News Releases

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

  • UB Architecture Student Named Tradewell Fellow in Medical Planning
    4/29/05
    The Houston-based architecture and interior design firm of Watkins Hamilton Ross (WHR) has announced that Shouvik Chakaborty, a Bombay native and graduate student in architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has received the firm's prestigious 2005-06 Tradewell Fellowship in Medical Planning.
  • Luiz Kahl to Receive Norton Medal, UB's Highest Award, at 159th General Commencement Ceremony
    4/29/05
    Luiz F. Kahl, chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, will receive the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, UB's highest award, during the university's 159th general commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. May 15 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Department of Media Study to Offer Summer Workshop on "The Poetics of Movement"
    4/29/05
    The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement.
  • Breast-Cancer Risk Linked to Exposure to Traffic Emissions at Menarche, First Birth
    4/29/05
    Exposure to carcinogens in traffic emissions at particular lifetime points may increase the risk of developing breast cancer in women who are lifetime nonsmokers, a study by epidemiologists and geographers at the University at Buffalo has found.
  • UB Affiliating with Two Groups Dedicated to Protecting Workers' Rights
    4/28/05
    The University at Buffalo today announced that it is joining two organizations to demonstrate its commitment to making sure that clothing and other products bearing its name and marks are manufactured under fair, decent and humane working conditions.
  • UB Will Train Vietnamese Engineers
    4/28/05
    The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) have entered into an agreement to allow top scholars from Vietnam to pursue graduate training in science and technology at UB starting this fall.
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Visit UB in Fall 2006 as part of Distinguished Speakers Series
    4/28/05
    The University at Buffalo will host His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 16 months for a two-day visit on Sept. 21 and 22, 2006, that will include a public address as part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.
  • 5 Faculty Members Receive Plesur Awards
    4/27/05
    The undergraduate Student Association (SA) at the University at Buffalo has recognized five faculty members for the quality of their teaching and their commitment to their students by awarding them Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Awards.
  • UB Dedicates School of Management's Alfiero Center
    4/26/05
    The new Alfiero Center of the University at Buffalo's School of Management was dedicated today in a ceremony that included a high-tech ribbon cutting triggered by the click of a computer mouse by Sal and Jeanne Alfiero, who provided a $2 million gift for the three-story student center on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB to Host Largest Collegiate Mud Volleyball Tournament on April 30
    4/22/05
    "Absolute Mud" is the theme for Oozfest 2005, the annual mud volleyball tournament sponsored by the University at Buffalo's Student Alumni Board (USAB), which will be held on April 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Mud Pit on St. Rita's Lane behind UB Stadium on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.