News Releases

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

  • Improved HIV Pharmacotherapy in Zimbabwe Is Goal of Collaboration Between UB and University of Zimbabwe
    4/12/02
    Improving treatment of patients with HIV in Zimbabwe and potentially other developing nations by adapting approaches that have been successful in the U.S. is the goal of a new collaborative effort between the University at Buffalo and the University of Zimbabwe.
  • Former Praxair CEO and Chair Lichtenberger Gives $250,000 to UB School of Management
    4/11/02
    H. William Lichtenberger, former chairman and CEO of the industrial-gases company Praxair, Inc., has donated $250,000 to the University at Buffalo School of Management for the naming of a lecture hall in the school's new Alfiero Center.
  • Book by Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Dennis Populated by "Practical Gods" Who Speak to Us Daily
    4/11/02
    Carl Dennis' "Practical Gods," for which he was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is full of them.
  • Capaldi to Address Women Leaders in Higher Education
    4/11/02
    Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will give the keynote address at the annual conference of the Western New York Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education, to be held April 26 in the Center for Tomorrow on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Sets Earth Day Environmental Science Colloquium
    4/11/02
    Ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber and Germaine Buck, chief of the Epidemiology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will be the keynote speakers at the Earth Day Environmental Science Colloquium, to be held April 19 in the atrium and Screening Room of the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Homeless Urban Children in Developing Countries Found to Be Healthier Than Expected
    4/10/02
    The rapid increase in the number of homeless children in cities in the developing world is a matter of grave concern, particularly with regard to their physical well-being. A study by a University at Buffalo researcher, however, supports earlier findings that although fraught with danger and poverty, the conditions under which these children live are more optimal for survival than originally thought.
  • UB Conference Focusing on the Experiences of Today's African-American Male to be Held April 12-14
    4/9/02
    The University at Buffalo Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy will sponsor a conference examining the African-American male experience from the perspective of popular culture, crime and punishment, religion, work, sexuality and parenting.
  • Online Music Sharing Diminishes 'Superstar Phenomenon' in the Music Industry, Finds Study of Billboard Top 200
    4/9/02
    MP3 downloading won't kill the music industry, but it may knock off a few pop superstars, according to a new study on the economics of digital music sharing. Noting that digital music sharing favors new artists and groups, the researchrs suggest that the music industry consider online music-sharing services as a way to increase profits and counter online music piracy.
  • Judge Hugh B. Scott to be Honored by Buffalo Law Review
    4/8/02
    The editorial board of the Buffalo Law Review at the University at Buffalo Law School will honor U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott, a 1974 graduate of the school, at the 13th annual Law Review Dinner.
  • UB's Carl Dennis Named Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
    4/8/02
    Carl Dennis, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, today was named recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his eighth collection of poems, "Practical Gods" (Penguin Books).