News Releases

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

  • UB’s 5th Annual International Women’s Film Festival to Bring Outstanding Films to Downtown Buffalo
    1/19/01
    "Chutney Popcorn," winner of major awards at the 2000 Berlin, Ojai, San Francisco, Los Angeles Outfest and the 1999 Newport film festivals, will open the University at Buffalo's fifth annual International Women's Film Festival on Jan. 25 in the Market Arcade theater, 639 Main St., Buffalo.
  • UB Art Department to Offer Workshops
    1/19/01
    The Department of Art in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will offer a five-to-six-week series of workshops, some beginning in late January, for members of the public interested in working with UB faculty members.
  • UB School of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series to Feature International Architecture, Design Stars
    1/19/01
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning this spring will sponsor lectures, exhibitions and teaching fellowships by some of the world's architectural legends, including the brilliant, witty, imaginative architectural team of MacArthur fellows Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.
  • Family Gift for Engineering Scholarship Honors UB Alum and Military Helicopter Pilot
    1/16/01
    The family of Yong H. Lee has remembered the 1981 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with an endowed scholarship in memory of the helicopter pilot who died in 1996 in a crash during the initial test flight of a military helicopter bound for the presidential fleet.
  • Author, Screenwriter Price to Kick Off Wednesdays at 4 PLUS; Poet Fraser, Critic Altieri Also on Spring-Semester Slate
    1/16/01
    Richard Price, author of such novels as "The Wanderers," "Freedomland" and the best-selling "Clockers," and a prolific writer of screenplays -- one of which, "The Color of Money," earned him an Oscar nomination -- will bring his urban sensibilities to the University at Buffalo on Feb. 7 as the first guest in this semester's "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" literary series.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.
  • Solo Dance Artist Margie Gillis to Perform at UB as Part of KeyBank Dance Series
    1/12/01
    The UB Center for the Arts will continue the 2000-01 KeyBank Dance Series with a performance by solo dance artist Margie Gillis at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research Tests Itanium™ Processor for Biological Applications
    1/12/01
    A new era in supercomputing has arrived at the University at Buffalo, one of just three sites in the world selected by SGI to beta-test Intel's new Itanium™ processor. The other sites are the Ohio Supercomputing Center and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
  • UB’s Master’s Program in Applied Economics Drawing Students from Around the World
    1/11/01
    Now in its third year, the University at Buffalo's master's degree program in applied economics has tripled its enrollment -- drawing, in particular, a large international student contingent -- and by all accounts, seems to be filling a niche both for student and market demand.