News Releases

Avoid the hustle and bustle of holiday mall crowds and find truly unique gifts at the annual UB Holiday Print Sale Benefit to be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Center for the Arts Atrium on the North Campus.

"Cutting Taxes, Creating Jobs: The Decline and Revival of Upstate New York" will be the topic of a presentation by Stephen Kagann, Ph.D., chief economist to Gov. George Pataki, Nov. 10 at UB.

James C. Hansen, 62, of Amherst, emeritus professor of counseling and educational psychology at UB and a major national figure in the field of counseling psychology, died Monday (Nov. 1, 1999) in Kaleida Health's Millard Fillmore Hospital after a long illness.

During the past several weeks, four armed robberies have occurred in the Ellicott Complex, two in Fargo, one in Red Jacket and one on the Terrace.

UB research that may help pave the way to restoring hearing to millions around the world will be discussed at a "UB at Sunrise" community breakfast program, to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. Nov. 16 in the Sheraton Four Points Hotel on Walden Avenue in Cheektowaga.

UB’s Millard Fillmore College (MFC) will host a free career seminar and information session for prospective adult students from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 13 in 215 Student Union on the UB North Campus.

The UB Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society won the prestigious Key Chapter Award at the Golden Key's international convention, held recently in Orlando, Fla.

Richard Lee is a veteran "trekker." The founder and director of the University at Buffalo Medical Trek Program has made numerous trips overseas since the mid-1980s delivering medical treatment to indigenous populations all across the globe. But a 28-day mission last summer to India with 17 others to deliver medical treatment to the people of the Himalayas was the most harrowing by far.

Students in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance this semester are getting the chance to learn from and work with one of Poland's most distinguished directors, Jan Maciejowski, who is currently in-residence at UB from the Academy of Drama in Kraków.

The complicated process of revitalizing Western New York's many brownfields could be enhanced and accelerated significantly through the formation of a new, nonprofit organization designed to facilitate such projects, according to a report by a new University at Buffalo group, the Brownfield Action Project (BAP).