News Releases

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

  • Universidad de Granada Theatre Company to Present Ritos
    9/2/03
    The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program (IACE) of the Department of Theatre and Dance, both in the UB College of Arts in Sciences, will present The Universidad de Granada, Spain in Ritos at 7 p.m. on Sept. 25-26 in the Black Box Theatre located at the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Engineer Creates Software to Detect and Find Leaks in International Space Station
    9/2/03
    A new software system designed by a University at Buffalo aerospace engineer will help NASA detect and find air leaks in the International Space Station.
  • UB Gender Week to Offer Multi-Cultural Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
    8/29/03
    Issues of importance to women, including research, education, health and legal issues, will be in the forefront Sept. 22-26 as UB celebrates its second annual Gender Week. Sponsored by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG), informally known as the Gender Institute, the theme of the week will be "Gender Matters." All events will be free and open to the public.
  • Alumnus Pledges $1.5 Million to UB's Medical School to Establish Chair in Dermatology
    8/29/03
    A pioneer in cancer prevention who appreciated his "quality education," Ralph T. Behling, M.D. '43, has pledged $1.5 million to the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to establish a chair in dermatology.
  • Bono Named Director of UB Gender Institute
    8/29/03
    Barbara Bono, associate professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed director of UB's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender for 2003-05.
  • UB Philosopher Receives $535,000 Grant to Support Medical Informatics Research for European Union
    8/28/03
    Internationally distinguished ontologist Barry Smith, Julian Park Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, has received a $535,000 grant from the European Union's 6th Framework Programme on Research and Technological Development (FP6) to support his work in the field of medical informatics.
  • Center for the Arts to present "Fosse"
    8/28/03
    A 47-week international tour of the Tony Award-winning musical "Fosse" will begin at the Center for the Arts with a two-week residency leading up to public performances at 8 p.m. Sept. 18 and 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Nursing School Launches Fast-Track Degree for College Graduates Who Want to Become Nurses
    8/28/03
    In an innovative approach to easing the chronic nursing shortage, the School of Nursing at the University of Buffalo, in partnership with the Catholic Health System and the Kaleida Health System, is launching a fast-track degree program that allows persons who hold a bachelor's degree in another field to receive a bachelor's of science in nursing in 12 months.
  • How to Ruin a Relationship
    8/21/03
    Squeezing the toothpaste from the wrong end, sneering at her cat or putting the toilet paper roll on backwards can irk your partner no end, even after decades together. But new or old relationships, says a prominent social psychologist from the University at Buffalo, are far more likely to be ruined by one partner's low self-esteem.
  • By Adapting Insights from the University at Buffalo, Zimbabwean Pharmacologist Fights AIDS in Africa
    8/21/03
    Amid the human catastrophe that is AIDS in Africa, the absence of health-care systems and practices that are taken for granted in other parts of the world routinely hampers efforts to care for patients even when assistance is being provided by international organizations and charities. But in Zimbabwe, a native son who is the nation's first pharmacologist is helping to remove these obstacles and provide meaningful care to HIV/AIDS patients as the result of a joint program between the University at Buffalo and the University of Zimbabwe.