News Releases

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

  • 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.
  • Senior Alumni Program to Look at 2000 Presidential Campaign
    9/1/00
    The 2000 presidential campaign will be the focus of a Senior Alumni Luncheon Program at noon on Sept. 20 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • Miramax Films’ Harvey Weinstein to Receive Honorary SUNY Doctorate from UB on Sept. 26
    9/1/00
    Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, who got his start in the entertainment industry 30 years ago by promoting rock concerts at the University at the Buffalo, will receive an honorary SUNY Doctorate of Humane Letters from UB on Sept. 26.
  • UB Study Documents Diabetes-Thyroid Disease Link in Maine Native-American Tribe
    8/30/00
    University at Buffalo researchers have demonstrated for the first time a close association between hypothyroidism and diabetes mellitus in an American-Indian tribe, and found diabetic women to be particularly at risk.
  • UB School of Management, Institute for Entrepreneurship Offer Online "Micro-MBA" Program for Entrepreneurs
    8/30/00
    Targeted to busy entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs worldwide, an Online Micro-MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies -- believed to be the first of its kind -- is being offered jointly by the University at Buffalo School of Management and The Institute for Entrepreneurship, based in Albany.