News Releases

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

  • Enrollment in Chemistry Soars at UB, Bucking a National Decline
    8/20/03
    When Jim D. Atwood became the chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo in 1998, he said he wanted to make freshman chemistry "a little less hated." And with about 30 percent of freshmen flunking out of General Chemistry 101, he had a tough job ahead of him. Now, five years later, having instituted major changes in the freshman chemistry courses, Atwood and his faculty have succeeded beyond their most ambitious dreams.
  • Non-Essential UB Workers Sent Home as Gov. Pataki Closes State Offices
    8/15/03
    Non-essential employees at the University at Buffalo were sent home at 1 p.m. Friday and university offices closed for the remainder of the day, after New York State Governor George E. Pataki closed state offices across New York State in an effort to help reduce the demand for power on the electrical system in the wake of Thursday's power outages.
  • Maggard to Focus on UB Incubator, Services for Business Start-Ups
    8/15/03
    W.W. "Woody" Maggard, president of Reichenbach Technologies, has been appointed associate director for the University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach.
  • Reducing Ergonomic Injury in Assembly Industries is Goal of Research Fellowship Awarded to UB Engineer
    8/15/03
    Victor Paquet watches workers work -- over and over again. An expert on ergonomic job analysis and workplace injury prevention, the University at Buffalo assistant professor of industrial engineering is looking for patterns of repetitive movement that may cause injury to workers on the job.
  • SARS Will Appear Again, as Will Other Viruses Incubating in 'Pandora's Boxes' Around the World, UB Expert Predicts
    8/13/03
    The world can expect more SARS-like outbreaks in the near future due to evolving cultural, environmental and economic conditions that provide viruses with new opportunities to infect humans, according to an expert on infectious disease and geographic medicine at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Team Employs a Panoply of High-Tech Tools to Understand and Predict Devastating Volcanic Flows
    8/13/03
    When officials communicate the dangers of volcanic hazards to local populations, one picture may be worth a thousand words. Keeping that sentiment in mind, scientists at the University at Buffalo working on volcanic hazard mitigation have left no technology untapped as they create images of past volcanic flows in order to better predict future ones.
  • Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Awards Major Grant to UB
    8/13/03
    The University at Buffalo has received a grant of $1,999,200 from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas to establish a Geriatric Center of Excellence in its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Scientists Report First Demonstration Of RNA 'Redox' Chemistry, Bolstering the Case for an RNA World
    8/12/03
    The first demonstration of reduction-oxidation, or redox, chemistry in RNA -- a critical missing link in the experimental evidence for an ancient RNA world -- was reported Sunday by University at Buffalo chemists in Nature Structural Biology online.
  • 'UB Talker' Provides Independence for Those with Speech, Motor Disabilities
    8/7/03
    Students in an upper-level computer software engineering class at the University at Buffalo are helping to solve a real-world problem -- and restore a sense of independence to persons with speech and motor disabilities -- by designing augmentation communication devices.
  • UB Celebrates Commitment to Sustainable Energy Use
    8/5/03
    The University at Buffalo's commitment to sustainable energy use and "green" building principles was underscored today as members of the university community gathered at the Creekside Village apartments to unveil a plaque citing the certification of the complex's community center as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building.