speak at the University at Buffalo next April to cap the 2006-07 Distinguished Speakers Series. The series, which opened on Sept. 19 with a special 20th-anniversary lecture by 1989 Nobel Peace Prize recipient His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, will host a second Nobel Peace Prize recipient later this season: Wangari Maathai, an activist and environmentalist.
  • UB Art Gallery to present "Kim Jones: A Retrospective"
    9/27/06
    "Kim Jones: A Retrospective" will open in the First Floor, Lightwell and Second Floor Galleries at UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) with a public reception on Oct. 19 from 5-7 p.m. The artist will be in attendance.
  • Bright Named Chair of UB Department Of Chemistry
    9/26/06
    Frank V. Bright, Ph.D., UB Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and A. Conger Goodyear Professor of Chemistry, has been named chair of the Department of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Concert to Benefit Public Interest Law Program
    9/26/06
    Two University at Buffalo Law School professors and two second-year law students will be among the featured performers at a benefit concert that will raise scholarship funds for students pursuing internships and careers in public interest law.
  • Midterm Elections: Control of House a "Toss-Up"
    9/26/06
    The Democratic Party is likely to net 10-16 seats in the House of Representatives as a result of the 2006 midterm elections, according to a forecast by University at Buffalo political scientist James E. Campbell.
  • Party to Thank WNY Women for Participating in Landmark Study
    9/25/06
    Western New York women who took part in the landmark 12-year Women's Health Initiative will be celebrated in a "WHI Participant Recognition Day" on Saturday, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m. to noon in front of Farber Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Hybrid Nanoparticles for Multimodal Medical Imaging
    9/25/06
    Since X-rays were discovered more than a century ago, triggering a revolution in medical imaging, clinicians have sought more powerful ways to "see" into the human body. Now, with a $1.1 million grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation, researchers in the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics are turning their expertise in nanomedicine to the development of new, nanoparticle-based multi-probe systems, launching a new generation of medical imaging.
  • School of Management Salutes Community Service Agencies
    9/20/06
    "Serving Those Who Serve Others" was the theme of the second annual Community Service Fair on Sept. 13 at the UB School of Management.