News Releases

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

  • Courtney Walsh Named Assistant Dean, Director of UB Center for Executive Development
    4/5/02
    Courtney J. Walsh has been promoted to assistant dean and director of the newly named Center for Executive Development in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department
    4/5/02
    The Department of Art History in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Roland Reisley, an expert on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonian" architecture style, on April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 25 Nottingham Road.
  • All-Female Team Led by UB Biologist to Live Under the Ocean to Study Changes Occurring on Coral Reefs
    4/5/02
    A University at Buffalo scientist is leading an all-female research team that will be living and working deep under the surface of the ocean and studying the parentage of a coral reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla.
  • Shoes that Think? AT&T Informatics Lecture at UB to Look at the Future Technology Has In Store for Us
    4/5/02
    Michael Hawley believes that your shoes soon will be doing some serious thinking on your behalf. Hawley, Dreyfoos Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of a project called "Things That Think, will deliver the inaugural lecture in the University at Buffalo's AT&T Informatics Lecture Series on April 17 at the University at Buffalo.
  • Burns to Speak as Part of UB Distinguished Speakers Series
    4/4/02
    Filmmaker and historian Ken Burns -- director and executive producer of the highly acclaimed 1990 PBS series "The Civil War" and other distinguished historical films -- will speak at 8 p.m. April 24 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus as part of UB's 15th annual Distinguished Speakers Series.
  • UB Dance-athon to Benefit Gilda's Club
    4/4/02
    The University at Buffalo Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society will hold its first dance-athon from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. April 13-14 in the Student Union on the UB North (Amherst) Campus to benefit Gilda's Club Western New York.
  • "782 Kg." -- UB Seniors Worth Their Weight in Art
    3/29/02
    "782 Kg.," the University at Buffalo Art Department senior thesis exhibition, will take place April 9-25 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Donation from Retired Computer Software Entrepreneur and Wife to Support UB Engineering Undergraduate Labs
    3/29/02
    University at Buffalo alumnus and retired computer software entrepreneur Larry Peckham and his wife, Nancy, have donated $250,000 to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for the continuing development of undergraduate laboratories.
  • Noted Researcher to Speak on Drugs and Genes in the First Gerhard Levy Distinguished Lecture
    3/29/02
    Kathleen Giacomini, a University at Buffalo alumnus and noted national researcher in the field of biopharmaceutical sciences, will be the first speaker in the recently established Gerhard Levy Distinguished Lecture series.
  • Clinton Speech to be Broadcast Live by WBFO 88.7 FM
    3/28/02
    The address by former President William J. Clinton at the University at Buffalo on April 10 will be broadcast live at 3 p.m. by WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo.