News Releases

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

  • UB’s Lynch Named Fellow Of National Humanities Center
    5/19/00
    Deidre Shauna Lynch, an award-winning associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo who is widely regarded as an innovative literary scholar, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center (NHC), one of the greatest distinctions in the humanities field.
  • Gilbert Named Rockefeller Media Fellow
    5/18/00
    Charlene Gilbert, assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been named a 2000 Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow by the Rockefeller and MacArthur foundations.
  • UB Initiative To Provide Unique Experiences For Students, Research Services To WNY Companies And Not-For-Profits
    5/18/00
    Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.
  • New Certificate In Computational Science Will Boost Marketability Of UB Students
    5/18/00
    An advanced-certificate program in computational science designed to train science-and-engineering graduate students at the University at Buffalo in scientific computing has been approved by the New York State Education Department and the Chancellor of the State University of New York.
  • Bernstein’s Up To His Old Tricks: Knockin’ ’Em Dead In Wordland
    5/17/00
    A new book of old work by Charles Bernstein, David Gray Chair of Poetry at the University at Buffalo and one of the great irony producers of our age, is getting rave reviews from the national literary community.
  • UB’s EOC To Hold 27th Graduation Ceremony
    5/17/00
    Julian C. Johnson, a Buffalo attorney, concert producer, promoter and UB alumnus, will speak at the UB Educational Opportunity Center's 27th annual graduation ceremony, to be held at 7 p.m. May 24 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • Conference To Launch UB Treatment Program For Bipolar Disorder
    5/17/00
    The University at Buffalo has been selected as one of 20 clinical sites across the United States to provide a specialized treatment program for persons with bipolar disorder, known in lay terms as manic-depression.
  • Surgeon General to Commission 4 UB Medical School Grads
    5/16/00
    Four graduates of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will be commissioned into the armed forces by U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher immediately after the school's commencement ceremony on May 19.
  • Chemical from Venom of Chilean Tarantula Could Aid Treatment of Heart Attack, Other Major Diseases
    5/16/00
    University at Buffalo biophysicists have identified a component of venom from a very large, very hairy Chilean tarantula that blocks the action of ion channels that are responsible for cellular mechanical responses -- the cell's ability to feel. These channels or pores in the cell membrane -- called stretch-activated channels because stretching the membrane causes them to open and close -- have been implicated in functions as diverse as the senses of touch and hearing, muscle contraction and coordination, and blood pressure and volume regulation.
  • UB Study Suggests Ways To Improve Elementary Students’ Language-Arts Skills
    5/15/00
    Working with the students and teachers at Public School 40 in the City of Buffalo, a doctoral student in educational psychology at the University at Buffalo may have developed a solution to the situation faced by students who are having difficulty achieving the new writing standards required to pass New York State’s new English Language Arts Test.