News Releases

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

  • Radford Receives Fellowships from NEH, ACLS
    7/13/99
    Gail E. Radford, assistant professor of history at UB, has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the American Council of Learned Societies.
  • Shulman Receives Lodge Prize from Adelphi University
    7/13/99
    Lawrence Shulman, Ed.D., dean of the UB School of Social Work, has been named the 1999 recipient of the Richard Lodge Prize, awarded by the Adelphi University School of Social Work.
  • Bruckenstein Named a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society
    7/12/99
    Stanley Bruckenstein, A. Conger Goodyear chair and professor of chemistry at UB, has been named a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
  • UB Parent-Program Coordinator Offers Advice to Parents of Soon-to-Be College Students
    7/9/99
    Toby Shapiro, University at Buffalo parent-program coordinator, has one major piece of advice for parents of this fall's crop of new college students: "Always keep the lines of communication open."
  • The Buffalo News Donates $50,000 to WBFO
    7/7/99
    The Buffalo News has donated $50,000 to the Local Program Fund of WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB, to allow the station to upgrade equipment and hire another reporter/producer.
  • From God to Golf: UB Priest Offers Golfers’ Mass
    7/6/99
    It's 6:45 on a glorious Sunday morning and golfers are exchanging greetings -- but not on the links. They're in the University at Buffalo's Newman Center chapel, where Rev. Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher, director of the Catholic Campus Ministry at the university, offers a Golfers' Mass every Sunday during the summer.
  • ASA Recognizes UB Research That Claims Trying Kids As Adults Doesn’t Deter Violent Juvenile Crime
    7/2/99
    Polls show that large segments of the public think the solution to serious youth crime is to lock up violent juveniles and throw away the key. However, research by University at Buffalo criminologist Simon Singer has indicated that getting "tough" with violent juvenile offenders by sending them into the adult criminal-court system does not deter their behavior.
  • UB Law Alumna Receives MacArthur “Genius” Grant
    7/2/99
    University at Buffalo Law School alumna Sara Horowitz, who created a new organization called Working Today to provide benefits and services to people working in temporary, part-time, contract or independent employment, has been awarded a prestigious "genius" fellowship from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  • High-School Students Join UB Supercomputer Program
    6/30/99
    Although they won't be making movies, a select group of local high-school students attending a summer program at the University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research will be doing their homework on an SGI, Inc. Origin2000 Server, similar to the one used in the creation of "Toy Story" and "Antz."
  • Gift to Endow Fellowship for Doctoral Students in English
    6/28/99
    A bequest to the UB College of Arts and Sciences is providing a competitive edge for the Department of English in attracting top-notch doctoral students through increased fellowship money.