News Releases

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

  • The Derek Trucks Band to Perform Nov. 19 at UB
    10/21/03
    The Center for the Arts will present The Derek Trucks Band with special guest Vusi Mahlasela at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The concert is sponsored by the UB Student Association and WBUF-FM.
  • UB and UR Technologies Being Licensed By Company for Product That Will Put Prescriptions on Digital Paper
    10/21/03
    Illegible prescriptions scrawled on physicians' notepads could become a thing of the past, thanks to two complementary technologies developed at the University at Buffalo and the University of Rochester that together are being licensed by mobileLexis, a digital paper solutions company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • UB to Host Oct. 28 Debate by Candidates for County Executive
    10/21/03
    The University at Buffalo Law School will host a debate between the candidates for Erie County executive at 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 28 in 106 O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Comedian Margaret Cho to Perform in Mainstage Theater
    10/21/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present comedian Margaret Cho at 8 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The event is sponsored by the UB Student Association.
  • Gray Matter Damage in the Brain of MS Patients Linked to Cognitive, Physical Deficits, New UB Research Finds
    10/21/03
    The mental impairment and problems with walking experienced by patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are linked to damage in the brain's gray matter, with MRI findings suggesting the damage is due to toxic deposits of iron, researchers from the University at Buffalo have shown for the first time.
  • UB Industrial Engineering Department Receives Two Awards from International Ergonomics Association
    10/20/03
    The work of the Department of Industrial Engineering in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was recognized with two awards at the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Congress held recently in Seoul, South Korea.
  • Panasci Entrepreneurial Competition Offers $25,000 in Start-Up Funding to UB Students, Recent Alumni
    10/20/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Management is accepting applications for UB's annual Panasci Entrepreneurial Competition, which awards $25,000 in seed capital to UB students and recent alumni who want to start their own business in Western New York.
  • SUNY Chancellor King Recommends John Simpson to be 14th President of the University at Buffalo
    10/17/03
    State University of New York Chancellor Robert L. King today announced he will recommend to the State University of New York Board of Trustees that John Barclay Simpson be the next president of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • UB Launches Its Own High-Speed Data Line to Link Campuses, Affiliated Research Institutions, Boosting Speed by a Factor of 1,000
    10/14/03
    The University at Buffalo this fall will lay approximately 14 miles of fiber-optic cable to enhance critical, high-speed data links between its two campuses and with affiliated research institutions, providing critical connectivity to support its research activity, particularly for the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • Sperm from Marijuana Smokers Move Too Fast Too Early, Impairing Fertility, UB Research Shows
    10/13/03
    Men who smoke marijuana frequently have significantly less seminal fluid, a lower total sperm count and their sperm behave abnormally, all of which may affect fertility adversely, a new study in reproductive physiology at the University at Buffalo has shown.