News Releases

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

  • UB Sets Earth Day Environmental Science Colloquium
    4/11/02
    Ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber and Germaine Buck, chief of the Epidemiology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will be the keynote speakers at the Earth Day Environmental Science Colloquium, to be held April 19 in the atrium and Screening Room of the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Homeless Urban Children in Developing Countries Found to Be Healthier Than Expected
    4/10/02
    The rapid increase in the number of homeless children in cities in the developing world is a matter of grave concern, particularly with regard to their physical well-being. A study by a University at Buffalo researcher, however, supports earlier findings that although fraught with danger and poverty, the conditions under which these children live are more optimal for survival than originally thought.
  • UB Conference Focusing on the Experiences of Today's African-American Male to be Held April 12-14
    4/9/02
    The University at Buffalo Law School's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy will sponsor a conference examining the African-American male experience from the perspective of popular culture, crime and punishment, religion, work, sexuality and parenting.
  • Online Music Sharing Diminishes 'Superstar Phenomenon' in the Music Industry, Finds Study of Billboard Top 200
    4/9/02
    MP3 downloading won't kill the music industry, but it may knock off a few pop superstars, according to a new study on the economics of digital music sharing. Noting that digital music sharing favors new artists and groups, the researchrs suggest that the music industry consider online music-sharing services as a way to increase profits and counter online music piracy.
  • Judge Hugh B. Scott to be Honored by Buffalo Law Review
    4/8/02
    The editorial board of the Buffalo Law Review at the University at Buffalo Law School will honor U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott, a 1974 graduate of the school, at the 13th annual Law Review Dinner.
  • UB's Carl Dennis Named Winner of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
    4/8/02
    Carl Dennis, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, today was named recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his eighth collection of poems, "Practical Gods" (Penguin Books).
  • Allaire Named Assistant Dean, Director of Career Resource Center at UB School of Management
    4/5/02
    Paul C. Allaire of Grand Island has been named assistant dean and director of the Career Resource Center (CRC) in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Courtney Walsh Named Assistant Dean, Director of UB Center for Executive Development
    4/5/02
    Courtney J. Walsh has been promoted to assistant dean and director of the newly named Center for Executive Development in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department
    4/5/02
    The Department of Art History in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will present a lecture by Roland Reisley, an expert on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonian" architecture style, on April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 25 Nottingham Road.
  • All-Female Team Led by UB Biologist to Live Under the Ocean to Study Changes Occurring on Coral Reefs
    4/5/02
    A University at Buffalo scientist is leading an all-female research team that will be living and working deep under the surface of the ocean and studying the parentage of a coral reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla.