News Releases

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

  • UB Department Of Library And Information Studies To Match ALA Scholarships For Minorities
    2/21/00
    The Department of Library and Information Studies in the UB School of Information Studies will match up to six scholarships of $5,000 each offered by the American Library Association (ALA) for students entering UB's accredited Master of Library Science (MLS) program in Fall 2000.
  • UB Creative Craft Center Schedules Early Spring Workshops
    2/21/00
    The early-spring session of workshops presented by UB's Creative Craft Center will offer six-week courses for adults beginning March 20 in basic and intermediate pottery and stained glass, creative and color photography, knitting, crocheting, quilting and jewelry crafting.
  • RIA Receives NIH Grant To Assist Partners Of Problem Gamblers
    2/18/00
    Most people are ill-prepared to deal with the hardships brought on by a loved one's gambling problem. Researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) have begun a new project funded by a $649,283 grant from the National Institutes of Health that is aimed at studying the stress these people may be experiencing and the ways they've tried to deal with it.
  • UB Law School Holds Annual Auction To Fund Student Work In Public Service Law
    2/18/00
    The Buffalo Public Interest Law Program (BPILP), a nonprofit organization run by students in the Law School, will hold its annual auction to support student participation in summer public-service-law internships on Feb. 25.
  • UB Geologist To Use Data Gathered By Shuttle To Develop New Way To Map Shorelines, Detect Quake, Volcanic Activity
    2/18/00
    A project led by a University at Buffalo geologist involving the topographic mapper being flown by the space shuttle Endeavour could help to develop a new and far more accurate way to map features of shorelines and aid scientists in determining past and future volcanic and seismic activity in an area.
  • UB Researchers Develop Novel Way To Study Dynamics Of Receptor Proteins
    2/18/00
    Researchers at the University at Buffalo, in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, report a new way to study the dynamics of proteins as they pass through the transition state between inactive and active.
  • RIA’s “Diversity In Addictions” Seminar Series To Highlight Obesity, Gambling And the Rave Culture
    2/16/00
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will present national experts speaking on the topics of obesity, gambling and the rave culture during its Spring 2000 Seminar Series entitled "Diversity in Addictions."
  • Black Law Students To Host Event For High-School Students
    2/16/00
    Fifty juniors and seniors from several Buffalo high schools will get a preview of what it's like to attend law school during a Black History Month program to be held Feb. 25 at UB.
  • UB Dental School’s Program Goes Digital
    2/15/00
    When members of the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine's Class of 2004 arrive on campus this August, they will purchase no textbooks, no laboratory manuals, no workbooks. They will pick up no course outlines or lists of recommended reading. They will receive instead one inauspicious-looking compact disc, which will contain the full content of 90 textbooks in 28 topic and the curriculum for all four years of dental school, including course syllabi, class notes, laboratory manuals and lecture slides.
  • Gift To Fund Student Center In UB School Of Management
    2/15/00
    J. Grant Hauber, an alumnus of the University at Buffalo School of Management, has given $500,000 to the school for construction of a state-of-the-art student center.