News Releases

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

  • UB Center for the Arts to Present Barry Manilow's Nationally Touring Musical "Copacabana"
    4/7/03
    The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present the nationally touring production of Barry Manilow's Copacabana at 8 p.m. on May 16 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Nowak Named Director of Scientific Planning for UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
    4/4/03
    Norma Jean Nowak, Ph.D., a world-class scientist whose research has contributed directly to the Human Genome Project, as well as to microarray-based approaches to understanding heritable disorders and cancer, has been named director of scientific planning for the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
  • Chet Raymo to Present Reading at UB on April 28 as Part of WBFO's "Meet the Author" Series
    4/4/03
    Chet Raymo author of "The Path: A One Mile Walk Through the Universe, will give a reading from his book at 7 p.m. on April 28 in the auditorium of Allen Hall on the South Campus.
  • Distinguished UB Graduate is China's New Education Minister
    4/4/03
    Zhou Ji, a distinguished researcher and scholar who received master's and doctoral degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named minister of education of the People's Republic of China.
  • Free Alcohol Screening to be Offered by RIA
    4/4/03
    The clinical research center at the UB's Research Institute on Addictions will offer Buffalo-area residents free alcohol screening on April 10 as part of the fifth annual National Alcohol Screening Day.
  • Particles from U.S. Dust Storms of the 1930s May Have Traveled as Far as Greenland, UB Research Shows
    4/3/03
    Specks of dust may have traveled from America's Great Plains all the way to Greenland in the Arctic Region during the Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s, according to new findings by atmospheric physicists at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Students to 'Explore Mars' in Utah
    4/3/03
    University at Buffalo doctoral student Brent Garry has always wanted to go to Mars, but for now he'll settle for Utah. For the next 10 days, he and Abby Semple, another UB doctoral student, will be part of a small team that is simulating the living and working conditions on Mars by donning space suits, exploring the geology of the very "Mars-like" canyons of Utah.
  • Groundbreaking Held for New Student Center in UB School of Management
    4/3/03
    A groundbreaking ceremony was held today for the Alfiero Center, the new, three-story addition that will adjoin the Jacobs Management Center of the University at Buffalo School of Management on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • 'Physics for (Future) CEOs' Will Provide UB Students with a More Pragmatic Approach to Newton's Science
    4/3/03
    OK, "Physics for Poets." Move over. In what is perhaps a sign of the times, University at Buffalo students will be able to fulfill their undergraduate science requirement by taking "Physics for CEOs and Other Decision Makers: the Energy Perspective," a new course focusing on energy issues that will debut in the fall.
  • UB 'Next Generation Scientists' Project Receives $50,000 Grant from Verizon
    4/2/03
    To help today's high school students become tomorrow's scientists and technologists, Verizon is supporting with a $50,000 grant a project offering students at three area high schools the opportunity to build small computer clusters.