News Releases

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

  • UB Professor Lends Chemistry Expertise as Consultant to Author of Romance Novel
    7/10/00
    University at Buffalo chemistry professor Joseph Gardella's zeal for bringing science literacy to the general public has found him playing some unique roles: sometimes as a translator of highly technical documents for local community groups, other times as a mediator between neighborhoods and local chemical companies. Gardella recently took on his most novel role as interpreter of science for the masses when he became a science consultant to a writer of Harlequin romances.
  • WBFO 88.7 FM Adding Two Popular Shows to Schedule
    7/6/00
    UB's National Public Radio station, WBFO 88.7 FM, is adding Public Radio International's award-winning "Marketplace" to its schedule beginning Aug. 7 and the one-hour NPR news quiz show, "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" to its lineup beginning Aug. 6.
  • Mini-Med School to Present "Grand-Rounds" Course
    7/3/00
    UB’s Mini-Medical School will offer a four-session medical "grand-rounds" course on diagnosis and treatment of diseases using actual case histories, beginning July 18.
  • Sports Medicine Institute Opens Lockport Clinic
    7/3/00
    UB's Sports Medicine Institute has opened a clinic at 5875 South Transit Road in Lockport to serve individuals and athletic teams in Western New York's northern communities.
  • "Healthy-Worker Effect" Can Skew True Picture of Workers’ Health, UB Study Shows; Focus on female workers at nuclear-weapons sites provides latest reminder
    7/3/00
    Employees should be skeptical of any report boasting that their health as a group is better than that of the general population, an occupational epidemiologist at the University at Buffalo warns. Such a comparison always will make the group and the company look good, said Gregg S. Wilkinson, Ph.D., a professor in the UB Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, because of an innate bias called the "healthy worker effect."
  • Donation to Fund Recognition of UB History Students
    6/29/00
    Believing that an educated citizenry makes for a stronger democracy, a second-generation UB alumnus is donating $60,000 to its College of Arts and Sciences.
  • UB’s Mauner, Koenig Receive $462,000 NIH Grant to Study How Mind Represents, Uses Information Encoded in Words
    6/29/00
    Two faculty members in the UB College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded a three-year, $462,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine how information about words is represented in the mind and used when reading and talking.
  • UB Technology Improves Distance Learning in Caribbean
    6/29/00
    After years of limited access on the part of students, higher education in the Caribbean received a major boost this summer when the University at Buffalo put the region's first distance-learning WebBoard online at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
  • Women Who Eat Lake Ontario Fish May Increase Their Time to Conceive, UB Study Shows
    6/28/00
    Women who regularly eat fish from Lake Ontario, known to be contaminated with PCBs and other hormone-disrupting chemicals, may be about 25 percent less likely to become pregnant than women who do not, researchers from the University at Buffalo have found.
  • UB Clinic Aims to Help Victims of Motor-Vehicle Accidents
    6/27/00
    Most of us accept driving it as part of our daily lives, whether or not we're behind the wheel. However, few of us expect to be involved in a motor-vehicle accident that will change the course of our lives in an instant, according to a University at Buffalo researcher who has been evaluating and treating victims of motor-vehicle accidents for several years.