News Releases

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

  • Exhibition Says, "Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman!"
    6/13/06
    The late Morton Feldman once said that composers make plans and music laughs. Feldman should know. He was an extraordinary, pioneering composer who made an impressive and unique contribution to 20th-century American music. He also was Edgar Varese Professor of Composition at the University at Buffalo from 1972 until his death in 1987. This year marks his 80th birthday and in celebration, the UB Music Library has opened an exhibition of material from its Morton Feldman Collection that will run through Sept. 11.
  • Symposium on Intellectual Property Rights to be Held
    6/12/06
    To better examine issues that include continually increasing cyber threats, intellectual property rights violations and trademark infringement and signal theft the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE) at the University at Buffalo will host an Intellectual Property Rights Symposium on June 21.
  • Adult Stem Cell Research at UB Targets Damaged Hearts
    6/12/06
    A specialist in stem cell biology at the University at Buffalo has received a $1.98 million grant from National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of bone marrow-derived adult stem cells to treat the serious heart malfunction known as hibernating myocardium.
  • Five Honored by UB Students for Their Teaching
    6/9/06
    Five faculty members and lecturers at the University at Buffalo have received Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Awards from the undergraduate Student Association for their commitment to students and the quality of their teaching.
  • Lockport Family Establishes Scholarship for UB History Majors
    6/9/06
    Would-be history teacher Bryan Argo never graduated from the University at Buffalo, but his memory, through the generosity of his family and friends, has lived on in the Bryan G. Argo Memorial Scholarship in History, awarded this year to Justin Martin, a senior from North Tonawanda.
  • UB School of Management, M&T Bank Partner for Financial Literacy
    6/8/06
    The University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank are partnering to bring an innovative personal finance curriculum into area high schools.
  • Law Students Receive Commencement Awards
    6/7/06
    University at Buffalo Law School students received honors and awards at the school's 117th commencement ceremony held on May 20.
  • Canty to Head UB's New Cardiovascular Medicine Division
    6/6/06
    John M. Canty, Jr., M.D., Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor of Medicine, has been named chief of the new Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Magnetic Field Acts as "Remote Control" to Deliver Nanomedicine
    6/6/06
    A nanoparticle-based drug delivery concept in which an applied magnetic field directs the accumulation in tumor cells of custom-designed, drug-filled nanocarriers has been demonstrated by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • At UB Center of Excellence, Buffalo Students Glimpse Their Future
    6/5/06
    Two hundred Buffalo Public Schools middle and high school students were the guests of honor today (June 6) when University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson welcomed them to a tour and a morning of scientific demonstrations in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.