News Releases

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

  • Harvard Professor to Delve into Poets’ Hostility for their Mothers in Lecture at UB
    9/21/00
    Barbara E. Johnson, Ph.D., Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, will present a free lecture at 4 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts as part of the "University and the World" lecture series sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Pinkel Named Medical School’s Distinguished Alumnus
    9/21/00
    Donald Pinkel, professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M University Medical School and a renowned specialist in pediatric oncology, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UB Medical Alumni Association at a dinner held Sept. 14.
  • 10 Festival Films to be Screened at UB
    9/21/00
    The 10 films featured in the traveling Empire State Film Festival will be screened from 3-5 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts.
  • Alan Zweibel to Speak at UB on Oct. 4
    9/21/00
    The Department of Media Study in the UB College of Arts and Sciences will host a visit by Alan Zweibel, a UB alumnus and one of the original writers for "Saturday Night Live," on Oct. 4.
  • Arteries in Children of Premature Heart-Attack Victims Show Stiffening, Thickening at an Early Age
    9/20/00
    Researchers can see the future in the blood vessels of children with a parent who has had a premature heart attack and the picture is not pretty. A study in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine -- on which Maurizio Trevisan, M.D., professor and chair in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo, is senior author -- reports that ultrasound images showed structural and functional abnormalities known to lead to atherosclerosis in children as young as 6 years.
  • Pain Specialist to Present 4th Annual Bullough Lecture
    9/19/00
    Ada K. Jacox, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for research at Wayne State University College of Nursing, will discuss "The Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Outcomes and Cost" at the fourth annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held Oct. 5 at UB.
  • UB Alum Funds Fellowship for Minority Student in Graduate Engineering Program
    9/19/00
    A retired General Electric vice president has matched money with his former employer to provide a $20,000 fellowship for the UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
  • American Sign Language Studied for Use as “Common Language” in Multilingual Preschools
    9/19/00
    The Early Childhood Research Center (ECRC) at the University at Buffalo has begun a project to explore the use of American Sign Language (ASL) as a common medium of communication among multilingual/multicultural preschool children whose socialization and English-language development often are impeded by the language barrier.
  • Expert on Spinal Cord Injury and Recovery to Lecture at UB
    9/19/00
    Barbara Bregman, Ph.D., professor and chair in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center, will discuss "Regeneration and Recovery of Function After Spinal Cord Injury" at the 12th annual J. Warren Perry Lecture, sponsored by the School of Health Related Professions at UB.
  • Why Some Minority Groups Succeed in School and Some Don’t to be Provocative Subject of UB’s 2000 Acer Colloquium
    9/19/00
    John U. Ogbu, Ph.D., Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the world's leading educational anthropologists, will present the 2000 Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education at UB.