News Releases

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

  • UB to Host Meeting of Physical Anthropologists in April
    1/11/02
    Primate evolution, Neanderthal life and the interpretation of human bone will be among the enormous array of topics to be covered April 9-13 when the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), the largest association of physical anthropologists in the world, meets in Buffalo for the organization's 71st annual conference.
  • Publication by UB Professor and Alumnus Receives National Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals
    1/11/02
    CR: The New Centennial Review, the theoretically inflected interdisciplinary journal of the Americas, has received the Council of Editors of Learned Journals' (CELJ) Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement for 2001.
  • Using Simulations and Remote Sensing, UB Geologists Create High-Tech Hazard Maps to Mitigate Volcanic Risk
    1/10/02
    University at Buffalo volcanologists, leaders worldwide in using advanced technologies to safeguard populations from dangerous geologic events, are pioneering the automation of the time-consuming and expensive process of developing volcanic hazard maps.
  • "Blue Angel," "Some Like It Hot" and "Dr. Strangelove" Among Films Featured in "Buffalo Film Series"
    1/10/02
    Josef von Sternberg's classic "Blue Angel" (1930), the film that made Marlene Dietrich an international star, will be among the highlights of the Spring 2002 edition of the "Buffalo Film Seminars: Conversations about Great Films with Bruce Jackson & Diane Christian."
  • Holm Named Senior Vice Provost at UB
    1/10/02
    Bruce A. Holm, Ph.D., has been named a senior vice provost at the University at Buffalo and will serve as the university's point person on many of its high-technology/bio-technology projects.
  • Novel Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Flows Provide Insight Into Physics of Internal Combustion
    1/9/02
    Using a computational method called direct numerical simulation, researchers at the University at Buffalo have performed simulations of turbulent reacting flows that are the closest to date to a true model of the physics of chemically reacting turbulent flows.
  • UB Historian's Book Named One of Year's Best by Major Publications, American Historical Association
    1/8/02
    An award-winning book by University at Buffalo historian Jorge Canizares-Esguerra examining the emerging identities that shaped the Western hemisphere has been cited as one of the best books of the year by three important international publications and has received two prestigious national awards from the American Historical Association (AHA).
  • Philadanco Dance Company to Perform Feb. 9 in Center for the Arts
    1/7/02
    The UB Center for the Arts will continue the 2001-02 KeyBank Dance Series with a performance by Philadanco on Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
  • 'Network New York' Opens Doors for UB Business Students in Tight Job Market
    1/7/02
    To serve the career needs of its students in a poor national job market, the University at Buffalo School of Management has organized a networking session with more than 30 well-placed UB alumni employed in New York City for 75 of its MBA and business-administration students on Jan. 10.
  • System Will Revolutionize Instruction of Architects When It Comes to Structural Analysis, Building Design
    1/4/02
    An interdisciplinary team of University at Buffalo architects and engineers is working to revolutionize the instruction that architecture students receive when it comes to structural analysis and building technology.