News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • UB Conducts Second Summer Institute for African Educators
    6/11/01
    For the second consecutive year, the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University at Buffalo is conducting a summer institute for educators from sub-Saharan countries designed to strengthen English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) programs in secondary schools in the participants' home countries.
  • Nutrition, Exercise to be Topic of New Mini-Med Session
    6/11/01
    Nutrition, dietary supplements and exercise programs that help restore and improve cardiac and physical functioning will be the topics of a new University at Buffalo Mini-Medical School course to be taught July 17 through Aug. 7 at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Recognizes Architecture Students
    6/11/01
    Students in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo recently received awards for excellence in their fields of study.
  • Program Lists UB Events Marking Pan-Am Centennial
    6/8/01
    Free lectures on hygienic cookery. Demonstrations in wireless telegraphy. Visits to heaven and hell for 25 cents, with a trip to the moon at half price. Moving pictures or ostrich-watching, a dime apiece. Just as the Pan-American Exposition brought its patrons daily programs to keep them current on activities and exhibits -- the aforementioned activities took place on Oct. 19, 1901 -- so, too, is the University at Buffalo, which has published a souvenir program marking "UB Pan-Am 2001 Days."
  • UB Dental Students Receive Awards
    6/8/01
    Thirty-three graduating seniors in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine recently received awards at the school's annual Senior Awards Banquet.