News Releases

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

  • Film Series at UB to Focus on Women's Struggles for Liberation
    2/11/03
    "My Country is the World: Films by Women" -- The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender's (IREWG) 7th International Women's Film Festival -- will debut Feb. 13 with a screening of the Iranian film "Two Women" at 7 p.m. in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St., Buffalo.
  • UB Center for Advanced Technology Awards $2 Million to Fund 11 Industry-University Collaborative Projects
    2/11/03
    The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) is awarding $2 million in funding to support 11 industry-university collaborative projects ranging from the development of a diagnostic medical device to a bioinformatics tool for virtual cloning.
  • Department of Theatre and Dance to present Arthur Kopit's "Chamber Music"
    2/10/03
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Theatre and Dance will present a student production of Arthur Kopit's "Chamber Music" from Feb. 26 to March 2 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The production is sponsored by WBFO 88.7 FM.
  • V-Day Benefit Presentation of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" to be Held in UB Center for the Arts Feb. 18 and 19
    2/10/03
    As part of the V-Day 2003 College Campaign, the ground-breaking, Obie Award-winning "The Vagina Monologues" is coming to the University at Buffalo in the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • University at Buffalo Experts Available to Discuss a War with Iraq
    2/10/03
    Faculty members from the University at Buffalo are available for members of the media covering the political, military, economic and social implications of a U.S. war with Iraq.
  • Multimedia Artist's Work Offers Provocative Critique of Popular Culture
    2/7/03
    It may have been the broken black-and-white television set that was never replaced during her childhood. Perhaps it was the neighborhood spy clubs and intricately kept code books, or the Super 8 film camera purchased for $2 at the Salvation Army that fueled a future filmmaker's imagination. Today, Caroline Koebel, multimedia artist and assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, finds creative impetus in themes that are inherently political, sexual, often racial and almost always concerned with gender and identity.
  • Professor Goes by the Book in Gift to the UB Department of Communication
    2/6/03
    Gerald Goldhaber, associate professor of communication in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics, has donated the royalties of the current and future editions of his textbook "Organizational Communication" to create a discretionary fund for students in the school's Department of Communication.
  • Cameron Baird Foundation Gives $50,000 to UB for Digitization of WBFO Studios
    2/6/03
    The Cameron Baird Foundation has given a $50,000 grant to WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, to be used for the digitization of all station studios.
  • Spring Life Enhancement Workshops at UB Will Address Stress, Social Anxiety, Chronic Insomnia, Smoking
    2/6/03
    Completely stressed out? A nervous wreck in social situations? A chronic insomniac? Smoking like a fiend, despite your attempts to quit? Well, you're luckier than a lot of folks because this spring, the Psychological Services Center at the University at Buffalo will offer four, eight-week Life Enhancement Workshops, facilitated by a team of clinical psychologists, to help you address your problems.
  • For Valentine's Day, Why Not Improve Your Relationship?
    2/5/03
    Forty-five percent of new marriages end in divorce and psychologists say relationship conflict is related directly to poor physical health, depression, parent-child conflict and behavior problems. In February and March, the University at Buffalo Psychological Services Center will offer two three-hour workshops for people currently in a romantic relationship, whether married, partnered, living together or dating seriously. They may attend alone or with their partner.