News Releases

In conjunction with the upcoming visit by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus will present "Tibetan Art from the Rubin Museum of Art" Sept. 16-23.

In conjunction with the upcoming visit by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus, will present "Building Cultures: Druk White Lotus School: A Sustainable Model for Education and Design" Sept. 16-23.

Just weeks after the University at Buffalo and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute successfully conducted the first tests of seismic dampers for residential applications, the firm that manufactures the dampers, Taylor Devices, has made its first sale of the protective devices for a residence.

The inaugural University at Buffalo Scholarship Gala will be held on Nov. 4. to raise funds for undergraduate and graduate student scholarships across the university.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a Mandala Sand Painting Sept. 16-19 in the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo studying the effects of alcohol on the brain, using zebrafish as a model, have identified several novel central nervous system proteins that are affected by chronic alcohol exposure.

In his very first visit to a U.S. law school conference, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will publicly share for the first time his thoughts on how religion, particularly Buddhism, can influence law and bring about social change.

The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will host national experts on addictions and substance abuse during a fall seminar series that will begin Sept. 29.

State University of New York Chancellor John R. Ryan has announced that the world's first completely online Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (BEE) program is being offered this fall by the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and by the engineering schools of Binghamton University and Stony Brook University.

This fall, teachers in Ohio won't have to drive across state lines in order to earn a master's degree in education from the University at Buffalo. The UB Graduate School of Education's 33-credit online program, which has been offered to New York State teachers for more than five years, will be available to Ohio educators starting with the fall 2006 semester.