News Releases

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

  • MBA Graduate Wins Annual Panasci Entrepreneurial Contest
    1/30/02
    JoAnn Johnson, a 2002 graduate of the University at Buffalo's part-time MBA program, won the $25,000 first-place prize in UB's second annual Panasci Entrepreneurial Competition, which awards seed money to UB students and recent alumni who devise and present the best plans for launch of a viable new business in Western New York.
  • Nation's First Degree with Focus in Pharmacometrics, One of Drug Industry's Highest-Paying Fields, Offered at UB
    1/30/02
    The nation's first master's degree program in pharmaceutics with a focus in pharmacometrics, a new field that fuses pharmacologic studies with computational and statistical methods of data analysis, has been developed at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • Five Former Athletes, Four Others to be Inducted into UB Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 22
    1/30/02
    Two women who helped the University at Buffalo gain conference supremacy in track and field and cross country, one of the finest tennis players in school history, a defensive standout on the football field in the mid-80s and a pitcher who established 14 softball records will be inducted into the University at Buffalo Athletic Hall of Fame during a dinner and induction ceremony on Feb. 22.
  • "Berlin to Broadway" to Feature Music of Composer Kurt Weill
    1/29/02
    The UB Department of Theatre and Dance will present "Berlin to Broadway," Feb. 20-24 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus. Performance times will be 8 p.m. Feb. 20-22; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 23, and 2 p.m. Feb. 24.
  • UB to Present Lecture Series Addressing September 11
    1/29/02
    A special lecture series offering "Perspectives on September 11th and its Aftermath" will be presented this spring by the Council on International Studies and Programs and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Education at the University at Buffalo.
  • Department of Theatre and Dance to Present "American Airborne"
    1/29/02
    The UB Department of Theatre and Dance will present a faculty workshop production of "American Airborne" Feb. 7-10 in the Rehearsal Workshop, Room B83, in the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus. Performance times will be 8 p.m. Feb. 7-8, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 9 and 2 p.m. Feb. 10.
  • Online Auctions with Vendors Bidding on Contracts Among E-Commerce Applications Students Propose for Amherst
    1/25/02
    The Town of Amherst could become the first municipality in Western New York -- and one of the few in the country -- to offer major government services online, thanks to assistance from students in the University at Buffalo's Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
  • On a Spot Smaller Than a Dime, UB Chemists Print Sensors That May Detect Hundreds of Chemicals at Once
    1/25/02
    By borrowing a page from the genomics revolution, University at Buffalo chemists have taken a major step toward placing hundreds, and possibly even thousands, of reusable chemical sensors in an area smaller than a dime.
  • Zagora Heads Human Resource Services at UB
    1/25/02
    Paula E. Zagora has been appointed assistant vice president for human resource services at the University at Buffalo.
  • Panasci Entrepreneurship Contest Enters Final Round
    1/25/02
    Five teams of University at Buffalo students and alumni will complete for $40,000 in prizes during the final round of the Panasci Entrepreneurship Contest on Jan. 28.