News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Engineer Awarded Prestigious Bodossaki Foundation Prize
    4/22/05
    Paschalis Alexandridis, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded Greece's highest honor for young academics and scientists, the prestigious Bodossaki Foundation Academic Prize in Applied Science.
  • Computer Scientist to Receive Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
    4/22/05
    Alan Selman, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been selected to receive a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
  • Committee Formed to Recruit New Vice President for External Affairs
    4/21/05
    The search to fill the new position of vice president for external affairs has begun, with a search committee in place and a consultant hired to assist in the process.
  • Propensity for Obesity, Diabetes May Occur In Utero
    4/21/05
    The adage "You are what you eat" should be rephrased to include "and so are your children," based on metabolic research pioneered by researchers at the University at Buffalo.