News Releases

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

  • Great Lakes a Summer Classroom for Students From UB, Buffalo State and Other Colleges
    6/18/02
    The Great Lakes and its tributaries are a classroom for 10 students enrolled in the Great Lakes Summer Institute being hosted this month through June 25 by the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College. Working alongside researchers from UB's Great Lakes Program and the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State, the students are testing water quality in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and in the Buffalo and Niagara rivers.
  • UB to Offer Collaborative Graduate Program in Law and Applied Economics
    6/18/02
    The University at Buffalo will offer a graduate level program in law and applied economics, a collaborative effort between the UB Law School and the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning with the Fall 2002 semester.
  • Eating High-Fat Meal Raises Blood's Proinflammatory Factors; Vitamins E and C Counter that Response
    6/16/02
    In a series of studies designed to define the role of dietary macronutrients in the initiation of arterial inflammation that predisposes a person to atherosclerosis, University at Buffalo researchers have found that a high intake of glucose, or eating a high-fat, high-calorie fast-food meal causes an increase in the blood's inflammatory components.
  • Insulin Sensitizer Has Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Diabetics
    6/15/02
    A drug used widely as an insulin sensitizer appears also to have a significant anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics, a property that could make it useful in helping to prevent heart disease in these patients, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has found.
  • "Led by Language" Is First Full-Length Study of Noted American Poet and UB Professor Susan Howe
    6/14/02
    "Led by Language" by Rachel Tzvia Back has been called a "groundbreaking study" of the enigmatic experimental American poet Susan Howe, professor of English at the University at Buffalo. Published recently by the University of Alabama Press as part of its Modern and Contemporary Poetry Series, this is the first full-length study of Howe, who is known for having changed several literary genres.
  • Cyberspace - Land of Cyber Cowboys and Women Outlaws
    6/14/02
    Contrary to its revolutionary promise as a gender-free zone, cyberculture, women cyberspace pioneers argue, reproduces the power dynamics of sexist and racist practices and has a mythology that perpetuates inequality. They speak their minds in "Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture" (MIT Press, 2002), a groundbreaking collection of theoretical and fictional writing co-edited by UB librarian Austin Booth.
  • Massive "Finnegans Wake" Project Elucidating Notoriously Difficult Text
    6/13/02
    The goal of the massive international project being coordinated at the University at Buffalo is no less than to produce a critical investigation of a major author's creative processes unparalleled in the history of literary scholarship. It involves the annotation, cross-referencing and publication in print and on DVD of the content of the 60 handwritten notebooks assembled by James Joyce and scores of assistants during the 16 years it took the author to write his masterwork, "Finnegans Wake."
  • UB Dental School to Offer Free Oral Cancer Screening
    6/11/02
    The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will offer free oral cancer screening from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 22 in Squire Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • Study of Dust in Ice Cores Shows Volcanic Eruptions Interfere with the Effect of Sunspots on Global Climate
    6/11/02
    University at Buffalo scientists working with ice cores have solved a mystery surrounding sunspots and their effect on climate that has puzzled scientists since they began studying the phenomenon.
  • UB Pharmacy Students Honored at Commencement
    6/11/02
    Twenty graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences received 36 awards during the school's recent commencement ceremony.