News Releases

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

  • UB Graduate Students Design Metaphorical Home for "Water-Souls Longing for the Sea"
    10/7/03
    The process by which architects are trained involves a complex mix of architectural history and philosophical concepts of space, time, place, analogy and "re-making" that is difficult to describe. Occasionally there is an opportunity to examine at one time and place just how an architect-in-training learns that process. The 10-week, three-course summer graduate seminar conducted in Barcelona, Spain, by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is one such opportunity.
  • UB Community Initiative Works to Visually Brand and Market the University Heights District
    10/6/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and a consortium of commercial and community leaders are working to identify, analyze and ultimately help resolve issues of concern to Buffalo's University Heights neighborhood in which UB's South (Main Street) Campus is located.
  • Comedians and Magicians to Entertain at UB Homecoming/Family Weekend, Oct. 15-18
    10/3/03
    Nationally known comedians Bobby Collins and Caroline Rhea, and the husband-and-wife magician team The Pendragons will be among the highlights of Homecoming/Family Weekend to be held at the University at Buffalo from Oct. 15-18.
  • Former UB Faculty Member Coetzee Wins Nobel Prize
    10/2/03
    J.M. Coetzee, a faculty member in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo from 1968-71 and Butler Professor of English at UB in 1984 and 1986, has been named winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Ailey II as part of KeyBank Dance Series
    10/2/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Ailey II at 8 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by KeyBank. Media sponsors are WGRZ-TV and WJYE-FM.
  • UB Offering Bachelor's Degree Program in Asian Studies
    10/2/03
    University at Buffalo students interested in studying Asian civilizations and contemporary societies now can register for the new interdisciplinary bachelor's degree program in Asian studies.
  • "America's Foremost Commentator on Everything" Lewis Black to Perform at UB
    10/2/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present a performance by Lewis Black at 8 p.m. on Oct. 29 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Sponsors for the event are the UB undergraduate Student Association and WBUF-FM.
  • UB Surface Scientists Solve the Riddle of Why One Fiberglass, Which 'Should' be Pathogenic, Isn't
    10/1/03
    The tradeoff in fiberglass insulation products has always been between strength and safety: making glass fibers stronger by adding aluminum oxide to them also increases the risk that they will cause lung cancer when inhaled. But biomaterials and biophotonics researchers at the University at Buffalo recently reported on the surprising chemical mechanism behind one type of fiberglass fortified with aluminum oxide that does not persist in the lungs.
  • Overwhelmed by Stress, Sadness or Unexplained Aches and Pains? Free, Anonymous Help Will Be Available on Oct. 9
    9/29/03
    On Oct. 9, the Psychological Services Center at the University at Buffalo will offer, in conjunction with National Depression Screening Day, free, anonymous mental health screenings for a range of common emotional situations that often go undiagnosed and misunderstood, although excellent and proven treatments are available.
  • 2004 Election Should be Close, but Bush May Have a Historical Edge, Says UB Expert on Presidential Campaigns
    9/29/03
    Circumstances leading up to the 2004 presidential election seem to point to another tightly contested race, though probably not the nail-biter of 2000, predicts a University at Buffalo political scientist who studies U.S. presidential campaigns.