News Releases

The richness and breadth of academics at UB will be showcased during the month of October, with nearly 50 lectures, symposia, workshops and conferences designated as part of the Inaugural Academic Program being held on campus in conjunction with the Oct. 15 investiture of John B. Simpson as UB's 14th president.

An abandoned former 4-H camp in the woods of Sardinia in southern Erie County is well on its way to becoming a year-round, residential, environmental education center, thanks to a unique partnership between UB, Erie County and the not-for-profit environmental group Earth Spirit Educational Services Inc.

Pianist Leon Fleisher open the University at Buffalo Department of Music's concert schedule for October with a recital at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus. Among the other performers appearing at UB in October are the Meridian Arts Ensemble, the Cassatt String Quartet and the Slee Sinfonietta, UB's professional chamber orchestra. All October concerts are among the more than 50 inaugural events celebrating the investiture of John B. Simpson as UB's 14th president.

Higher-education leaders from more than 15 countries -- including presidents from 10 overseas universities -- will gather at UB next month to discuss how globalization and government policies are creating opportunities and barriers for international students who wish to study in the United States or elsewhere in the world.

Obese children as young as 7 show signs of thickening and stiffness of the carotid arteries, a signal that they are headed for premature heart disease, a study conducted in Southern Italy has shown.

In celebration of the lifelong career of Harvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Art and internationally renowned artist and educator, the UB Art Galleries will present "Harvey Breverman: Humanist Impulses, Selected Paintings, Drawings, Prints."

A grand opening ceremony for the new National Science Foundation George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility at the University at Buffalo will be held 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, September 24, 2004) in Ketter Hall on the University at Buffalo's North (Amherst) Campus.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning landmark American musical Rent, written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, is coming to the Mainstage Theatre at the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo for two performances, to be held Feb. 22-23 at 8 p.m. Tickets for all performances will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Sept. 24.

For the fourth consecutive year, the University at Buffalo School of Management has been ranked as one of the world's "top business schools" by The Wall Street Journal.

Lauren Fix, B.S. '86, one of the leading automotive experts in the nation and a frequent guest on national television and cable network shows, will open the University at Buffalo's "UB at Sunrise Downtown" speaker series with a presentation titled "Driving Ambition," to be held Oct. 12 in the Hyatt Regency, 2 Fountain Plaza.