News Releases

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

  • Buffalo Schools Will Be the Laboratory as UB Researchers Attack Reading Problems with $1.5 Million Grant
    7/12/04
    James L. Collins, Ed.D., professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has, over the course of his 35-year career, developed many writing strategies to help children who struggle with reading improve both their reading comprehension and writing skills. Over the next three years, Buffalo school children will help Collins put some new theories to the test.
  • New Play at the Edinburgh Fringe Will Feature Buffalo Playwright, Director and UB Cast
    7/9/04
    "Playing it Cool," a new one-act play by University at Buffalo alumnus and Buffalo native Rachel Lynn Brody, will premiere at Scotland's high-energy, often controversial Edinburgh Theatre Festival Fringe, which will take place next month.
  • Jazz, Rock, Blues, World-Music Artists The Derek Trucks Band to Perform Nov. 17 at UB
    7/9/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on Nov. 17 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Mirror-Image of Tarantula Venom Peptide Shows Promise as a Drug, UB Biophysicists Find
    7/8/04
    A tarantula venom peptide, GsMTx4, known to affect many organs, can be manipulated to withstand destruction in the stomach, making it a promising candidate for drugs that could treat cardiac arrhythmias, muscular dystrophy and many other conditions, University at Buffalo biophysicists have shown.
  • Study Is First to Link Drug-Abusing Fathers to Serious Psychopathology in Their Children
    7/7/04
    A study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Old Dominion University has found that being raised by a father who abuses drugs is even more harmful to the mental health of school-aged children than being raised by a father who is an alcoholic.
  • "Vitruvius," a Home Built According to Principles of Universal Design, Will Be Presented at 2004 Horizons Home Show
    7/6/04
    "Vitruvius" is the name given to a new home designed by Heartland Homes in collaboration with the Research Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Lab) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB Law School Graduates Establish Fund in Honor of Former Professor Louis Del Cotto
    7/2/04
    Seven former students of Louis A. Del Cotto, J.D. '51, a highly respected tax authority and professor emeritus in the University at Buffalo Law School, have established an endowment fund -- kicking it off with $75,000 in gifts and pledges -- to honor the man they credit with providing the foundation for their own successful careers.
  • Chemical Engineering Professor Wins Top International Award in Applied Chemical Thermodynamics
    7/1/04
    David Kofke, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded the prestigious 2004 John M. Prausnitz Award for "significant and lasting contributions to the field of applied chemical thermodynamics."
  • An Expanding Waistline May Bring with It Fatty Liver Disease, UB Researchers Find, in Study of Liver Enzymes and Central Adiposity
    7/1/04
    A new study from the University at Buffalo has found that excessive fat around one's middle -- the familiar "potbelly" -- is a strong predictor of potential liver damage.
  • Charles Cary Rumsey's Massive Olympic Friezes, Now Cast in Bronze, Being Installed on UB's North Campus
    6/30/04
    The University at Buffalo is installing three monumental bas-relief friezes depicting athletes engaged in Olympic sports that were conserved, restored and cast in bronze by students and faculty of the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences.