News Releases

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

  • Corals Can Reestablish Symbiosis with Algae from Their Environments after Bleaching
    6/3/04
    Corals can develop new symbiotic relationships with algae from their environments after they've undergone bleaching, the process by which corals whiten as a result of environmental stress, University at Buffalo biologists report in the current issue of Science.
  • Subsidy War Could Harm Boeing More Than Airbus, Says UB Researcher
    6/3/04
    Boeing could jeopardize the launch funding of the new 7E7 aircraft should it press for an investigation of government subsidies received by rival Airbus because Boeing itself has received government subsides that violate world-trade agreements, according to David Pritchard, a research associate at the Canada-United States Trade Center within the University at Buffalo Department of Geography.
  • Historic Bentley Snow Crystal Collection Available Online, Thanks to Digital Library Produced by UB Students
    6/3/04
    He was an odd-duck Vermont farmer who invented photomicrography and produced thousands of stunning photographs of snow crystals to prove that no two are alike. He made 10,000 glass photomicrographic plates, upon which he captured the images of individual snow crystals, dew and frost. Over the years, the glass plates deteriorated, however, and the work of Wilson Alwyn Bentley might have been lost forever to researchers and the public, had not a group of graduate students from the University at Buffalo stepped in to save it for posterity.
  • Students Honored at UB Medical School Commencement
    6/3/04
    Forty-five graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received awards at the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB Alumnus Receives Accounting Award
    6/3/04
    University at Buffalo School of Management alumnus Tim Rogers received the UB "Accounting Alumnus of the Year" Award at the annual UB Accounting and Law Awards Banquet, held in April in the Buffalo Marriott Hotel.
  • Engineering Honors Scholarship Fund Established to Honor Past UB President Steven B. Sample
    6/1/04
    Several local business leaders recently surprised former University at Buffalo President Steven B. Sample with a scholarship named on his behalf, an honor they felt is befitting the visionary leader noted for his legendary support of scholarship at the highest levels.
  • Johnson & Johnson Gives $180,000 to UB for Development of Smart Sensor System
    6/1/04
    Johnson & Johnson, through its Focused Giving Program, has committed $180,000 to the University at Buffalo to develop a biologically inspired smart sensor system (BIS3) that would have potential applications in medical and industrial situations, and that could enhance U.S. military efforts to improve homeland security.
  • UB to Offer Career Perspectives Seminar Series
    5/28/04
    Career Perspectives, a series of free evening seminars designed to offer information for college and high school students exploring career options after graduation, as well as persons looking to make a career change, will be offered during June at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Law School to Present Lectures on Elder Law Topics
    5/28/04
    An evening lecture series offering presentations on a variety of topics of interest to senior citizens, including the new Medicare prescription drug law, paying for long-term care and planning for death or disability, will be held in June on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Notoriously Difficult-to-Read "Ulysses" Actually Quite Simple to Understand, Says UB Joyce Scholar
    5/27/04
    The world's most notoriously difficult-to-read novel, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, is really an easy read at its heart, according to the Joyce Scholar-In-Residence at the University at Buffalo. "For all the talk about the difficulty of "Ulysses," it is actually a fairly simple book," says Sam Slote, who works alongside curators at UB's renowned James Joyce Collection -- the world's most comprehensive archive of Joyce literary artifacts and personal belongings.