News Releases

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

  • Coppens to Receive Prestigious International Ewald Prize
    2/15/05
    Philip Coppens, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor and Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Ewald Prize by the International Union of Crystallography.
  • First and Second Row Orchestra Seats for "Rent" Available for $20 on Day of Performance Only
    2/14/05
    Seats in the front two rows of the orchestra (center section) will be made available for $20 on a first-come, first-served basis both performances of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical "Rent" to be performed Feb. 22 and 23 in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts.
  • School of Architecture and Planning to Host Lecture by Norwegian Einar Jarmund
    2/14/05
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning will host a slide lecture by Einar Jarmund, founder and principle of one of Norway's finest architectural firms, Jarmund/Vigsnaes Architects, who will present a slide lecture on Feb. 16 as part of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's 2004-05 lecture series.
  • UB Department of Industrial Engineering and TCIE Launch a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program
    2/11/05
    The highly sought-after quality methodology called Six Sigma is now available to University at Buffalo students in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
  • Janaina Tschape to be Presented Feb. 18-March 26 in UB Art Gallery
    2/11/05
    Janaina Tschape will open in University at Buffalo Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts at 5 p.m. on Feb. 18 with a gallery talk with the artist, Janaina Tschape, and UB Art Gallery curator, Sandra Firmin, followed by a reception from 6-7:30 p.m.
  • Ingestion of Afterbirth Appears to Promote Maternal Behavior in Mammals
    2/11/05
    A behavioral neuroscientist at the University at Buffalo holds that the ingestion of afterbirth by a mother, a feature of pregnancy in nearly all non-human mammals, not only relieves postpartum pain, but optimizes the onset of maternal behavior by mediating the activity of specific opioid activity circuits in the brain.
  • Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program Begins this Month
    2/10/05
    Fifteen minority and women entrepreneurs from the Buffalo-Niagara region have been selected in a competitive process to participate in the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program offered by the University at Buffalo School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.
  • Promising Anti-TB Compound Finally Can Be Synthesized with Ease
    2/10/05
    An efficient new strategy for synthesizing a natural marine product, which shows promising anti-tuberculosis activity but cannot be efficiently synthesized using conventional chemistry, is being reported by University at Buffalo organic chemists online in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
  • Novel "Canary on a Chip" Sensor Measures Tiny Changes in Cell Volume; Provides Assay Results in Minutes
    2/10/05
    A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation or chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo.
  • Expert Witness in Ten Commandments Lawsuit to Speak at UB
    2/10/05
    University at Tulsa law professor Paul Finkelman, the chief expert witness in the lawsuit that forced the removal of a 5,500-pound Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building, will discuss observations about that case and similar ones during a lecture at the University at Buffalo Law School, to be held from 12:30-2 p.m. Feb. 18 in 104 O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.