News Releases

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

  • UB Choirs to Join Brooklyn Philharmonic in Celebratory Performance
    3/31/05
    The University at Buffalo Choirs will participate in a grand celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Leaves of Grass" by Brooklyn poet laureate Walt Whitman on April 16 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • Fung Named Editor-in-Chief of The AAPS Journal
    3/31/05
    Ho-Leung Fung, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been named the editor-in-chief of The AAPS Journal.
  • Dyson to Speak at Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event
    3/31/05
    Scholar and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson will be keynote speaker for the 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event to be held at 8 p.m. April 7 in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • In The Year that Celebrates Einstein, Physics Is a "Hot" Major at UB
    3/31/05
    Just in time for the world celebration of physics and its most famous practitioner, Albert Einstein, the University at Buffalo is enjoying a banner year in the discipline. This semester, the total number of physics majors at UB has jumped to 73, an impressive 82.5 per cent increase over January 2002, when there were just 40.
  • Robert Creeley, Distinguished American Poet, UB Professor for 37 Years, Dies in Texas
    3/30/05
    Robert Creeley, 78, former SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetics at the University at Buffalo, died today (March 30, 2005) in a hospital in Odessa, Texas, where he was conducting a writer residency funded by the Lannan Foundation. He died from complications of pneumonia.
  • Jorge V. José Named UB Vice President for Research
    3/29/05
    The appointment of Jorge V. José Ph.D., Matthews University Distinguished Professor and chair in the Department of Physics at Northeastern University, as vice president for research at the University at Buffalo was announced today by UB President John B. Simpson.
  • State Court of Appeals Judges to Attend UB Alumni Awards Dinner
    3/29/05
    The chief judge and the six associate judges of the New York State Court of Appeals will be the honored guests of the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association at its 43rd Annual Meeting and Dinner to be held at 6 p.m. April 14 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
  • Free Alcohol Screenings Available at Research Institute on Addictions
    3/29/05
    As part of National Alcohol Screening Day, the Clinical Research Center at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will offer Buffalo-area residents the opportunity to look at their drinking style to see if they are social drinkers or have crossed the line into problem-drinking territory.
  • Quartets to Complete Slee/Beethoven Cycle
    3/25/05
    Two outstanding string quartets -- the Miami String Quartet and the Daedalus String Quartet -- will perform the final two concerts next month in the Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle for 2004-05.
  • Wellness Awareness Day Set for April 6
    3/25/05
    With winter officially at an end, UB faculty and staff can reinvigorate for spring at the sixth annual Wellness Awareness Day, to be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6 in Alumni Arena on the North Campus.