News Releases

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

  • Hog Wild in Athens B.C.E.! Role of Pigs in Social and Religious Life Provides Insights into Ancient Greece
    8/16/00
    Pork may be today's "other white meat," but when it comes to hog heaven, we can't hold a candle to the ancient Greeks, according to Susan Cole, associate professor and chair in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, who has spent years researching the role pigs played in Greek social and religious life.
  • Study Shows Glucose Consumption Increases Production of Destructive Free Radicals, Lowers Level of Key Antioxidant
    8/16/00
    Excess sugar in the bloodstream stimulates the generation of free radicals, the oxygen molecules known to damage cells lining blood vessels and many other organs, according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers.
  • UB Opens South Lake Village Student Housing Complex
    8/15/00
    South Lake Village, the third phase in a long-term plan to provide housing for University at Buffalo students and improve their quality of life, opened today (Aug. 15, 2000) with a ceremony at the complex on the North (Amherst) Campus. The second apartment-style housing complex to be built on the North Campus in the past two years, South Lake Village features nine two-story buildings and seven three-story buildings with a capacity to house 552 students.
  • UB Athletics Gets Huge Boost for Gender Equity
    8/11/00
    The women's athletic programs at the University at Buffalo received a $800,000 "earmark" in the 2000-01 New York State budget to continue efforts to keep pace with other Division I institutions and further balance the opportunities for the university's student-athletes.
  • Buffalo Film Seminars Fall Series to Begin Aug. 30 with Original Print of Renoir’s
    8/10/00
    The restored version of Jean Renoir's 1937 classic film "The Grand Illusion," starring Jean Gabin and Eric von Stroheim, will open the Fall 2000 Buffalo Film Seminars, the popular 14-week series of screenings and discussions of great films sponsored by the UB and the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre.
  • UB Study Suggests Insulin May Help Protect Against Coronary Artery Disease
    8/10/00
    Excess insulin in the bloodstream does not appear to contribute to atherosclerosis or arterial clogging, despite the known association of Type 2 diabetes with cardiovascular disease, a study by University at Buffalo endocrinologists has shown.
  • UB Breaks Ground for Housing Complex, Fourth Housing Project in Long-Term Plan
    8/10/00
    The University at Buffalo broke ground this week for Gateway Village, the fourth residential project for university students to be built in recent years as part of a long-term plan to provide housing for students and improve their quality of life. Gateway Village will be located on both sides of Flint Road at Augspurger Road near the old UB stadium on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will house a mix of 540 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in one-, two- and four-bedroom units. Being built at an estimated cost of $22 million, it is scheduled to open in August 2001.
  • From Soup-Gone-Bad to Hickory Woods – UB Lecture Series to Highlight the Humanities’ Broad Disciplinary Base
    8/10/00
    The College of Arts and Sciences will present quite a feast over the next eight months. It is a series of free public lectures by CAS faculty members that will explore a variety of subjects from an affection for the rotting smell of "high" meat (Sept. 18) to advances in the treatment of auto-immune diseases (Jan. 22).
  • UB Assistant Dean, Buffalo Internist Elected Vice Speaker of American Medical Association
    8/9/00
    Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant dean for academic and curricular affairs in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a clinical associate professor of medicine, was elected vice speaker of the American Medical Association's (AMA) policy-making House of Delegates during the association's annual meeting.
  • Nobel Laureate to Present Rustgi Lecture
    8/9/00
    "Fractional Charges and Other Tales from Flatland" will be the topic of The Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Nobel laureate Horst Störmer at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 in Room 225 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus.