News Releases

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

  • UB Law School Plans Program for Minority High School Students
    1/31/01
    As part of its continuing commitment to diversity, the University at Buffalo Law School will host a visitation program and luncheon for minority high school juniors and seniors who wish to learn more about law school.
  • Retention and Creation of WNY Jobs, New Partnerships to be Celebrated by UB Business Alliance at Feb. 8 Reception
    1/31/01
    The UB Business Alliance will celebrate its accomplishments -- ranging from the retention and creation of thousands of jobs to new technologies and licensing agreements -- at its 2001 Grand Reception, to be held Feb. 8 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Blues/Rock Guitar Virtuosos in a Special Double-Bill
    1/31/01
    The UB Center for the Arts will present a performance by two highly acclaimed blues/rock guitar virtuosos, Eric Johnson with Alien Love Child and The Derek Trucks Band, at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • UB’s Hezel Honored for Work in Affordable Housing
    1/30/01
    George M. Hezel, director of the Affordable Housing Clinic in the University at Buffalo Law School, recently was honored by the Heritage Christian Home Inc. for his outstanding support of the agency and people with special needs.
  • Praxair’s Corporate Philanthropy Benefits UB’s Engineering and Management Schools
    1/30/01
    Praxair Inc., a global supplier of industrial gases that has operations in Tonawanda, has pledged $600,000 to the University at Buffalo -- $400,000 for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and $200,000 for the School of Management and its Executive MBA Program in China. Payments will be made over a period of five years.
  • UB Professor, Former Beijing Fine Arts Editor, Remains Principal Documentarian of New Chinese Art
    1/30/01
    Minglu Gao is an artist, art historian, curator and author who was born and bred in the political and cultural tumult of late 20th-century China. Political circumstances sent him off to spend his teen-aged years herding cattle in Mongolia and later propelled him into the explosive Chinese art movement of the 1980s. Today he is a noted curator and assistant professor of art history at the University at Buffalo.
  • Documents of Distinguished African Americans Featured in Autograph Exhibit at UB
    1/30/01
    "They, Too, Had a Dream," an exhibition of autographs, signed photographs and historical documents of distinguished African Americans, will be on display Feb. 1-28 near the circulation desk on the main level of Lockwood Memorial Library on the University at Buffalo North Campus.
  • Risk-Taking Behavior, “Law of the Jungle” Among Topics to be Explored in UB Lecture Series on Violence
    1/30/01
    The "University and the World" lecture series sponsored by the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will continue its year-long exploration of violence on Feb. 6 with a lecture entitled "Risk-Taking, Inequity and Violence."
  • Regular Cocaine Use May Be Responsible for 1-in-4 Non-Fatal Heart Attacks in Young People, Study Finds
    1/29/01
    One quarter of non-fatal heart attacks among persons under the age of 45 in the United States can be attributed to regular cocaine use, scientists at the University at Buffalo's Toshiba Stroke Research Center have found. The study findings appear in the January issue of Circulation.
  • Five to be Inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame
    1/26/01
    Two of the most prolific offensive players in University at Buffalo football history, the first 1,000-point scorer and leading rebounder in women's basketball and a record-setting swimmer comprise the next class to be inducted into the UB Athletic Hall of Fame.