News Releases

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

  • UB to Open Newly Renovated Ellicott Food Court
    1/9/03
    The Division of Student Affairs and the Faculty Student Association at the University at Buffalo this semester will open the newly renovated Ellicott Food Court in the new atrium in the center of the Ellicott Complex on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Gifted Math Program Seeks Nominations for Fall 2003 Class
    1/9/03
    The Gifted Math Program at the University at Buffalo is accepting nominations of outstanding sixth-grade mathematics students submitted by schools and parents for its Fall 2003 entering class. The nomination deadline is Jan. 17.
  • UB's Sandra Murray Receives National Award for Contributions to Field of Social Psychology
    1/8/03
    The American Psychological Association (APA) has presented Sandra L. Murray, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo, with a 2003 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of social psychology.
  • UB Receives $1 Million Grant to Train WNY Teachers Whose Students Have Limited English Proficiency
    1/8/03
    With a new four-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) has announced it will establish new teacher education programs designed to improve classroom instruction for students in Buffalo and rural Western New York schools who have limited English proficiency (LEP).
  • UB School of Management to Hold Open House for Full-Time MBA Program
    1/8/03
    The University at Buffalo School of Management will hold an open house for its full-time MBA program from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan. 25 in Room 122 of the Jacobs Management Center on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Experts Weigh In on Cloning and Cults
    1/7/03
    Four University at Buffalo faculty members with expertise in cults and the ethical, legal and social implications of human cloning are available to members of the media covering claims made by Clonaid and the controversy surrounding human cloning.
  • Driving in Bad Weather: UB Engineers Developing Technologies to Assist Drivers
    1/6/03
    To prevent your car from spinning out on an icy roadway, is it better to turn the steering wheel toward or away from the direction of a skid? Mechanical engineers from the University at Buffalo -- using a virtual-reality driving simulator and human subjects -- are addressing this annual winter-weather question and are developing new technologies that one day may help drivers proceed safely in bad weather.
  • Regents Chancellor Robert Bennett Will Co-Teach UB Course on Public Schools Policy-Making
    1/6/03
    Robert Bennett, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, will co-teach a three-credit graduate course at the University at Buffalo during the spring semester that will address many issues of significance to urban school systems.
  • Clonaid Cult Derived from Flying-Saucer Cults Originating in the 1970s and '80s, Says UB Expert
    1/3/03
    The Raelians -- the cult behind Clonaid, the company claiming to have cloned a human being -- are a remnant of the "flying-saucer cults" that originated in the 1970s and '80s, according to cult expert Phillips Stevens, Jr., an associate professor of anthropology at the University at Buffalo.
  • Ronald J. Krul Named Assistant Dean for Continuing Education in UB School of Social Work
    1/3/03
    Ronald J. Krul has been named assistant dean for continuing education in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.