News Releases

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

  • Eating Contaminated Great Lakes Sport Fish Does Not Inhibit Lactation, UB Study Finds
    9/7/99
    A study by University at Buffalo reproductive epidemiologists has found no association between eating DDE-contaminated sport fish from Lake Ontario and the length of lactation in nursing mothers.
  • UB Geographer Maps Out Buffalo Neighborhoods
    9/7/99
    Tucked away on an upper floor of the University at Buffalo's Undergraduate Library in the Science and Engineering Library (SEL) Map Collection room, geographer Ernest L. Woodson helps people find links and clues to the past that often only old maps can reveal. Woodson, an associate librarian in the SEL, is in charge of the University Libraries Map Collection, which he began developing in 1974 when it was made up of only 50,000 maps. Today, the prized collection includes more than 350,000 maps and aerial photos.
  • UB Academic-Review Web-Site Solution Places Second in National Contest
    9/7/99
    Frank D'Arrigo, assistant vice provost and director of undergraduate information services at the University at Buffalo, has been named first runner-up for "Best Web Site Solution" in the national 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards contest for a site he designed that ultimately could improve student retention at UB.
  • UB To Host Western New York Science and Technology Forum
    9/7/99
    The 31st annual Western New York Science and Technology Forum lecture series for area teachers is being held on Wednesdays through Jan. 12 at UB.
  • “This American Life” Host Ira Glass To Speak At UB
    9/7/99
    Ira Glass, idiosyncratic host and producer of the nationally syndicated radio show "This American Life," will present a program titled "Lies, Sissies and Fiascoes: Notes on Making a New Kind of Radio" at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Scientists Find Breast-Cancer Risk May Be Influenced By Gene That Regulates Serum Triglycerides
    9/6/99
    University at Buffalo researchers have shown for the first time that a variant of the apolipoprotein E (apoE) gene, known as apoE 4, may increase the risk of breast cancer by inhibiting the elimination of serum triglycerides from the bloodstream.
  • Troubled Children To Be Focus Of “UB At Sunrise” Program
    9/2/99
    Thomas T. Frantz, Ph.D., will discuss troubled children in a "UB at Sunrise" program at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 17 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
  • Researchers To Convene To Explore How Computers Can Better Read Handwriting, Music, Even Sanskrit
    9/2/99
    New ways of bridging the gap between the written word and the ability to access it electronically will be on the agenda at the fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) to be held in Bangalore, India on Sept. 20-22. More than three hundred researchers are expected to participate in the conference, which is being sponsored by the University at Buffalo, Pennsylvania State University, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens GmbH, Panasonic and others.
  • Miller Elected to Executive Committee of Conference on English Education
    8/31/99
    Suzanne Miller, Ph.D., associate dean in the Graduate School of Education, has been elected to serve a four-year term on the executive committee of the Conference on English Education.
  • 2 UB MBA Students Awarded M&T Bank Fellowships
    8/31/99
    Scot Andrew Millen of North Tonawanda and Karen H. Woodman of New York City are recipients of the M&T Bank fellowship awarded by the MBA program in the School of Management.