News Releases

The Jacobs Neurological Institute of the University at Buffalo has received a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to establish at Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo one of six Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Centers of Excellence that it is creating in the United States.

It is estimated that one person in the United States commits suicide every 17 minutes. Three years ago, one of them was Anthony Barr, the 20-year-old brother of media artist Chris Barr, a student in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, who has produced a unique performance piece and video blog titled "17 Minutes," in which he invites visitors to consider one of the worst losses possible.

University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson will speak about a cause close to his heart -- improving public access to higher education -- on Jan. 19 as part of a lecture series sponsored by the UB Graduate School of Education.

For the 10th year running, the University at Buffalo's Gender Institute will present an International Women's Film Festival as a way of highlighting both worthy artists and worthy issues often ignored in the mainstream of American culture.

A nearly four-hour cut of the ambitious biopic "Napoleon" will open the 12th edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars, a semester-long series of screenings and discussions sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center.

Workplace alcohol use and impairment directly affects an estimated 15 percent of the U.S. workforce, or 19.2 million workers, according to a recent study conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) and reported in the current issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

For diabetes patients, who can't produce their own insulin, human stem cell-based transplants that produce insulin would be a major breakthrough. But current laboratory methods of culturing human stem cells result in very limited quantities, far short of the quantities necessary for therapeutic applications. For that reason, Emmanouhl (Manolis) Tzanakakis, Ph.D., is striving to boost the numbers of stem cells produced in the laboratory, expanding the pool of cells that eventually can be differentiated into insulin-producing cells.

The 206th anniversary of the birth of Millard Fillmore, the University at Buffalo's first chancellor and 13th president of the United States, will be observed during a ceremony to be held at 10 a.m. on Jan. 6 in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

David A. Sherris, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was the guest of honor at the first annual meeting of the Italian ORL Society of Facial Plastic Surgery held earlier this month in Verona, Italy.

High school poets have the opportunity to have their work judged by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet by participating in the annual UB Poetry Contest, sponsored by the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences.