News Releases

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

  • UB Uses Instant Messaging to Recruit Prospective Students
    6/26/01
    Recognizing that for many teens email has become passé, the University at Buffalo is among the first universities in the country to utilize instant messaging (IM) -- the preferred method of online communication of American teens -- to communicate with prospective students.
  • Buffalo to be Focus of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday"
    6/25/01
    National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday" will focus on Buffalo during its two-hour broadcast on July 1. NPR will take a special look at the history, evolution and future of "The City of Light" in conjunction with Buffalo's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
  • UB to Assume Management of Technology Incubator
    6/22/01
    Beginning July 1, the University at Buffalo will assume full responsibility for management of its UB Technology Incubator facility, located at 1576 Sweet Home Road in Amherst. Since opening in 1988, the incubator has been managed by the Western New York Technology Development Center (TDC).
  • International Businessman Funds Engineering Scholarship
    6/19/01
    Joe Y. Chuang of Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., a University at Buffalo alumnus and international businessman has pledged $30,000 to establish a scholarship fund for undergraduate students in UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
  • University at Buffalo, Michigan State University "Reinvent" a Major Journal of the Americas
    6/19/01
    The benefits to an educational institution of editorial involvement with a major scholarly journal are intangible and, in any case, hard to calculate. Nevertheless, David E. Johnson, assistant professor of comparative literature in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, and his colleague Scott Michaelsen, associate professor of English at Michigan State University, have taken on the co-editorship and concurrent "reinvention" of just such a journal -- CR: The New Centennial Review.
  • Life Sentence Would Have Been Tougher on McVeigh than Death by Legal Injection, UB Law Professor Contends
    6/14/01
    A far worse and more appropriate punishment than execution for Timothy J. McVeigh, who admitted his guilt in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, would have been a life sentence without possibility of parole, says Charles Carr, an adjunct associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School.
  • Making Information Available to Multicultural Populations Poses a Dramatic Challenge to Today's Librarians
    6/13/01
    Effective strategies for using information technology to serve multicultural populations will be the focus of a conference for librarians, "Technology, Globalization and Multicultural Services," to be held Aug. 14-16 in the University Inn and Conference Center.
  • Drinking Alcohol Daily and Without Meals Is Associated with Increased Risk of Hypertension, UB Study Finds
    6/13/01
    If you are a drinker, when and in what situations you drink may affect your blood pressure, findings of a University at Buffalo study presented at the Society for Epidemiology Research have shown.
  • New Wireless Architecture Would Extend Cell-Phone Coverage to Where It Is Needed Most
    6/12/01
    A new architecture for next-generation wireless systems for cellular phones proposed by University at Buffalo researchers could provide an efficient and flexible way to extend outdoor coverage, as well as provide indoor coverage, without building additional cellular phone towers.
  • Dietary Study Finds Marijuana Users Have Normal Nutritional Status, Risky Lifestyle Habits
    6/11/01
    Smoking marijuana and "the munchies" go together like ham and eggs in anecdotal popular culture. But how do marijuana users fare nutritionally in their everyday lives? Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), analyzed by University at Buffalo researchers, paint a mixed nutritional picture.