News Releases

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

  • Men Who Develop Testicular Cancer Have Fertility Problems Even Before Diagnosis, UB Epidemiologists Find
    6/12/00
    Men who develop testicular cancer father fewer children and are more likely to have been diagnosed with infertility prior to their cancer diagnosis than healthy controls, a University at Buffalo study has found.
  • $500,000 In State Funding Sponsored By Rath Bolsters Work Of UB Institute For Lasers, Photonics And Biophotonics
    6/9/00
    Prospects for an emerging laser and photonics industry in Western New York have brightened, thanks to a $500,000 allocation from New York State, sponsored by State Senator Mary Lou Rath, to the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics.
  • Researchers Look For Answers To Questions About Parenting Styles And Child Development
    6/6/00
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) have begun a five-year project, funded by a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, to study infant and child development and the factors that influence parenting skills.
  • University At Buffalo Study Shows Exercise Training Helps Aging Muscles Resist Injury, Could Postpone “Frailty”
    6/6/00
    Regular exercise helps aging muscles retain their flexibility and protects them from injury, one of the few studies of the effect of exercise training on muscle function in aging animals has found.
  • UB Law Professor Judy Scales-Trent Wins Fulbright Award
    6/5/00
    Judy Scales-Trent, professor of law at the University at Buffalo, has received a Fulbright award to conduct research and teach in Senegal during the 2000-2001 academic year.
  • NIH Grant of $1.2 Million to Fund 6 Postdoctoral Fellows at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions
    6/2/00
    A new grant of $1,198,000 to the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholismwill provide quality research training for six future scientists in the causes of alcohol use and misuse, as well as treatment for alcohol-use disorders.
  • UB Student Selected as Goldwater Scholar
    6/1/00
    Anand S. Vaidya, A UB biophysical sciences major, is one of 309 students nationwide named a 2000 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar.
  • UB Research Presentation Wins Top Prize At Symposium
    5/31/00
    A research presentation describing a new medical-imaging technique developed and evaluated by a team of UB researchers that could lead to improved diagnostic imaging using lower doses of radiation has won the top prize at the SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging.
  • Virtual Reality Tool Quantifies Physics Of A Doctor's Touch
    5/31/00
    University at Buffalo researchers are developing a system that will allow physicians to use a new form of virtual reality to store information about what they feel during an exam. That information then will be accessible to the examining physician at a later time or to consulting physicians at another location, allowing them to experience the exam as though they had performed it themselves.
  • UB Department Of Art To Offer Summer Enrichment Programs
    5/31/00
    The UB Department of Art will present enrichment programs this summer in drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, illustration, photography and computer graphics.