News Releases

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

  • Not Wearing Seat Belts Can be Deadly for Police Officers
    1/24/05
    Results of a University at Buffalo study published in the January issue of the Journal of Trauma show that police officers who do not wear a seat belt are 2.6 times more likely to die if their patrol car crashes than officers who use a seat belt.
  • Hadighi to Chair UB Department of Architecture
    1/24/05
    Mehrdad Hadighi, associate professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, who has received repeated notice over the past several years as one of the world's up-and-coming young architects, has been named chair of the school's Department of Architecture.
  • Post-Tsunami Aid Is an Opportunity for Region to Address Inequities, Says Expert on South Asian Economies
    1/24/05
    The influx of foreign aid to areas hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami presents an opportunity for the region to address long-standing economic inequities, according to Jessie P.H. Poon, Ph.D., associate professor of geography at the University at Buffalo.
  • D'Elia Named Associate Dean in School of Informatics
    1/21/05
    George D'Elia, professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies in the School of Informatics, has been named associate dean for research in the school.
  • Scholarships Honor Buffalo Founder of Home Nursing Movement
    1/21/05
    To honor a nursing pioneer and help alleviate the shortage of home-health nurses, the Visiting Nursing Association of Western New York (VNA) and the University at Buffalo School of Nursing have established a $21,000 scholarship fund to provide five full-tuition scholarships for students interested in the field.
  • Simulated Earthquakes to Test Student Engineers' High-Rise Models
    1/21/05
    Civil engineering students from five universities will put their high-rise building models to the test Jan. 29 on the shake table at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory during the first Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition.
  • Nine Works to be Featured in International Women's Film Festival
    1/21/05
    UB's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender will present its ninth annual International Women's Film Festival at 7 p.m. on six successive Thursday evenings -- from Jan. 27 through March 3 -- in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, 639 Main St.
  • Learning New Words by Searching for Clues
    1/20/05
    Two University at Buffalo faculty members who have spent years researching a concept called contextual vocabulary acquisition, in which readers use clues to figure out meanings of unfamiliar words, plan to turn their findings into a curriculum designed to improve reading skills for students nationwide.
  • Center Wins National Project-of-the-Year Award for Providing Technical Assistance to Delphi Thermal
    1/20/05
    A project conducted by The Center for Industrial Effectiveness at UB in collaboration with Delphi Thermal of Lockport to increase the company's competitiveness has been named "Project of the Year" by the University Economic Development Association, a national organization.
  • IBS Patients to Test Novel Treatment Program Aimed At Changing Thoughts and Responses to Symptoms
    1/19/05
    Specialists in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are are conducting a clinical trial of an innovative treatment program that centers on reducing symptoms by changing the way patients think about and respond to potential IBS episodes.