News Releases

While their peers were sunbathing on the beach during spring break, members of UB's Society of Automotive Engineers student chapter traveled to chilly upper Michigan to beat 12 competing teams and take top honors in the society's Clean Snowmobile Challenge, held at Michigan Tech University.

William R. Greiner, 13th president of the University at Buffalo, is sharing his expertise with MBA students as he co-teaches a leadership course in the UB School of Management with Fred Dansereau, professor of organization and human resources.

Good news may be on the horizon for the millions who struggle with chronic bad breath with the identification by oral biologists at the University at Buffalo of several previously unknown halitosis-related bacteria that may represent new targets for treatment.

Campus Parking & Transportation Services has entered into a new bus agreement with Cognisa, a national transportation-and-security company, to provide exclusive bus transportation services to the UB campus, beginning May 16.

The University at Buffalo has been awarded the 2005 Grand Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards for student work in its Small Built Works Studio.

Faculty researchers in the sciences, engineering and biomedical science grappled with the question of how to best develop UB as a leader in nanomaterials during the first UB 2020 "envisioning retreat" held on March 7.

Frederick C. Morin III, M.D., has been named interim vice president for health affairs at the University at Buffalo and interim dean of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, it was announced today by Satish K. Tripathi, Ph.D., UB provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.

Edward Steinfeld, Kenneth MacKay, Lynda Schneekloth and Robert Shibley, all faculty members in the Department of Architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, have been recognized for the quality of their work.

O'Brian Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus will be reopened to students, faculty and staff on Wednesday, March 23. All undergraduate, graduate and law classes scheduled for O'Brian will resume on Wednesday. However, because of the need to repair/and or clean several classrooms in O'Brian, some classes scheduled for classrooms on the second floor of O'Brian are being relocated to classrooms in other buildings. New room assignments for those classes are available on the UB Student Response Center web site at http://www.src.buffalo.edu/

Gayle A. Brazeau, associate dean for academic affairs in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been appointed to a three-year term as an associate editor for the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.