News Releases

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

  • UB, Community Partners Receive $1.1 Million to Study Asthma, Lupus in Two Buffalo Neighborhoods
    11/19/01
    University at Buffalo researchers have received a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to assess environmental pollutants and their relationship to the prevalence of autoimmune disease, particularly lupus, and asthma in two Buffalo neighborhoods.
  • Bequest Pledge to UB School of Social Work to Provide Scholarships, Help in the Study of Aging
    11/15/01
    Longtime supporters of the University at Buffalo, Bernard and Sharon Morton have made a $100,000 bequest pledge to the School of Social Work for scholarships to help graduate students who want to specialize in the field of aging and gerontology.
  • UB "Weekend School" Teaches Chinese Language and Culture to Adopted Chinese Children
    11/15/01
    Chinese-born children adopted by American parents and living in the Buffalo area now can learn about their native culture and language at a weekend school sponsored by the University at Buffalo World Languages Institute (WLI), a unit of its Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
  • New Surgical Center to Use "Miniature Access" to Address Problems in Pediatric Patients
    11/13/01
    Children's Hospital of Buffalo and the University at Buffalo are taking the lead internationally in pediatric surgery with the opening of a $1.5 million Miniature Access Surgical Center (MASC) believed to be the most sophisticated of its kind in the world.
  • Award-Winning Paper Ties Failure of Neighborhood Revitalization Movement to Racist Policies, Practices
    11/13/01
    A paper by two University at Buffalo professors proposing a new approach to community revitalization has received the 2001 award for Best Action Research Paper on Housing and Community Development from the Fannie Mae Foundation and Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
  • Sloan Foundation Funds Development of Three New Professional Master's Degree Programs at UB
    11/13/01
    In recognition of its strengths in bioinformatics and related areas, the University at Buffalo has been awarded a major grant to develop professional master's degrees in disciplines closely related to bioinformatics by the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  • UB Researchers Developing Automated Systems for Improving Post-Disaster Emergency Response
    11/12/01
    The science of efficiently organizing and interpreting massive amounts of information -- a relatively new field called information fusion that originated from military applications -- is for the first time being applied to manmade and natural disasters by researchers at the University at Buffalo.
  • Ritalin May Cause Long-Lasting Changes in Brain-Cell Function, UB Researchers Find
    11/11/01
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo have shown that the drug methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin, which physicians have considered to have only short-term effects, appears to initiate changes in brain function that remain after the therapeutic effects have dissipated.
  • Quinan Receives Historical Society's Augspurger Award
    11/8/01
    Jack Quinan, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, recently received prestigious Owen B. Augspurger Award for 2001 from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
  • "Asia at Noon" Series Will Consider Marxist and Revisionist Views of Chinese History
    11/8/01
    "Asia at Noon," the University at Buffalo brown-bag series of lectures and discussions that looks at research on Asia, will present two programs this month that consider China today from historical and economic perspectives.