News Releases

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

  • UB Professor Works to Unravel Mysteries of Khipu: Colored, Knotted Strings Used by the Ancient Incas
    12/5/03
    Although the ancient Inca are renowned for their highly organized society and extraordinary skill in working with gold, stone and pottery, few are familiar with the khipu -- an elaborate system of colored, knotted strings that many researchers believe to be primarily mnemonic in nature, like a rosary -- that was used by the ancient conquerors to record information. Because the Inca didn't employ a recognizable system of writing, researchers like UB's Galen Brokaw have focused on the khipu as a way to further illuminate Inca history and culture.
  • School of Management to Hold 50th Annual Institute on Taxation
    12/5/03
    The Center for Executive Development in the University at Buffalo School of Management will hold its 50th annual Institute on Taxation from 12:30-5:30 p.m. on Dec. 11, and from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 12 in the Adam's Mark Hotel.
  • University at Buffalo Awarded $3.8 Million to Train Geographic Information Scientists for the 21st Century
    12/4/03
    The National Science Foundation has selected the University at Buffalo's National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis to receive a highly competitive, five-year, $3.8 million grant to fund a multidisciplinary, graduate-level training program in geographic information science.
  • SUNY Chancellor Names Betty Capaldi Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff
    12/2/03
    State University of New York Chancellor Robert L. King today announced he will recommend that current University at Buffalo Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi be vice chancellor and chief of staff at System Administration.
  • New Research Finds Some Animals Know Their Cognitive Limits
    12/1/03
    A series of studies led by a University at Buffalo psychologist involving a group of Rhesus monkeys and a bottlenose dolphin suggest that some animals have functional features of, or parallels to, human conscious metacognition.
  • Works of Contemporary Chinese Artists Featured in "Chinese Maximalism" Exhibit in UB Art Gallery
    11/26/03
    The University at Buffalo Art Gallery is the only U.S. venue for "Chinese Maximalism," a groundbreaking exhibition of more than 65 works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists that is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the UB Art Gallery and the Millennium Museum in Beijing, China.
  • Center for the Arts to Present the TOPS Family Adventure Series, A Garfield Christmas
    11/24/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present A Garfield Christmas at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Dec. 27 in the Mainstage theater, located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Girls Choir of Harlem to Make its Western New York Debut with a Special Holiday Performance
    11/24/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Girls Choir of Harlem at 2 p.m. on Dec. 13 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Sudden Cardiac Death in Chronic Coronary Artery Disease is caused by Ventricular Fibrillation in the Absence of MI
    11/20/03
    Sudden cardiac death, a situation in which the heart ceases to function without warning, resulting in death within minutes, is precipitated by a devastating disruption of the heart rhythm that can occur without evidence of an acute or healed heart attack, cardiovascular researchers from the University at Buffalo have shown.
  • Effect of Stress on Police Officers' Health to be Subject of Large-Scale Police Study
    11/20/03
    Researchers from the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo have received $1.75 million from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to conduct one of the first large-scale studies on how the stress of police work affects an officer's physical health.