News Releases

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

  • 22 University at Buffalo Inventors Honored by SUNY
    5/23/02
    Twenty-two inventors affiliated with the University at Buffalo have been recognized by the State University of New York as being among the outstanding inventors within the SUNY system.
  • Internships Still the Best Route to Full-Time Employment, Say University at Buffalo Career Advisors
    5/22/02
    Internships are serious business this summer for students hoping to improve their chances in a sluggish national job market, according to career advisors from the University at Buffalo.
  • Five UB Faculty Members Receive Student Association Plesur Awards Recognizing Quality of Teaching
    5/22/02
    The undergraduate Student Association (SA) at the University at Buffalo has recognized five faculty members for their commitment to students and quality of teaching by awarding them the 2002 Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • Paroski Elected President of UB Alumni Association
    5/22/02
    Margaret W. Paroski of Buffalo, a 1980 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to serve a one-year term as president of the UB Alumni Association.
  • Drinking Wine, Particularly White Wine, May Help Keep Lungs Healthy, UB Study Finds
    5/20/02
    Drinking wine appears to be good for the lungs, a University at Buffalo study has shown, and in this case, the primary credit goes to white wine rather than red.
  • Study to Consider Alcohol's Role in Date Rape
    5/17/02
    How alcohol intake affects women's responses to sexual aggression is the focus of a new study funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism being conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Additions (RIA).
  • Meridian Arts Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble to Perform at June in Buffalo Festival for Emerging Composers
    5/17/02
    "Music & Text" -- whether as impetus, source, or language -- will be the theme of June in Buffalo, the annual festival and conference dedicated to emerging composers, being held June 3-8 in Slee and Baird halls, North Campus.
  • UB Professor, Graduate Students Study North America's Most Active Volcano On Site in Mexico
    5/17/02
    A geology professor at the University at Buffalo recently took graduate students enrolled in his advanced field methods class to western Mexico to study Colima -- the most active volcano in North America -- and its eruptive patterns, and to learn from residents what it's like to live beneath "el Volcan de Fuego," or "volcano of fire," as Colima is known.
  • Researchers Develop Semiconducting Material that has the Right Stuff to Develop Spintronic Devices
    5/16/02
    A team of researchers led by University at Buffalo physicists reported today that they have created semiconducting materials that exhibit the key properties that are essential to the development of semiconductor spintronic devices.
  • Family Involvement Key to Helping Children Lose Weight and Keep It Off, Says UB Childhood-Obesity Researcher
    5/16/02
    There is hope for parents concerned about their children's health in the wake of a recent Center for Disease Control study showing a disturbing increase in childhood obesity and diseases associated with childhood obesity.