News Releases

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

  • The UB Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center for the Arts to present "Spinning Into Butter"
    9/30/04
    The Center for the Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present "Spinning Into Butter," October Oct. 14-17 and 21-24 in the Black Box Theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB School of Management to Present Lecture on Business Ethics
    9/30/04
    The University at Buffalo School of Management MBA Program will sponsor a lecture on "Ethical Leadership" to be presented by W. Michael Hoffman, Ph.D., founder and executive director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 in the Center for the Arts Screening Room on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Are the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox Cursed?
    9/30/04
    Technically speaking, the Chicago Cubs are "cursed," and the Boston Red Sox are "jinxed," according to a renowned anthropologist at the University at Buffalo who studies the origins of cults, superstitions and cultural identities.
  • Feldman's Collected Poems Will Be Subject of Reading
    9/30/04
    Irving Feldman, a poet whose work has brought him recognition as a MacArthur Fellow and SUNY Distinguished Professor, will read from his latest book at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 in 250 Baird Hall on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Surprise Energy Savings of $11,000 in One Day Prompts UB to Tell Students, Faculty and Staff to 'Turn It Off'
    9/29/04
    One hot summer's day in 2003, a couple of days after the big blackout, the University at Buffalo was quick to respond to an emergency request from the regional grid to cut back its electricity use. Maintenance personnel took steps to turn off equipment and lights that were not absolutely necessary. When the university got the bill, it found that those steps, taken in a single day, had saved UB a lot of money.
  • British Architect Will Alsop to Speak at UB October 20
    9/29/04
    Will Alsop, who because of his avant-garde and strikingly odd-looking buildings is considered something of a maverick on the British architectural scene, will present a slide lecture of his work on Oct. 20 at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Huw Davies, UB Chemist and Developer of New Synthesis Methods, Will Receive Top Organic Chemistry Award
    9/27/04
    Huw M. L. Davies, Ph.D., Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded a prestigious Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society.
  • UB Opens $21.2 Million Earthquake Engineering Simulation Facility
    9/24/04
    A new era in earthquake-engineering research was ushered in today with the grand opening of the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility within the University at Buffalo Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
  • Nearly 50 Events to be Held in October in Conjunction with Investiture of UB's 14th President
    9/24/04
    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.
  • Abandoned Camp in the Woods to Become Field Campus for UB's Environmental Studies Program
    9/24/04
    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.