News Releases

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

  • Students Receive Art Department Awards
    5/11/01
    Fourteen students in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences have received 2000-01 departmental awards for their work.
  • UB to Honor 38 at Annual Inventors Reception
    5/11/01
    Thirty-eight individuals named on patents issued to The Research Foundation of State University of New York in 2000 will be honored when UB holds its annual inventors reception on May 16.
  • 37 UB Students to Perform in Carnegie Hall
    5/11/01
    Students from the University at Buffalo choir and chorus next month will travel to New York City to perform what conductor Harold Rosenbaum calls "the most dramatic work imaginable" -- Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 -- in perhaps one of the most dramatic venues imaginable -- Carnegie Hall.
  • Delaware North's Chief Donates Buffalo Landmark to UB
    5/9/01
    Business executive and civic leader Jeremy M. Jacobs, Sr., has donated the landmark Butler Mansion -- now the Jacobs Executive Development Center -- to the University at Buffalo and its School of Management.
  • Olmsted Ross Receives Lucien Howe Medal
    5/9/01
    Elizabeth Olmsted Ross, M.D. '39, has received the prestigious Lucien Howe Medal for outstanding achievement in ophthalmology.
  • Bullet-Probing Kits and Dancing Xylophonists!! Libraries to Present Celebrated and Arcane Aspects of Pan-Am
    5/8/01
    "Illuminations: Revisiting Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition" is a summer series of collaborative on-site and on-line exhibitions produced by eight of the University at Buffalo Libraries and Special Collections. It will illustrate the cultural and historical underpinnings of Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition, a Gilded-Age international celebration of technology and industry that heralded the dawn of the 20th century.
  • UB School of Management to Offer Course on Starting a High-Tech Business
    5/8/01
    Renowned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from the world of e-business will teach a course on "High-Tech Startups" as part of the CEO-MBA series offered by the University at Buffalo School of Management.
  • New Gift from Anonymous Donor Helps UB Honors Program Approach Halfway Mark on Its $10 Million Campaign Goal
    5/8/01
    With an unwavering commitment to educating the best and the brightest students, the anonymous donor whose contributions started, and have been the major force behind, the University at Buffalo's Distinguished Honors Scholars Program has given the program another cash donation of $800,000.
  • WBFO Completes Work on Chautauqua Repeater Station
    5/8/01
    WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, has completed a project to expand and improve the signal of WUBJ 88.1 FM, its repeater station serving residents of Jamestown and Chautauqua County.
  • Teams of UB MBA Students Help Town of Amherst Move Toward E-Government Applications
    5/8/01
    Working with officials from the Town of Amherst and representatives from EDS, teams of University at Buffalo MBA students are developing e-commerce applications designed to streamline town services and generate cost-savings for governmental operations.