News Releases

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

  • Fundraising Effort to Create Bahl Professorship
    10/3/05
    The family of the late Om Parkash Bahl, a distinguished University at Buffalo professor whose scientific research led to the development of the home pregnancy test, is remembering him by raising money for a new endowed professorship in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB to Honor Audiologist, Clarence Resident
    10/3/05
    The University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences is honoring nationally known audiologist and alumnus Sebastian "Red" Rosica, Ed.M. '50, with its 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award, noting his outstanding professional achievement.
  • To Track Damage and Decisions, Scientists Head to New Orleans
    9/30/05
    Days after Hurricane Katrina hit, research teams from the University at Buffalo's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research were dispatched to the Mississippi coast to conduct structural analysis and remote sensing of damage to large structures. On Oct, 3, MCEER will send three teams of researchers to New Orleans, again with funding primarily from the National Science Foundation.
  • Homecoming to be Held Oct. 5-9
    9/29/05
    The UB Alumni Association will host a variety of activities during Homecoming Week 2005, to be held Wednesday through Oct. 9 on both the North (Amherst) and South (Main Street) campuses.
  • SUNY Researchers to Discuss Homeland Security Projects
    9/27/05
    Researchers from throughout the State University of New York system will gather to discuss emerging and ongoing research in homeland security at a conference being organized by the University at Buffalo, the University at Albany Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, and Stony Brook University.
  • Participants Sought for Panasci Technology Competition
    9/27/05
    Recent University at Buffalo alumni and UB students with innovative ideas in the technology, life science and engineering industries are being sought as participants in the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC).
  • Study Tests New Method to Instill Abstinence after Detox
    9/27/05
    An addiction specialist at the University at Buffalo has received a $1.28 million grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop and test a new program designed to improve abstinence rates after alcohol detoxification.
  • Bush's Approval Ratings Should Improve After Rita
    9/27/05
    President Bush's approval ratings should improve as a result of the federal government's improved disaster response following Hurricane Rita, according to University at Buffalo political scientist James E. Campbell, Ph.D., an expert on presidential politics and election forecasting.
  • Teen Labels Provide Insights into Drug, Alcohol Use
    9/23/05
    The labels that teen-agers use to describe themselves and their peers provide an insight into their drug and alcohol use, according to a study at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • Reducing Women's HIV Risk Focus of Study
    9/23/05
    Improving the understanding of women's alcohol use and risky sexual behavior and the impact of alcohol treatment on women's HIV risk behaviors are the goals of research to be conducted under a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to a researcher at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.