News Releases

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

  • Project GRASP Offers Help to Partners of Problem Gamblers
    1/17/02
    Help for the spouses and partners of problem gamblers now is available through Project GRASP, a 10-week treatment and research program conducted by the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • UB College of Arts and Sciences to Present Lecture Series
    1/17/02
    "Purchasing Pleasure: Images of Women in French and American Magazines" will be the topic of the first installment in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences Spring 2002 Lecture Series, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Center for the Arts Screening Room on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB MBA Students Learn to Lead with Laughter
    1/15/02
    MBA students in the University at Buffalo School of Management recently received tips on how to "lead with laughter" from Malcolm Kushner, a national humor consultant and author of "The Light Touch: How to Use Humor for Business Success."
  • UB Leads SUNY Campuses in R&D Expenditures
    1/15/02
    The University at Buffalo ranks among New York State's top colleges and universities -- both public and private -- when it comes to expenditures for research and development, according to the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR).
  • Mitchell Named Chair of UB Department of Geology
    1/11/02
    Charles E. Mitchell, professor in the Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the department.
  • 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.