News Releases

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.

"Mr. Freeze," the Chem-E-Car designed by chemical engineering students in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finished fourth in the seventh annual Chem-E-Car competition held recently in Cincinnati.

The Gifted Math Program at the University at Buffalo is accepting nominations from schools and parents of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students for its Fall 2006 class.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Adam Ferrara with Joe Starr at 8 p.m. on Feb. 17 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for Urban Studies in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a three-year, $359,090 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund a comprehensive, university-assisted community development plan for two Buffalo neighborhoods in serious decline.

The dates for the visit to the University at Buffalo by His Holiness the Dalai Lama have been changed to Sept. 18-20, 2006.

Turner Gill, who was part of three national championships as a coach at the University of Nebraska and a Heisman Trophy finalist as a player, agreed to a five-year contract to become the 23rd head football coach at the University at Buffalo today. Financial terms, by university policy, were not disclosed.