News Releases

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

  • Arteries in Children of Premature Heart-Attack Victims Show Stiffening, Thickening at an Early Age
    9/20/00
    Researchers can see the future in the blood vessels of children with a parent who has had a premature heart attack and the picture is not pretty. A study in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine -- on which Maurizio Trevisan, M.D., professor and chair in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo, is senior author -- reports that ultrasound images showed structural and functional abnormalities known to lead to atherosclerosis in children as young as 6 years.
  • Pain Specialist to Present 4th Annual Bullough Lecture
    9/19/00
    Ada K. Jacox, Ph.D., professor and associate dean for research at Wayne State University College of Nursing, will discuss "The Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Outcomes and Cost" at the fourth annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture, to be held Oct. 5 at UB.
  • UB Alum Funds Fellowship for Minority Student in Graduate Engineering Program
    9/19/00
    A retired General Electric vice president has matched money with his former employer to provide a $20,000 fellowship for the UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
  • American Sign Language Studied for Use as “Common Language” in Multilingual Preschools
    9/19/00
    The Early Childhood Research Center (ECRC) at the University at Buffalo has begun a project to explore the use of American Sign Language (ASL) as a common medium of communication among multilingual/multicultural preschool children whose socialization and English-language development often are impeded by the language barrier.
  • Expert on Spinal Cord Injury and Recovery to Lecture at UB
    9/19/00
    Barbara Bregman, Ph.D., professor and chair in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center, will discuss "Regeneration and Recovery of Function After Spinal Cord Injury" at the 12th annual J. Warren Perry Lecture, sponsored by the School of Health Related Professions at UB.
  • Why Some Minority Groups Succeed in School and Some Don’t to be Provocative Subject of UB’s 2000 Acer Colloquium
    9/19/00
    John U. Ogbu, Ph.D., Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the world's leading educational anthropologists, will present the 2000 Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education at UB.
  • Wife of Dedicated UB Alumnus Funds Football Scholarship in Memory of her Husband
    9/19/00
    A loyal friend of the University at Buffalo, Kathleen M. Shepard, is making a major gift to the UB Division of Athletics for an endowed football scholarship.
  • Charlie Hunter Trio to Perform at UB
    9/18/00
    UB's Center for the Arts will present an evening with The Charlie Hunter Trio at 8 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Mainstage Theatre in theCenter for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company to be in Residence at UB, Thanks to Special Funding from State Assembly
    9/18/00
    The Studio Company of the American Ballet Theatre, one of a handful of great classical ballet companies in the world, will be in residency at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts from Oct. 1-21.
  • Alison Kraus & Union Station bringing bluegrass to Center for the Arts
    9/18/00
    Metropolitan Entertainment will present an evening with Alison Krauss & Union Station at 8 p.m. on Oct. 6 in the Mainstage Theatre located in the Center for the Arts (CFA) on the North Campus.