News Releases

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

  • Center for Teaching and Learning Resources to Present Workshops
    6/3/03
    The Center for Teaching and Learning Resources will present workshops in August for new faculty members and teaching assistants.
  • Program to Look at Graduate Education, Careers in Business
    6/3/03
    Ronald Alsop of The Wall Street Journal will be the keynote speaker at a free public program on careers and graduate education in business to be held from 5:30-9 p.m. June 16 in the Student Union on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus
  • Prasad Receives Excellence Award from SUNY; 14 Other UB Faculty Members Recognized for Research Efforts
    6/2/03
    Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, has been honored by the State University of New York for his "singular contribution to scholarship and the reputation of the university." He was one of 14 UB faculty members honored for their research.
  • UB Exhibit Reveals Links between Visual and Musical Worlds
    6/2/03
    Morton Feldman. George Gershwin. Paul Hindemith. Arnold Schoenberg. Edgard Varese. Five world-renowned composers who, to the surprise of many, also were avid artists or had strong ties to the art world. The composers' deep connections to the visual arts form the basis of "The Composer's Eye," an exhibition at the University at Buffalo of works of arts created and/or admired by the five composers that serves as a complement to this year's June in Buffalo festival and its theme of "Music and the Visual Image."
  • UB Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
    6/2/03
    Students at the University at Buffalo recently were inducted into the Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
  • Researchers Get $1.6 Million NIH Grant to Help End Medication Errors Caused by Similar-Sounding Drug Names
    6/2/03
    A psychology professor at the University at Buffalo is conducting a new study that will look at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program that will address the problem of confusing prescription nomenclature, labeling, packaging and handwriting, a problem that the National Institute of Medicine estimates results in more than 7,000 fatalities a year.
  • Cook, Saran Named Vice Deans of UB Law School
    5/30/03
    Marlene M. Cook and Melinda R. Saran, two longtime staff members of the University at Buffalo Law School, have been promoted to the rank of vice dean.
  • Student-Designed Chairs 'Celebrate the Human Body'
    5/30/03
    The chair. Many view this humble device simply as a means -- sometimes comfortable, sometimes not -- to "take a load off." But for architecture students who completed the seating design assignment in Abir Mullick's "Senior Studio" this spring in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, the chair became something more.
  • Levine to be Honored for Contributions to Field of Community Psychology
    5/30/03
    Murray Levine, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will be honored by his peers on June 5 for his contributions to the field of community psychology, of which he is considered to be a founder.
  • UB Informatics Professors Receive National Award for Distinguished Published Research
    5/30/03
    Two faculty members in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics and a former faculty member will receive of one of the most eminent awards presented by the American Library Association (ALA) on June 21 at the association's annual conference in Toronto.