News Releases

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

  • Molecular Geneticist Named UB Biochemistry Chair
    4/3/00
    Kenneth M. Blumenthal, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry and microbiology at the University at Cincinnati, has been named chair of the UB Department of Biochemistry, effective Aug. 1.
  • Stuttering Workshop To Be Held At UB
    4/3/00
    A workshop to help teens and adults who stutter assess their communication strengths and learn how to improve their effectiveness as communicators will be part of a conference to be held April 29 at UB.
  • A Lean, Mean Electronic Poetry Machine Proves April Is Not the Cruelest Month
    3/30/00
    April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
  • M&T Contribution Moves UCI Housing Program Forward
    3/30/00
    A contribution of $31,000 a year for two years from M&T Bank will allow the University Community Initiative to move forward with its housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resale program in the University Heights neighborhood of Buffalo.
  • Historian Wins Fellowship To Study Medieval Period In Japan
    3/28/00
    Thomas Keirstead, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $65,000 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
  • Daniel Libeskind, World-Renowned “Architect Of Silence” Will Present Slide Lecture At UB On April 7
    3/28/00
    "Vessel for a nation's remorse," "the museum without an exit," "well of quietude," "the presence of absence" -- these are some of the terms that have described the experiential and daring architectural works of Daniel Libeskind, the brilliant, iconoclastic and often controversial figure in international architectural practice and urban design, who will speak at UB on April 7.
  • Grateful Surgeon And Alumna Gives Scholarship Gift To UB’s School Of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences
    3/24/00
    University at Buffalo alumna Adele M. Gottschalk, M.D. '67, has given a $225,000 gift to support scholarships for students in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Perceptual Psychologist Stephen Palmer To Speak At UB
    3/24/00
    Award-winning perceptual psychologist Stephen E. Palmer, whose inquiry into the nature of visual perception has aroused interest across many disciplines, will present the 2000 UB Distinguished Speaker Lecture in Cognitive Science from 3:30-5 p.m. April 4 in 20 Knox Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • Delinquency To Be Topic Of “UB At Sunrise” Lecture
    3/24/00
    UB sociologist and author Simon I. Singer will discuss delinquency and its control in Amherst -- one of America's safest cities -- at a "UB at Sunrise" community breakfast lecture to be held at 7:30 a.m. April 12 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North Campus.
  • UB Immunologist To Present Witebsky Lecture
    3/24/00
    Internationally known UB immunologist and professor emeritus Ernst H. Beutner will deliver the 30th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture on April 6 in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.