News Releases

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

  • Goldhaber to Speak at Senior Alumni Luncheon
    8/31/99
    Gerald Goldhaber, associate professor in the Department of Communication, will give tips on how to be a savvy opinion poll-watcher when he speaks at a senior alumni luncheon at noon on Sept. 16 in the Center for Tomorrow on the UB North Campus.
  • Collins Heads UB Medical Alumni Association
    8/31/99
    Richard Laurence Collins, M.D., of Clarence, has been elected president of the UB Medical Alumni Association for 1999-2000.
  • UB Offers Advanced Honors Program For Juniors And Seniors
    8/27/99
    An Advanced Honors Program designed to draw new students into the honors category, as well as better serve current honors students in their junior and senior years, will begin this fall at the University at Buffalo, administrators with the University Honors Program have announced.
  • New Art Exhibit To Feature Printmaking At UB
    8/27/99
    New print work by UB undergraduate and graduate students, recent alumni and participants in ePIC (experimental Print Imaging Center), will be on display Sept. 9-30 in the UB Art Department Gallery in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
  • UB Investigates How Technology Can Enhance Learning And Lower Instructional Costs
    8/27/99
    The University at Buffalo this fall will begin a two-year project to design and pilot a course in information technology that is expected to enhance the quality of teaching and increase learning while reducing instructional costs by 46 percent.
  • UB Sets Schedule For “Wednesdays At 4 Plus” Literary Series
    8/27/99
    "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS," the bi-annual literary series presented by the Poetics Program at UB, has announced its Fall 1999 schedule of readings and performances. Set to open Sept. 15, it will feature several notable American, French, Canadian and English poets, as well as faculty members from the program.
  • Former President Bush To Speak At UB On Sept. 29
    8/27/99
    Former U.S. President George Bush will kick off the University at Buffalo's 12th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in Alumni Arena on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Memorial Service Planned For Professor Victor Pastena
    8/23/99
    A memorial service will be held Sept. 2 in UB’s Newman Center chapel on Frontier Road on the North Campus for Victor S. Pastena, 52, Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting and Law in the UB School of Management. Pastena died unexpectedly July 20 in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City while awaiting a liver transplant.
  • UB Engineer Says Turkey's 'Twin Quake' Occurred Along A Fault Similar To San Andreas Fault
    8/23/99
    The "twin quake" that struck western Turkey last week occurred on a fault that is a "textbook example" of a transform fault like California's San Andreas Fault, according to an engineering seismologist at the University at Buffalo.
  • Engineers Find Volcanic Mineral’s Affinity For Strontium-90 Makes It Ideal Choice For West Valley Cleanup
    8/23/99
    Starting this month, the same material cat-lovers use to sanitize their pets' litter boxes will be used to remove strontium-90 from groundwater in a pilot project at the West Valley Demonstration Project that is based on successful testing of the technology at the University at Buffalo.