News Releases

A University at Buffalo administrator has recaptured the vibrancy and innovation of the Pan-Am Exposition in his book, "The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901."

Twenty-five students will be honored for being the outstanding graduating senior in departments within UB's College of Arts and Sciences in a ceremony and reception to be held at 2 p.m. May 1 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts. Each student will receive a medal to be worn at the university's 155th general commencement ceremony on May 13.

UB's Psychological Services Center in Park Hall will offer free screening and information sessions on May 2, which has been designated National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day.

The University at Buffalo is bolstering its ties with the community with the formation of an institute that will strengthen the planning and management skills of local not-for-profit agencies. Funded by a $190,000 grant from The John R. Oishei Foundation, the UB Institute for Non-Profit Agencies will work with the management of local health and human-service agencies to train and certify executives, managers and staff in program planning, development, management, supervision and evaluation.

UB's Psychological Services Center during May will offer to the community, as well as UB students, faculty and staff, a Relaxation Workshop, a Couples Communication Workshop and a workshop titled "Mind over Mood."

A multidisciplinary team of pharmaceutics and computer-science researchers at the University at Buffalo, one of very few teams in the nation applying DNA microarray technology in studies of multiple sclerosis (MS), has developed a method of interpreting the massive amount of information that results from such experiments.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo has received the largest grant in its history for a project that will bring a South African theater group to the center for a month this fall, with performances scheduled not only in the CFA, but in homes and businesses in the community.

A renowned poet and playwright of the Puerto Rican diaspora will visit UB in May to commemorate the life and work of scholar, poet and novelist Alfredo Matilla, Ph.D., who for 23 years was a professor in the UB Department of American Studies. Matilla, a UB faculty member from 1972-95 and chair of the Department of American Studies from 1991-95, died March 29 in Puerto Rico. He was 63.

Connections between feminism, corporate law and economic policy will be explored during the "Feminism, Corporations and Capitalism: Policy and Protest Workshop" to be held April 20 and 21 at the UB Law School.

Seventeen UB juniors will be inducted into the UB Launch Chapter of MortarBoard, the national senior honor society, on April 19.