News Releases

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

  • One of World’s Great Asian Music Virtuosos Plans Performance Lecture at UB
    9/13/00
    UB will host a performance lecture on traditional Korean music by virtuoso performer and composer Kim Jin Hi at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Screening Room, Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • UB Heads $10 Million DARPA Research Project to Develop New Materials for Field of "Spintronics"
    9/13/00
    The University at Buffalo is the lead institution in a $10 million project to develop specific ferromagnetic materials for use in "spintronics," the emerging research field in physics focused on spin-dependent phenomena applied to electronic devices.
  • UB Researcher Studying Couples Therapy in Combination with Substance-Abuse Treatment
    9/13/00
    A researcher with the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions has embarked on the first comprehensive examination of the multidimensional effects of couples therapy with married or cohabiting individuals who misuse drugs other than alcohol. The study by William Fals-Stewart, Ph.D., senior research scientist, is funded by a $2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
  • Lung Function May Predict Long Life or Early Death
    9/12/00
    How well your lungs function may predict how long you live, according to a nearly 30-year follow-up of the association between impaired pulmonary function and all causes of mortality conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo.
  • Michael Farrell to Head UB Sociology Department
    9/8/00
    Michael P. Farrell, Ph.D., of Rochester, professor of sociology at UB, has been named chair of the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Verizon Grant Will Provide Web Walk Through Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece
    9/8/00
    It will be a walk on the "Web side" when a 20th-century Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece goes virtual through a grant to the Center for Virtual Architecture in the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB Psychologist Hull Wins Coveted Research Award
    9/8/00
    Elaine M. Hull, Ph.D., professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has received a $602,759 Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an arm of the National Institutes of Health.
  • Davies Receives Award from Johnson & Johnson for Work on Method to Synthesize New Pharmaceuticals
    9/8/00
    Huw M.L. Davies, Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has received a prestigious Focused Giving Award from Johnson & Johnson.
  • MBA Students Plan Yearlong Series of Volunteer Activities
    9/6/00
    MBA students typically are more interested in acts of commerce than acts of charity. But this weekend, about 50 full-time MBA students from the School of Management will begin a yearlong series of volunteer activities that they believe should be an important part of any business-school curriculum.
  • Chief of NIH Research Branch Named UB Vice President for Research
    9/6/00
    Jaylan S. Turkkan, Ph.D., who has an extensive record as an academic researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a research administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related agencies, has been named vice president for research at the University at Buffalo, effective Oct. 1.