News Releases

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

  • UB Faculty Members Receive SUNY Research Recognition Awards
    10/26/02
    Three faculty members at the University at Buffalo have received the Chancellor's Research Recognition Award for 2002 for being among leading State University of New York researchers in science, medicine and engineering.
  • UB Professor Emeritus and His Wife Establish Fund for Scholarships in Graduate School of Education
    10/26/02
    A retired professor in the Graduate School of Education and his wife have established a fund to benefit students interested in elementary mathematics instruction.
  • Greiner to Address Voting Faculty on Nov. 7
    10/26/02
    President William R. Greiner will address members of the voting faculty from 4-6 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • New Computer Complex to Facilitate Research in Informatics
    10/26/02
    A new instructional-technology laboratory complex developed to serve the University at Buffalo School of Informatics is expected to enhance greatly research in neural networking, data representation, decision theory, digital libraries and social networks.
  • UB Grads Win National Award for Project to Improve Water-Supply System at Letchworth State Park
    10/26/02
    A team of environmental-engineering graduates from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo won first place at a student-design competition held by the Water Environment Federation.
  • NPR's "Fresh Air" Host Terry Gross to Speak Nov. 15 at UB
    10/24/02
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Terry Gross at 8 p.m. on Nov. 15 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • New Theories of Type 2 Diabetes as an Inflammatory, Autoimmune Disease to be Investigated in Major Study
    10/24/02
    A study centering on two emerging theories on the causes of diabetes in adults will be conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo over the next three years, funded by a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
  • UB Molecular Biochemist Uses Laser Beam as "Tweezers" While Film Captures DNA in the Process of Unwinding
    10/24/02
    Piero Bianco produces movies. Not films that chronicle the human condition, a la Hollywood. His subject is human biology at its most basic -- the translocation and unwinding of DNA by a DNA motor protein. Bianco is the first to record on videotape in real time a molecule of a particular DNA motor protein in the process of "unzipping" a double strand of bacterial DNA.
  • Panasci Entrepreneurship Competition Offers $40,000 in Start-Up Funding to UB Students, Recent Alumni
    10/24/02
    The University at Buffalo School of Management is accepting applications for UB's annual Panasci Entrepreneurial Competition, which awards $40,000 in seed capital to UB students and recent alumni who want to start their own business in Western New York.
  • Korean Choreographer, Dancer to be in Residence at UB in November
    10/23/02
    Korean choreographer and dancer In-Young Sohn will be in residence at the University at Buffalo from Nov. 4-13, 2002. Her residency and a performance by the artist will be sponsored by the UB Department of Theatre and Dance, Asian Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Korea Foundation, the Dae-Han Foundation and the Center for the Arts.