News Releases

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

  • UB Receives $1 Million from NSF to Fund System to Store Huge Amounts of Computer Data
    12/21/01
    A $1 million National Science Foundation infrastructure award to store, manage and analyze complex scientific data is boosting pioneering research at the University at Buffalo in bioinformatics, geographic information science and other important research areas.
  • UB MBA Graduates Play Important Role in Strategic Growth of Perry's Ice Cream
    12/19/01
    Business isn't always smooth in the ice cream industry. Over the past 20 years, nearly 1,200 companies have closed their doors, leaving just over 400 firms to compete for space in America's freezer. To survive and grow in this competitive market, Perry's Ice Cream Co. of Akron, N.Y., boasts an evolving selection of nearly 100 different flavors -- and a management roster of eight MBAs from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • UB Dental Researchers Collaborate on $5 Million Study to Redefine Temporomandibular Disorder
    12/19/01
    The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine is collaborating with two other major universities on a joint $5 million project to establish valid and reliable TMD criteria clinicians can use in their practices to diagnose and treat these disorders.
  • UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Introduces New Executive Education Breakfast Sessions
    12/19/01
    The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) in the University at Buffalo School of Management is offering a series of executive-education breakfast sessions to be held monthly beginning in January.
  • UB's 400 Dental Students Are Community Ambassadors Promoting Oral Health, Raising Community's 'Dental IQ'
    12/14/01
    Students in the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine are educating the community, from special-needs children to underserved urban and rural schoolchildren to senior citizens, about the importance of maintaining good oral health through a slate of year-round, public-service programs, at least one of which is unique in the U.S.
  • Nursing School Addresses "White European" Nursing Culture
    12/14/01
    Look around any hospital, clinic or doctor's office and most of the nurses you see will not be people of color. This situation does not bode well for the future of nursing or for health care, as the general population becomes more diverse and the need for multicultural understanding more crucial. Providing that understanding is the goal of a new curriculum in the master's-degree program for family nurse practitioners in the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Study to Examine Buffalo Teens' Attitudes Toward Reproductive Health Care
    12/13/01
    Researchers from the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are conducting a study to learn what is preventing teen-age girls in Buffalo -- which has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in New York State and one of the highest in the nation -- from taking advantage of area reproductive health services.
  • Study Finds Strong Association Between Problem Drinking and Gambling, with Risk Increasing 23-Fold
    12/13/01
    Problem drinkers are 23 times more likely to have a gambling problem than individuals who do not have an alcohol problem, according to a study conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • UB Receives Two State Grants to Train Medical, Dental Students in Clinics for Refugees, Underserved Children
    12/13/01
    The University at Buffalo has received two grants totaling nearly $629,000 from New York State to provide culturally appropriate training for its medical and dental students and residents through school- and community-based clinics.
  • UB Sociologist Receives Top Book Award for 2001 in Field of Bigotry and Human Rights
    12/12/01
    Sociologist Lois Weis of Buffalo, professor of comparative education in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has received the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, one of the top awards in the human-rights field.