News Releases

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

  • Orrange Named Associate Director Of Career Planning At UB
    1/19/00
    Robert R. Orrange has been named associate director of the Office of Career Planning and Placement at UB.
  • Lee Edits Special Issue Of Annals Of Internal Medicine Devoted To Link Between Time And Medicine
    1/18/00
    Richard V. Lee, M.D., University at Buffalo professor of medicine, is editor of a special millennium issue of Annals of Internal Medicine devoted to various interrelationships between time and medicine. The issue was published Jan. 4, 2000.
  • UB’s “Wednesdays At 4 Plus” Literary Program To Feature Major American Poets And Ethnopoetics Series
    1/18/00
    "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," the biannual literary series presented by the University at Buffalo Poetics Program, this spring will feature Pulitzer-Prize winner Jorie Graham, major American poets Clark Coolidge and Ronald Silliman, British deaf performance artist Aaron Williamson, and several prominent literary figures in the field of ethnopoetics.
  • UB, SUNY Albany Receive $2 Million For Clinical Trial Of Non-Drug Treatments For Irritable Bowel Syndrome
    1/18/00
    Researchers from the University at Buffalo's Functional GI Disorders Center and the University at Albany have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a clinical trial of two non-medical treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, one of the leading causes of work absenteeism.
  • Defender of Indigenous Rights Leaves His Law Library to UB
    1/17/00
    The Charles B. Sears Law Library at the University at Buffalo has received an important collection of books, manuscripts, documents, treaties and other material related to the defense of indigenous rights -- and in particular, of American Indian nations -- from the late Howard R. Berman. A distinguished scholar of international human-rights law, Berman, a 1971 graduate of the UB Law School, devoted his legal career to defending the interests of aboriginal peoples.
  • Tax Increase On Cigarettes Will Aid State Economies, Despite Cutting Tobacco Sales, UB Study Finds
    1/11/00
    New York State's 55-cent-per-pack increase in sales tax on cigarettes that will take effect March 1 will have a positive, over-all effect on the state economy, despite reducing cigarette sales, a study by a University at Buffalo health economist has reported.
  • Anderson Gallery Becomes a Part of UB
    1/7/00
    David K. Anderson has donated to the University at Buffalo the internationally respected Anderson Gallery, with an estimated worth of up to $3 million, and has established a $2 million charitable remainder trust to assist with gallery maintenance and exhibitions. Anderson, whose previous donations to UB include support for the Center for the Arts and the donation of nearly 300 paintings, sculptures and prints with a value totaling more than $1.5 million, also plans to transfer to the university a substantial part of the Anderson Gallery permanent collection.
  • KPMG Gift Benefits UB Department Of Accounting And Law
    1/6/00
    KPMG LLP, the accounting, tax and consulting firm, has donated $25,000 to support the Department of Accounting and Law in the UB School of Management.
  • UB Engineers Develop Unique Design To Seismically Modernize New Airport Terminal In Istanbul
    1/6/00
    It won't be apparent to passengers landing on today's (Thursday, Jan. 6) inaugural flight at Istanbul's brand new international airport, but the roof of the massive terminal building features a unique approach to seismically modernizing the structure following last summer's devastating quake.
  • Psychiatrists To Speak At UB At Sunrise Program
    1/6/00
    Carlos and Michele Pato, the internationally known husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists at UB whose research focuses on the role of genetics in certain mental disorders, will speak at the UB at Sunrise breakfast series, to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. Feb. 8 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North Campus.