News Releases

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

  • IBM Donation Increases Computing Power, Storage Capacity in UB Supercomputing Center
    1/26/01
    IBM, a partner since day one in the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR), is positioning UB's outstanding supercomputing facility for even greater growth by donating equipment worth more than $640,000.
  • UB Education School Receives $495,000 Grant to Develop Technology Education Program for State’s Teachers
    1/24/01
    A consortium that includes the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received a three-year grant through a U.S. Department of Education initiative to develop a model that can be used to infuse technology instruction into teacher-education programs.
  • Software Designed to Help Identify Criminals Who Write Ransom Notes, Forge Checks
    1/24/01
    Who wrote the Jon-Benet Ramsey ransom note? A computer program developed at the University at Buffalo that is 98 percent effective in determining authorship of handwritten documents soon may be able to assist in answering such questions.
  • UB’s Feal Elected to MLA Nominating Committee
    1/24/01
    Rosemary G. Feal, professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been elected by the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association to a two-year term on the MLA's Nominating Committee, which presents a slate of candidates for the major offices of the association.
  • UB Dental Alumni Association Elects Officers
    1/24/01
    David R. Rice, D.D.S., a 1994 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been elected president of its Dental Alumni Association for 2001.
  • Workshop to Focus on Proposals to Niagara County Environmental Fund
    1/23/01
    Two workshops will be held for applicants who plan to submit grant proposals to the Niagara County Environmental Fund (NCEF).
  • Emeritus Professor Establishes Fellowship Grant Program in UB School of Architecture and Planning
    1/23/01
    The UB School of Architecture and Planning has announced a new fellowship grant program established by Ibrahim Jammal, professor emeritus in the school's Department of Planning, and his wife, Viviane.
  • UB Professor Remembered Through Family Gift for Engineering Scholarships
    1/23/01
    John Zahorjan, a Fisher-Price industrial engineering executive who "retired" to his first love of teaching at the University at Buffalo, has been remembered by his family through a $260,000 pledge to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Ashley Kahn, Author of Book on Davis’ “Kind of Blue” Album, to Present Reading at UB on Jan. 30
    1/19/01
    Author Ashley Kahn, author of "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece," will give a reading at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 in the auditorium of Allen Hall on the UB South Campus.
  • Venom from Chilean Tarantula May Prevent Potentially Deadly Arrythmias, UB Research Shows
    1/19/01
    A specific protein isolated from the venom of a Chilean tarantula by University at Buffalo biophysicists shows promise as the basis for new drugs for preventing atrial fibrillation, the chaotic beating of the heart that is a major cause of death following a heart attack.