News Releases

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

  • April 13 Concert Set by Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones
    3/7/03
    The Grammy Award-winning musical group, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will perform at 8 p.m. April 13 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Limon Dance Company to Perform at UB on April 11
    3/7/03
    The UB Center for the Arts will conclude its 2002/2003 KeyBank Dance Series with a performance by the Limon Dance Company at 8 p.m. April 11 in the Mainstage Theatre of the center on the North Campus.
  • UB Shares in Largest Award in History of Oishei Foundation
    3/6/03
    The John R. Oishei Foundation today announced grants totaling $9 million to the three partners in the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex. The University at Buffalo, which previously received $1,542,000 for the recruitment, salaries and research of top-level scientists at the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, will receive an additional $2 million for those purposes. Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute each will receive $3.5 million for buildings being constructed as part of the complex.
  • New GIS Tool Helps Foresters Curb Damage from Wildfires and Target Conservation Cost-Effectively
    3/4/03
    A robust, new geographic information systems (GIS) software tool developed by a University at Buffalo geographer is helping the U.S. Forest Service to more quickly and accurately assess and contain the devastation wrought by forest fires.
  • UB School of Management Names Undergraduate Mezzanine in New Alfiero Center to Honor Alumna for $75,000 Gift
    3/3/03
    The undergraduate mezzanine in the new Alfiero Center to be built at the University at Buffalo School of Management will be named in honor of MarySue French, of Strongsville, Ohio, who has made a gift of $75,000 to the school.
  • Adhesive Bond Used on Columbia Space Shuttle Known to be Less Heat Resistant, Says UB Materials Engineer
    3/3/03
    The adhesive-bonding method used to secure heat-resistant ceramic tiles to the body of the Space Shuttle Columbia is known for its inability to withstand high temperatures, and should not be used exclusively in the construction of new space shuttles, according to a materials engineer at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Chemist Traces the Environmental Fate of Antibiotics Used with Livestock from Barnyards to Crop Fields
    3/3/03
    Research at the University at Buffalo is focusing on the residues of antibiotics used to promote growth in livestock and to treat their diseases that end up in the environment and could potentially alter microbial ecosystems in humans and animals, as well as in the environment.
  • UB Creates "Population Health Observatory" to Conduct Regional Bioterrorism Surveillance, Document Health Trends
    2/28/03
    The University at Buffalo is establishing one of the first local health surveillance systems in the United States, which aims to do for the eight counties comprising Western New York what state health departments do statewide and the Centers for Disease Control does for the nation.
  • Jazz Singer, Pianist Peter Cincotti to perform April 4 in CFA
    2/27/03
    The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present a performance by Peter Cincotti at 8 p.m. April 4 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The concert is co-sponsored by WBFO-FM.
  • UB Researchers, Versed in Sanskrit and Computer Science, Develop Tools to Bridge the Digital Divide
    2/25/03
    Funded by the National Science Foundation, University at Buffalo researchers are taking a major step toward boosting online access to documents written in ancient Sanskrit, modern Hindi and dozens of Indian and South Asian languages that are based on the beautiful, intricate symbols of the Devanagari script.