News Releases

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

  • From Bad to Worse: UB Finance Professor Finds Financial Literacy Drops Further Among U.S. 12th Graders
    4/24/02
    Survey results released yesterday by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics at the University at Buffalo, show that high school seniors know even less about personal finance basics than they did five years ago.
  • Spinal Cord Specialist to Chair UB's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    4/24/02
    Shanker Nesathurai, M.D., interim chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, effective July 1.
  • Anonymous Donor Displays Commitment to UB Scholarship Program with New $800,000 Gift
    4/23/02
    An anonymous donor has given $800,000 to the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Honors Scholars Program, bringing to $7.2 million the donor's total gifts to this program, and reaffirming a true commitment to educating tomorrow's leaders.
  • UB Human Rights Expert Says Le Pen Success in French Election Signifies Emerging Racism, But Europe Can Handle It
    4/23/02
    Jean-Marie Le Pen's electoral success on Sunday in the qualifying race for the French presidential election, which the London Daily Standard referred to as "the awakening of a vampire," will be "dealt with responsibly by European nations," says a human-rights expert from the University at Buffalo.
  • Au Sable Earthquake Points Out Need for Seismic Retrofitting Throughout New York State
    4/23/02
    Though the damage was relatively minor, Saturday's earthquake in Au Sable Falls, N.Y., points out the need for upgrading structures throughout New York State so they are better able to withstand future earthquakes, says an earthquake-engineering researcher at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB "Pup in a Cup" Study Finds Early Nutritional Modification Permanently Programs Metabolism, Predisposes to Obesity
    4/23/02
    Consuming a milk formula high in carbohydrates during the critical early weeks of postnatal life causes permanent changes in pancreatic islets and leads to overproduction of insulin and development of obesity in adulthood, University at Buffalo biochemists, working with rats, have found.
  • Success of Right-Wing Le Pen in French Presidential Race is a Fluke, says UB Historian
    4/23/02
    The showing of right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the April 21 qualifying race for the French presidential election, which has caused an uproar throughout Europe and in the United States, is a fluke, according to a historian at the University at Buffalo.
  • Performance to Showcase Talents of UB's Student Choreographers
    4/22/02
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Theatre and Dance will present a dance concert, Young Choreographers Showcase, April 26-28 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Performance times will be Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
  • Reception at UB to Honor 15 for Inventions
    4/22/02
    Fifteen individuals named on 15 United States patents issued to The Research Foundation of the State of New York in 2001, as well as 64 faculty members who will be recognized for their research achievements, will be honored by the University at Buffalo at a reception from 4-6 p.m. on May 2 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB (North) Amherst Campus.
  • UB, Bioinformatics Representatives to Travel to Capitol Hill as Part of "UB Day in Washington"
    4/22/02
    The past, present and future of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics will be the topic on April 23 as faculty members, staff members and administrators from the University at Buffalo, as well as center partners and representatives of the Buffalo business community, travel to Capitol Hill as part of UB Day in Washington.