News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Researcher Debunks "Myth" that Asians Are, by Nature, More Academically Successful than Other Minorities
    12/4/02
    Guofang Li, Ph.D., is a Chinese native, academic researcher and assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education. She seems the very model of the stereotypical Asian immigrant -- whom she describes as "intelligent, industrious, enduring, obedient, highly successful and joyfully initiated into North American life and English literacy." In reality, Li is out to dispel that stereotype and in study after study she has debunked the popular idea that Asian students are, by nature, better equipped to succeed academically than other minority groups.
  • How Children Perceive Urban Environments Is Focus of First Children's Geography Project
    11/27/02
    University at Buffalo geographers are embarking on a new project designed to find out how school-aged children relate to urban spaces, to create the first "children's geography of the inner city."
  • Grant from Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Assists UB in Study of Prostate Cancer
    11/27/02
    The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has awarded a $7,500 grant for a study of prostate cancer to the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  • AMBP Tech Corp. Receives $1.1 Million Grant
    11/27/02
    AMBP Tech Corp., a UB spin-off company, has received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency.
  • Too Fat to Fight? Obesity Becomes National Security Issue, Weight Would Disqualify Many Potential Military Recruits
    11/27/02
    If the U.S. military needed to recruit substantial numbers of young men and women into their forces quickly, they would face a vexing obstacle: the chubby American. Moreover, military weight limits for women are stricter than for men in all of the forces, making it harder for women to get into the military and if they get in, to stay within weight limits without jeopardizing their health, according to a study co-authored by a University at Buffalo researcher.