News Releases

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

  • UB Nursing Researcher Studies Why Few People Take Charge of Their End-of-Life Medical Decisions
    11/30/01
    Why are so many people willing to relegate important medical decisions to strangers? That is the question a University at Buffalo nurse-anthropologist is attempting to answer in a study on medical advance directives funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
  • 2 UB Nursing Faculty Members Named Fellows By American Academy of Nursing
    11/30/01
    Jean D. Brown Ph.D., associate professor, and Patricia R. McCartney, Ph.D., clinical professor, both in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, were among the 68 new fellows inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Nursing for 2001 at the academy's annual meeting last month in Washington.
  • Steven Diver Awarded NSF Young Investigator Award
    11/28/01
    Steven T. Diver, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has received a Young Investigator Award of $510,000 from the National Science Foundation to synthesize stable carbenes, a type of molecule that has unique chemical properties and that can be used to catalyze chemical reactions.
  • UB Helps 3 Companies Enhance Manufacturing Systems
    11/26/01
    The Carbide/Graphite Group of Niagara Falls, FMC Corp. of Buffalo and Avery Denison of Buffalo have partnered with the University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) to enhance their manufacturing systems through the help of Lean Manufacturing Kaizen Training Events.
  • Benefit Concert by Jim Brickman to Aid Food Bank of Western New York
    11/21/01
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present a concert to benefit the Food Bank of Western New York featuring musician Jim Brickman. Co-presented by WJYE 96.1 FM, the concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • A Sign of the Times -- Reference Assistance Now Provided Online by "Instant Librarians"
    11/21/01
    University at Buffalo librarians are offering real-time, online reference assistance to students, some as far away as China, using AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM) in the popular chat room format.
  • UB Institutes Changes in IRB Structure
    11/21/01
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo has instituted changes in the structure of its Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) that are designed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the system responsible for protecting human volunteers in research projects conducted at the university.
  • Regional Community Policing Center to Hold Landlord-Tenant Forum
    11/21/01
    The second annual community forum presented by the Regional Community Policing Center, a project of the University at Buffalo's University Community Initiative, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Nov. 29 in Allen Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.
  • U.S. in Danger of Repressing Human Rights in Ways for Which It Has Criticized Other Countries
    11/21/01
    In its efforts to prevent a repeat of the tragic events of Sept. 11, the United State is moving perilously close to creating in our own nation a police state where human rights are denied, according to a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School who is a human rights expert.
  • UB Program Teaches School Administrators to Collaborate for Greater Effectiveness, Improved School Performance
    11/20/01
    Improved administrative leadership and improvements in schools' performance are the goals of an innovative collaborative effort involving the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) and 13 Western New York school districts.