News Releases

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

  • Emeritus Professor Establishes Fellowship Grant Program in UB School of Architecture and Planning
    1/23/01
    The UB School of Architecture and Planning has announced a new fellowship grant program established by Ibrahim Jammal, professor emeritus in the school's Department of Planning, and his wife, Viviane.
  • UB Professor Remembered Through Family Gift for Engineering Scholarships
    1/23/01
    John Zahorjan, a Fisher-Price industrial engineering executive who "retired" to his first love of teaching at the University at Buffalo, has been remembered by his family through a $260,000 pledge to UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
  • Ashley Kahn, Author of Book on Davis’ “Kind of Blue” Album, to Present Reading at UB on Jan. 30
    1/19/01
    Author Ashley Kahn, author of "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece," will give a reading at 8 p.m. Jan. 30 in the auditorium of Allen Hall on the UB South Campus.
  • Venom from Chilean Tarantula May Prevent Potentially Deadly Arrythmias, UB Research Shows
    1/19/01
    A specific protein isolated from the venom of a Chilean tarantula by University at Buffalo biophysicists shows promise as the basis for new drugs for preventing atrial fibrillation, the chaotic beating of the heart that is a major cause of death following a heart attack.
  • UB’s 5th Annual International Women’s Film Festival to Bring Outstanding Films to Downtown Buffalo
    1/19/01
    "Chutney Popcorn," winner of major awards at the 2000 Berlin, Ojai, San Francisco, Los Angeles Outfest and the 1999 Newport film festivals, will open the University at Buffalo's fifth annual International Women's Film Festival on Jan. 25 in the Market Arcade theater, 639 Main St., Buffalo.
  • UB Art Department to Offer Workshops
    1/19/01
    The Department of Art in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will offer a five-to-six-week series of workshops, some beginning in late January, for members of the public interested in working with UB faculty members.
  • UB School of Architecture and Planning Lecture Series to Feature International Architecture, Design Stars
    1/19/01
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning this spring will sponsor lectures, exhibitions and teaching fellowships by some of the world's architectural legends, including the brilliant, witty, imaginative architectural team of MacArthur fellows Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.
  • Family Gift for Engineering Scholarship Honors UB Alum and Military Helicopter Pilot
    1/16/01
    The family of Yong H. Lee has remembered the 1981 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with an endowed scholarship in memory of the helicopter pilot who died in 1996 in a crash during the initial test flight of a military helicopter bound for the presidential fleet.
  • Author, Screenwriter Price to Kick Off Wednesdays at 4 PLUS; Poet Fraser, Critic Altieri Also on Spring-Semester Slate
    1/16/01
    Richard Price, author of such novels as "The Wanderers," "Freedomland" and the best-selling "Clockers," and a prolific writer of screenplays -- one of which, "The Color of Money," earned him an Oscar nomination -- will bring his urban sensibilities to the University at Buffalo on Feb. 7 as the first guest in this semester's "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" literary series.
  • Computational Physics Degrees Lead to Careers Ranging from Designing Computer Games to Work on Wall Street
    1/12/01
    Two degree programs recently developed by the Department of Physics in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences could lead students into new career paths that a few years ago may have seemed rather unusual for a traditional physicist.