News Releases

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

  • UB Geologist’s Study Of Volcanoes On Earth May Help Determine If There Ever Was Life On Mars
    3/15/00
    Was there ever life on Mars? That question may one day be answered in part by research now being conducted by a University at Buffalo geologist who studies volcanoes on earth.
  • UB Blue And White Club Drive Surpasses Goal, Raises $369,342 In Scholarship Pledges
    3/15/00
    Members and volunteers of UB’s Blue and White Club broke their $300,000 goal for this year's athletic scholarship fund drive with a record-breaking total of $369,342 pledged during the month-long drive.
  • Gift From Myricom Speeds Up UB’s Supercomputer
    3/15/00
    You can never have a computer that's too fast. That's the thinking of University at Buffalo researchers in the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR), who received a $139,680 equipment donation that will speed up processor communications nearly 100-fold. Myricom, Inc. has donated leading-edge Myrinet interfaces and switches that have been integrated into the CCR dual-boot Linux/Solaris Sun Microsystems cluster.
  • UB Geologists Find Evidence That Upstate New York Is Criss-Crossed By Hundreds Of Faults
    3/14/00
    Mention New York State's Finger Lakes region or its Southern Tier, and most people don't automatically think of earthquake country. But these upstate areas may be about to gain a reputation for greater seismic potential, according to recent research by a team of University at Buffalo geologists.
  • Student Advancement Program Honors Two From UB
    3/13/00
    The president and adviser of the University Student Alumni Board (USAB) at UB won top awards at a recent meeting of District II of the Association of Student Advancement Programs.
  • UB Professor Takes Philosophy Into The Kitchen
    3/13/00
    Philosophers historically have paid little attention to the sense of taste, dismissing it as an inferior sense and one that is too idiosyncratic to be worthy of consideration. But a University at Buffalo professor breaks new philosophical ground and offers interesting food for thought in a recent book that reveals the symbolic and aesthetic value of taste and uncovers why this bodily sense largely has been ignored for so long in the realm of philosophy.
  • Moral Philosopher O’Neill To Deliver Hourani Lectures At UB
    3/13/00
    Timely and undying issues about ethics and politics will be analyzed by Onora O'Neill, one of the world's most respected moral philosophers, during the six-part George Hourani Lectures in Moral Philosophy, to be held next month at UB.
  • Belgian Theater Company To Be In Residence At UB
    3/10/00
    Belgium's Theatre Company of the University of Liege (TULg) will visit UB next month to present a free public performance in French of the play "Kafka," an adaptation of "Communication a une academie," a witty, absurdist short story by Franz Kafka.
  • UB Thespians Only U.S. Participants In Theater Festival
    3/10/00
    The Department of Theatre and Dance in the UB College of Arts and Sciences will be the only U.S. participant in the prestigious Les Fetes Theatricales du Suroit International Theatre Festival, which will be held next month at the College de Valleyfield in Montreal.
  • Witherspoon Named UB Men’s Basketball Coach
    3/10/00
    The University at Buffalo named Reggie Witherspoon its head men’s basketball coach today (March 10) following a three-month national search.