News Releases

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

  • Hornsby to perform in CFA
    9/8/02
    Grammy Award-winning artist Bruce Hornsby and his band, featuring Steve Kimock, with special guest The Slip Sunday, will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
  • Sample to discuss book on Sept. 23
    9/8/02
    Former UB President Steven B. Sample will return to campus on Sept. 23 to discuss his book, "The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership."
  • Bush Was Transformed Into a Charismatic Leader After 9/11, UB Study of His Speeches, Resulting Media Coverage Shows
    9/6/02
    A study by a University at Buffalo professor shows that President Bush's rhetoric and word usage became much more charismatic after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as did the language used by the news media to describe and depict his leadership after the terrorist attacks.
  • Flag that Flew Over Ground Zero to be Presented by UB Alumnus Who is Member of NYC Fire Department
    9/6/02
    A UB alumnus who worked at Ground Zero during the first few weeks after the Sept. 11 tragedy will present an American flag that flew over the site to UB President William R. Greiner during the university's Annual Newman Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, to be held on Sunday.
  • Nazi Destruction of Libraries to be Subject of Lecture
    9/5/02
    "The Nazi Destruction of Jewish Archives and Libraries in Cracow During World War II" will be the title of a free lecture by Marek Sroka to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in the University Archives, Room 420 Capen Hall on the North Campus.
  • Julia Butterfly Hill to Speak as Part of UB "Ecofest"
    9/5/02
    Julia Butterfly Hill, the environmental activist who lived for more than two years in the canopy of a 1,000-year-old redwood tree in California to save it from loggers, will lecture at the University at Buffalo on Oct. 3 as part of a three-day campus "Ecofest."
  • Government, Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Funding UB's Rise to Prominence in Bioinformatics and Supercomputing
    9/3/02
    The Dell supercomputer cluster unveiled today at the University at Buffalo is the result of a unique partnership between corporate, government and non-profit institutions that is establishing UB and the Buffalo Niagara region as a worldwide leader in supercomputing and bioinformatics.
  • Spin-Off Studies from Historic Women's Health Initiative Address Myriad Diverse Conditions in Men and Women
    9/3/02
    In the "one-thing-leads-to-another" nature of scientific research, hundreds of studies are underway at the University at Buffalo and other clinical sites of the Women's Health Initiative, spawned in whole or part by the 12-year, $625 million initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health.
  • More Than 2,000 Dell Servers to be Used for Advanced Research at UB
    9/3/02
    Dell and the University at Buffalo today announced one of the largest clusters of Linux servers ever at a U.S. educational institution.
  • Therex LLC, Formed by UB Inventors, to Focus on Drugs to Combat Infections, Inflammatory Diseases
    9/3/02
    The UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach has licensed to Therex LLC, a company formed by three UB faculty members, patents and technologies based on their prior research with salicylanilide chemical compounds.