News Releases

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

  • Tango Buenos Aires Performance Cancelled
    12/10/02
    The performance by Tango Buenos Aires, scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo, has been cancelled due to the company's rescheduling of its national tour.
  • UB Student Association Pledges $25,000 to Newly Established "Random Acts of Kindness Fund"
    12/9/02
    The University at Buffalo undergraduate Student Association (SA) has pledged $25,000 over five years to an endowment fund designed to help undergraduate students who are experiencing financial difficulties stay in school.
  • Air Quality in Buffalo to be Topic of Workshop Sponsored by UB Center for Biosurfaces
    12/9/02
    Toxic mold, bioaerosol contaminants from ship ballast, diesel-fuel exhaust and other threats to air quality in Western New York will be on the agenda on Dec. 10 at "Clean Air, Clean Walls, Clean Water," a workshop to be sponsored by the University at Buffalo Industry University Center for Biosurfaces (IUCB).
  • Panasci Competition Winners to be Eligible to Compete in "Super Bowl of World Business-Plan Competition"
    12/9/02
    The winning team from the annual Panasci Entrepreneurial Competition of the University at Buffalo School of Management now will be eligible to advance to other competitions to compete for as much as $100,000 in start-up capital in which to launch its business.
  • Thomas Named Dean of UB School of Management
    12/9/02
    John M. Thomas, whose efforts have made the University at Buffalo School of Management a leader in international management education, has been named dean of the school.
  • Oishei Foundation Grants Benefit Medical School Research
    12/6/02
    The John R. Oishei Foundation has awarded a total of $600,000 to two research projects in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences focusing on infectious diseases.
  • Scholar, Former Law and Society President to Head UB Law School's Interdisciplinary Baldy Center
    12/6/02
    A distinguished Dartmouth College scholar and former president of the Law and Society Association has been named director of the UB's Baldy Center, an internationally recognized center for interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions.
  • Behavior Disorders of Childhood to be Topic of New Online Course Offered by UB School of Social Work
    12/6/02
    The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo will offer its first online graduate-level course, Behavior Disorders of Childhood (SW 992), beginning with the Spring 2003 semester.
  • Physical Activity Prolongs Life, Even for the Obese, Study of Puerto Rican Men Finds
    12/6/02
    Being inactive is more life-threatening than being overweight or obese, results of one of the first studies to consider body weight and physical activity simultaneously and assess their independent effects on mortality has found.
  • Oishei Foundation Gives $125,000 to Health-Care Coalition
    12/4/02
    The Community Health Network of Western New York (CHN), a health-care coalition that will promote wellness and health education and in which the University at Buffalo Department of Family Medicine is a key player, has received a $125,000 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation.