News Releases

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

  • Study Focuses on Maternal Cocaine Use, Infant Development
    10/18/01
    In a new study underway at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions, researchers are examining the cumulative effect of a number of risk factors associated with mothers' cocaine use on their infants' mental development.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present Victorian Parody "Cloud 9"
    10/18/01
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Theatre and Dance will present "Cloud 9," Nov. 14-18 in the Black Box Theatre of the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB's TCIE Helps Local Firms and Organizations Obtain Safety Training Grants
    10/17/01
    The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) in the University at Buffalo's Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach has assisted three local firms and one municipality in receiving a total of $46,000 in training grants from the New York State Department of Labor.
  • UB School of Social Work Posts Online Suggestions for Coping with Traumatizing Effects of Terrorist Attacks
    10/17/01
    The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has developed a Web site that offers online information and resources for those who are having personal difficulty coping with the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and its aftermath.
  • NYC Street Memorials to Those Killed in Trade Center Attack Are Subject of Professor's Photos
    10/16/01
    A photographic exhibition depicting memorials erected on the streets of New York City after the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack will be exhibited through Oct. 22 on the Mainstage theater wall in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Feal Heads Modern Languages and Literatures at UB
    10/16/01
    Rosemary G. Feal, Ph.D., professor of Spanish, has been named chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo.
  • Raichle Foundation Gift Funds UB Law School Professorship
    10/16/01
    A generous gift from the Frank G. Raichle Foundation in memory of Raichle, a 1919 University at Buffalo graduate who was a prominent trial and appellate lawyer, has allowed UB Law School to establish its first named professorship.
  • UB Philosopher Bests 520 Entrants in International Mark Twain Writing Competition
    10/15/01
    With an entry that judges said showed "an understanding of human nature reminiscent of Twain," a University at Buffalo philosophy professor has won the top prize in an international writing competition in which 520 entrants wrote the ending to an unpublished story by Mark Twain.
  • Experts to Address the Astonishing Impact of Digital Technology on Our Life and Times
    10/15/01
    Have we developed the collective wisdom and conscience to deal with a world in which ubiquitous technological interactions are so intertwined that they cannot be untangled? Let's hope so, because that's what our future holds. "Digital Frontier: Buffalo Summit 2001," a major international conference to be held Nov. 2 and 3 at the University at Buffalo, will present observations and research on what digital technology has wrought by some of the most brilliant, pioneering thinkers in art, social science, applied science and engineering, medicine, philosophy and education.
  • Expert in Brain Circulation to Present Rahn Lecture
    10/15/01
    Richard J. Traystman, Ph.D., recognized internationally for his discoveries involving brain circulation and metabolism, will present the 10th annual Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on Oct. 25 in Room G-26 of Farber Hall on the University at Buffalo South (Main Street) Campus.