News Releases

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

  • Kerry S. Grant Named Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Graduate School at UB
    2/8/01
    Kerry S. Grant, dean of the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences, has been named vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate School at UB, effective March 1.
  • From Polkas to Pierogi: Award-Winning Book Looks at Thriving Polish-American Community
    2/7/01
    A University at Buffalo staff member has been honored by the Polish American Historical Association for her new book, which looks at how Polish Americans have creatively adapted the rural peasant folklore of the old country to become a thriving contemporary part of multicultural, urban America.
  • UB School of Management’s Career Resource Center Cited as One of Nation’s Best
    2/6/01
    A national benchmarking report has cited the Career Resource Center in the University at Buffalo School of Management as one of the five best business-school career offices nationwide in terms of student satisfaction.
  • $10.5 Million from NSF, $6 Million SUNY Investment to Bolster UB Earthquake-Engineering Research
    2/3/01
    The University at Buffalo's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering has been awarded $16.5 million in federal and state funding to develop the world's most versatile earthquake engineering research facility designed to provide testing capabilities that will revolutionize the understanding of how even very large structures behave during earthquakes.
  • UB Law School Plans Program for Minority High School Students
    1/31/01
    As part of its continuing commitment to diversity, the University at Buffalo Law School will host a visitation program and luncheon for minority high school juniors and seniors who wish to learn more about law school.
  • Retention and Creation of WNY Jobs, New Partnerships to be Celebrated by UB Business Alliance at Feb. 8 Reception
    1/31/01
    The UB Business Alliance will celebrate its accomplishments -- ranging from the retention and creation of thousands of jobs to new technologies and licensing agreements -- at its 2001 Grand Reception, to be held Feb. 8 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Blues/Rock Guitar Virtuosos in a Special Double-Bill
    1/31/01
    The UB Center for the Arts will present a performance by two highly acclaimed blues/rock guitar virtuosos, Eric Johnson with Alien Love Child and The Derek Trucks Band, at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Mainstage Theatre of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • UB’s Hezel Honored for Work in Affordable Housing
    1/30/01
    George M. Hezel, director of the Affordable Housing Clinic in the University at Buffalo Law School, recently was honored by the Heritage Christian Home Inc. for his outstanding support of the agency and people with special needs.
  • Praxair’s Corporate Philanthropy Benefits UB’s Engineering and Management Schools
    1/30/01
    Praxair Inc., a global supplier of industrial gases that has operations in Tonawanda, has pledged $600,000 to the University at Buffalo -- $400,000 for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and $200,000 for the School of Management and its Executive MBA Program in China. Payments will be made over a period of five years.
  • UB Professor, Former Beijing Fine Arts Editor, Remains Principal Documentarian of New Chinese Art
    1/30/01
    Minglu Gao is an artist, art historian, curator and author who was born and bred in the political and cultural tumult of late 20th-century China. Political circumstances sent him off to spend his teen-aged years herding cattle in Mongolia and later propelled him into the explosive Chinese art movement of the 1980s. Today he is a noted curator and assistant professor of art history at the University at Buffalo.