News Releases

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

  • UB Dental School Is Reaccredited Until 2010; Several Programs Receive Special Commendation
    2/12/04
    The School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo has been reaccredited for another seven years, the maximum time allowable for a dental school.
  • Buffalo Public Interest Law Program Auction to Raise Funds for Public Interest Fellowships
    2/12/04
    Want to feel good while snagging a bargain? Then attend the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program's ninth annual fundraising auction, to be held from 7-10 p.m. on Feb. 27 in the Rich Renaissance Niagara Conference Center, Buffalo.
  • Fuld Trust Awards UB Nursing School $500,000 Endowment
    2/10/04
    The School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo is one of 10 nursing schools in the U.S. chosen by the Helene Fuld Health Trust to receive a major endowment to fund student scholarships.
  • Fear of "Friday the 13th" Most Likely Originated from Jesus' Last Supper and Crucifixion, Says UB Anthropologist
    2/9/04
    "Friday the 13th's" association with bad luck is one of countless examples of humankind's universal predisposition for magical thinking -- the belief that thoughts, words or actions will produce an outcome that defies normal laws of cause and effect, says Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo
  • UB Seeks Participants for First Annual Technology Entrepreneur Competition
    2/6/04
    The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the University at Buffalo School of Management and the UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach are seeking students and recent alumni to participate in the inaugural Technology Entrepreneur Competition.
  • UB Sophomore Has Time of His Life as Contestant on College Week Edition of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire"
    2/6/04
    At just 19 years old, one UB student's 15 minutes of fame came early in life, but he says he hopes it won't be his last. In early January, Paul Hebert, a sophomore double-major in English and philosophy, left the frigid temperatures of his hometown of Albany and flew to balmy Florida to be a contestant on the College Week edition of ABC's popular game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
  • Researcher Finds that Race Is No Longer a Dominant Identity Marker for American Youth
    2/6/04
    In a study of how American high school students describe their social identities, an education professor at the University at Buffalo has found that a sizeable number of young people downplay conventional racial and ethnic labels and are constructing social identities unlike those of previous generations.
  • Shakespeare Meets The Simpsons as Center for the Arts Presents MacHomer
    2/6/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present MacHomer on at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Feb 27 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. MacHomer is sponsored by the UB Student Association.
  • UB to Display Groundbreaking Chinese Art Exhibition
    2/5/04
    "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art," the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art to travel beyond China, will be on display in the UB Art Galleries and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 2005.
  • CCR and Verizon Bring Bioinformatics to High Schools
    2/5/04
    A strategy in Buffalo aimed at stimulating awareness of careers in the life sciences, particularly bioinformatics, has spurred local teachers and the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo to develop several in-school programs to introduce bioinformatics to area high school students.