News Releases

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

  • UB Alumni Association To Present Annual Awards April 7
    3/10/00
    The host of an award-winning National Public Radio program, a University at Buffalo neurologist internationally known for his research on childhood brain tumors and the founding dean of UB's School of Health Related Professions will be among 10 individuals honored at the UB Alumni Association's annual awards dinner on April 7.
  • Noted Author Michael Bérubé To Speak At UB April 7
    3/8/00
    Noted author Michael Bérubé, whose "Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family and an Exceptional Child" was selected one of the best books of 1996 by The New York Times and the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," will speak April 7 at UB.
  • UB Program To Provide Support For Kids Coping With Divorce
    3/8/00
    In an unusual partnership, a professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo and a Western New York judge have developed a program that will provide social support and education about divorce and teach coping skills -- free of charge -- to children of the nearly 3,000 divorce cases handled annually by Erie County courts.
  • UB Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the University at Buffalo have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.
  • UB’s Division Of Athletics Receives A Gift In Memory Of Alumnus, Devoted Sports Fan
    3/8/00
    Mindy Wasserman and her children, Jeffrey and Betsy Heymann, David and Lisa Heymann and Andrew Heymann, decided to make it a family affair when establishing a scholarship fund for the UB Division of Athletics in honor of their late husband and father, Walter Heymann, an alumnus and former UB football player.
  • UB’s EOC Moving To New Home At 100 Seneca Street
    3/8/00
    The University at Buffalo's Educational Opportunity Center, located at 465 Washington St. for the past 30 years, plans to move by early fall to offices in the former Empire of America Realty Credit Corp. building at 100 Seneca St., adjacent to the Erie Community College City Campus.
  • Woodard Named to Raymond Chair in Classics at UB
    3/3/00
    The new Andrew V.V. Raymond Chair in the UB Department of Classics is distinguished philologist and linguist Roger D. Woodard, author of a radical theory suggesting that the intellectual infancy of Western Civilization was far more complicated than we once thought.
  • Fund to Help Indochinese Students Pursue Study in U.S.
    3/3/00
    A 1999 trip to Cambodia -- a country whose economy and educational system was left in ruins by the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s -- has prompted a University at Buffalo administrator to create a fund to help meet an urgent educational need in Indochina, one of the poorest regions on earth.
  • June In Buffalo 2000 -- Spectacular Series Of Performances Will Mark 25th Anniversary Celebration
    3/3/00
    David Felder, artistic director of June in Buffalo, the pioneering festival for emerging composers of new music, promises "a spectacular festival this year, as deserves an event that has contributed so much to American music" as the festival, presented annually by the University at Buffalo Department of Music, marks its 25th anniversary in June,
  • UB Philosophers Awarded NEH Research Grants
    3/3/00
    Pablo DeGreiff, Ph.D., and Miriam Thalos, Ph.D., UB assistant professors of philosophy, have received prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.