News Releases

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

  • Buffalo Education Community Comes Together in March for Serious Examination of Public-School Reform
    3/1/01
    The Buffalo educational community is taking a long, serious look at the challenges facing urban-education systems during Urban Education Month, a major program of events being held through March 31 and coordinated by the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) and its Urban Education Institute.
  • Digital Composer Combines Real Instruments, Computers to Produce Sounds that Tease, Seduce, Shock and Surprise
    2/28/01
    Cort Lippe appears in his formal photographs to be the serious-minded composer he is -- a leading figure in the international electro-acoustic music community. He is an assistant professor and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo, an international nerve center for composition and research in the field of interactive computer music. That, however, is just part of his story.
  • New York Islanders’ Former Co-Owner and CEO Donates to University at Buffalo’s Division of Athletics
    2/28/01
    University at Buffalo alumnus Stephen Walsh -- business executive, former co-owner and CEO of the New York Islanders NHL hockey team -- and his wife, Janet B. Walsh, have pledged $250,000 to the University at Buffalo's Division of Athletics.
  • UB-Based Health Care Industries Association Sets 10th Annual Meeting for March 13
    2/28/01
    The University at Buffalo-based Health Care Industries Association (HCIA) will celebrate a decade of generating regional economic growth and development during its 10th annual meeting, to be held March 13 in the Buffalo/Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst.
  • “Crossed Wires” in Brain Pathways Controlling Vision and Hearing Play Role in Tinnitus, UB Study Finds
    2/26/01
    Tinnitus, the disruptive ringing in the ears that affects millions of people, originates not in the ear but in the brain, and not even exclusively in the brain's auditory centers, a new study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo VA Medical Center has shown.
  • UB Pharmacy School, Rochester Medical School Establish Joint Pharmacology Unit
    2/23/01
    The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has implemented a new agreement that establishes a Clinical Pharmacology Unit jointly administered by UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
  • Mathematical Model Suggests Link Between Chaotic Oscillations in Kidneys and Hypertension
    2/23/01
    Practitioners of applied mathematics use a lexicon of numerical equations, instead of letters and sentences, to illuminate the secrets of the physical world. Now UB mathematics professor Bruce Pitman is using this "foreign language," to help solve gritty, real-world problems by developing computational models of everything ranging from large industrial systems to tiny biological ones, including the primary functional unit in the kidneys -- the nephron, which measures a mere 20 microns across.
  • Stinger Named Interim Dean for Arts and Sciences
    2/23/01
    Charles L. Stinger, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been named interim dean of the college, effective March 1.
  • UB Marketing Chair, Marketing Experts to Examine Image of Ford and Firestone Brands Following Tire Recall
    2/22/01
    A comprehensive case study by the chair of the marketing department in the University at Buffalo School of Management on the brand images of Firestone and Ford Motor Co. will be the basis for a panel discussion to be held on March 3 by the school's Executive MBA Program.
  • UB Seeks Southern Exposure for Its Campaign Efforts
    2/22/01
    The University at Buffalo's fund-raising campaign is going south -- to Naples, Fla. Carole Fenstermacher, director of gift planning for UB's Office of University Development, is establishing a regional office in Naples.