News Releases

The first comprehensive study of the location of unemployed men in metropolitan areas, has found that jobless black men occupy a uniquely disadvantageous "ecological niche" that severely limits their potential for future employment.

Before you slip into those jeans made in Swaziland, consider that working conditions in overseas sweatshops have not only helped destroy the U.S. garment industry, but have turned textile workers overseas into the "new slaves" of globalized industrialism.

The late Henry A. Panasci, Jr., a University at Buffalo graduate who co-founded the Fay's drugstore chain, then turned it into a multifaceted billion-dollar corporation, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences during its annual white coat ceremony to be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 25.

An Associated Press article reports on a breakthrough in deciphering khipu, an intricate system of knotted strings in various colors and arrangements believed to be an ancient Incan communication tool, and quotes Galen Brokaw, assistant professor of Romance language and literatures, who calls the findings exciting and significant.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Miss Saigon" at 8 p.m. on Oct. 29 and 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the Mainstage Theatre located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Aug. 24. The performances are sponsored by GEICO. Media sponsor is WBEN-AM.

The School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo will incorporate specialized training in addictive disorders and mental-health conditions into its family nurse practitioner program this fall, making it one of the first nursing schools to offer such training for primary-care nurses.

Two locally owned professional design firms are offering scholarships for minority students who attend the University at Buffalo in the fields of architecture and engineering.

The University at Buffalo's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth has launched a new Web site for its "State of the Region" that will incorporate updates on the project's performance indicators and data as they become available.

Gail Seigel, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and physiology and biophysics in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received a $50,000 Sybil B. Harrington Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness to support her research into diseases of the eye.

A team from the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of three finalists in the National Community Pharmacists Association's Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition.