News Releases

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

  • East Meets East In UB Exhibitions Representing Contradictory Ideologies
    2/28/00
    Lockwood Memorial Library on the UB North Campus is sponsoring two consecutive exhibitions that represent opposing ideologies at play in territories ruled by the People's Republic of China.
  • “Virtual Village” Helps UB Social-Work Students Learn To Solve Neighborhood Problems
    2/25/00
    Students in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are hitting the streets of several urban neighborhoods this semester as they take a close look at issues faced by Buffalo communities. And they'll only have to look as far as their PCs to do it.
  • Amherst Saxophone Quartet To Entertain At UB Luncheon
    2/24/00
    The globe-trotting Amherst Saxophone Quartet will combine music and humor at the UB Senior Alumni Luncheon, to be held at noon March 9 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • Israeli Politician To Speak At Wasserman Conference At UB
    2/24/00
    Yosef Livne, deputy consul general for the Consul General of Israel in New York, will discuss American-Israeli relations at 1:45 p.m. March 19 in the Student Union Theatre on the UB North Campus as part of the 14th annual Wasserman Conference.
  • George Stephanopoulos To Speak At UB
    2/24/00
    George Stephanopoulos, ABC-TV news political analyst, author and former top aide and communications director in the Clinton Administration, will speak at 8 p.m. March 22 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Prasad To Discuss Photonics Research At “UB At Sunrise”
    2/24/00
    Paras Prasad, Ph.D., executive director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at UB, will discuss the institute's groundbreaking research at the "UB at Sunrise" breakfast March 7.
  • Rice Named To Red Cross Diversity Council
    2/24/00
    Donna S. Rice, Ph.D., associate vice president for student affairs at UB, has been appointed to a one-year term on the 12-member National Diversity Advisory Council of the American Red Cross.
  • UB Electrical Engineer Wins Prestigious Research Award
    2/23/00
    Alexander N. Cartwright, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo, is the recipient of a prestigious Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award.
  • Black Mathematicians, Other Scientists Find Community At UB Web Site
    2/23/00
    Even in 2000, African-Americans who are studying to be -- or already are -- mathematicians face a lonely proposition: only about one-quarter of 1 percent of all mathematicians in the United States are black. But many of them are finding a thriving community at the unique Web site created and maintained by a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo.
  • Dental Pioneer Elliot Gale Dies At 61
    2/21/00
    Elliot N. Gale, Ph.D., professor emeritus of behavioral science in the UB School of Dental Medicine and a pioneer in the use of biofeedback in chronic jaw muscle pain, died unexpectedly at his North Buffalo home on Jan. 14. Gale, 61, was in the process of retiring to a home in New Mexico.