News Releases

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

  • Zodiaque Dance Company to Present Fall Dance Concert
    9/29/00
    UB Department of Theatre and Dance will present “Ripples,” the fall concert of Zodiaque Dance Company. An evening of creative energy that ripples and radiates the landscape upon which we move, the performances will be held Oct. 12-15 and 19-22 in the Drama Theatre.
  • UB Department of Theatre and Dance to Present “Cotton Girls” and “Overtones”
    9/29/00
    The Department of Theatre and Dance will present “Cotton Girls” and “Overtones” Oct. 19-22 in the Black Box Theatre, located at UB Center for the Arts, North Campus. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
  • UB Architecture Faculty Awarded $120,000 Federal Grant to Develop Online Educational Materials in Universal Design
    9/29/00
    Wassim Jabi of Buffalo, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, has received a $120,000 U.S. Department of Education (DOE) sub-grant through the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University.
  • Baldy Center Has Risen to Top Among Programs Focusing on Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Legal Institutions
    9/29/00
    The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, which began at the University at Buffalo Law School as a program in law and the social sciences, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as one of the top academic institutions internationally recognized for interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions.
  • UB Conference of Pragmatic Naturalists Will Look at the Future of Realism
    9/28/00
    The UB Department of Philosophy will present an international conference Oct. 20-21 in honor of Peter Hare, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and former chair of the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • “Engineering the Organic” -- Exhibition Assesses Partnership of Engineer J.J. Polivka and Frank Lloyd Wright
    9/28/00
    Western New Yorkers this fall will have an opportunity to visit an architectural exhibition employing new technologies, including virtual reality, to examine a little-known but significant working relationship in the career of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • UB’s Olympic Presence: Former UB Chancellor, President Competed in 1920 Games in Antwerp
    9/28/00
    Eighty years ago, a young collegian from Indiana was settling back into campus life after spending the summer as an Olympic athlete and competitor in post-Olympic events overseas. The 19-year-old Purdue undergraduate was Clifford C. Furnas (1900-1969), who went on to a distinguished career as scientist, author and chancellor of the University of Buffalo from 1954-62, and from 1962-66 as the first president of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • UB’s State of the Region Project Receives Statewide Award
    9/28/00
    The New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) has awarded its 2000 Planning Award for Public Education to the State of the Region project, an initiative of the University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.
  • UB Study Shows that Early Drug Treatment Can Delay Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis in High-Risk Patients
    9/28/00
    A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine led by Lawrence Jacobs, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo, has shown that early treatment with one of the drugs used to control multiple sclerosis (MS) can significantly reduce the rate at which people at high risk develop full-blown symptoms of the disease.
  • Showing Their Colors -- Afro-Germans Beginning to Carve a Place for Themselves in German Society
    9/21/00
    The existence of Afro-Germans is unknown to most Americans, although many of the 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany today are of American G.I. parentage and distinguished African Americans like educator and writer W.E.B. DuBois and abolitionist Frederick Douglass had notable ties to Germany and Germans. The social and cultural issues that Afro-Germans face today, and how their experiences can enrich our understanding of historical and contemporary racial issues, will be explored at a conference to be held at UB on Oct. 12-13.