News Releases

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

  • "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.
  • UB Scientist Warns that Bad Publicity, Litigation May Produce Shortage of Implant Devices
    6/26/00
    Bad publicity and costly litigation involving some implants threatens to create a growing shortage of devices ranging from heart valves to joint replacements, an internationally known authority on implants at the University at Buffalo warns.
  • Twelve from UB Receive 2000 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards
    6/23/00
    Six faculty members, four professional staff members and two librarians at UB have received 2000 State University of New York Chancellor's Awards for Excellence from SUNY Chancellor Robert L. King.
  • UB School of Social Work Receives $2.9 Million NIAAA Grant to Help Families Break Cycle of Substance Abuse
    6/22/00
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo have received a five-year, $2.9 million grant to conduct an international project aimed at helping children of alcohol-dependent parents avoid becoming substance abusers themselves.
  • Lifestyle Habits Not a Factor in Length of Time to Conceive Among Fertile Women, UB Study Finds
    6/22/00
    University at Buffalo researchers have found that a woman's biology -- specifically age at first menstruation and at first live birth -- not lifestyle habits she or her partner may have adopted, were the major predictors of resolved fertility, defined as conceiving a child only after a year or more of trying.